Quotes about Printing

We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed. Votes: 5

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion. Votes: 4

Printing currency for foreigners to buy is the best racket a government can get into. Votes: 4

TV is bigger than any story it reports. It's the greatest teaching tool since the printing press. Votes: 4

I've been bragging for over 25 years that my first New York Times bestseller was a book I copied from the U.S. Government Printing Office! Votes: 4

Printing money is merely taxation in another form. Votes: 3

Break up the printing presses and you break up rebellion. Votes: 3

Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years. Votes: 3

What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind. Votes: 3

Printing links the present with forever. It carries personal identity into realms unknown. Votes: 3

Some want prayer in school, some want condoms. Printing prayers on condoms satisfies nobody. Votes: 3

Printing money is the last resort of desperate governments when all other policies have failed. Votes: 3

The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing. Votes: 3

That is the biggest form of bullying ever, the paparazzi. Printing lies, making accusations, it's just bullying. Votes: 3

Think, when we talk of horses, that you see them Printing their proud hoofs i' the receiving earth. Votes: 3

I was in a Printing-house in Hell, and saw the method in which knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation. Votes: 3

Printing money creates inflation, which weakens an economy. Unfortunately, this kind of common-sense thinking never seems to penetrate academic circles. Votes: 3

You must understand printing lies about Republican candidates is OK. It's called vetting. Printing the truth about liberals - that's called 'swift-boating'. Votes: 3

If we think to regulat Printing, thereby to rectifie manners, we must regulat all recreations and pastimes, all that is delightfull to Man. Votes: 3

Printing money is merely taxation in another form. Rather than robbing citizens of their money, government robs their money of its purchasing power. Votes: 3

Printing demands a humility of mind, for the lack of which many of the fine arts are even now floundering in self-conscious and maudlin experiments. Votes: 3

The greatest Inventions were produced in Times of Ignorance; as the Use of the Compass, Gunpowder, and Printing; and by the dullest Nation, as the Germans. Votes: 3

Printing ballots in multiple languages costs millions of dollars every year. It also discourages immigrants from integrating into American society and gaining the benefits that come from speaking English. Votes: 3

We're not a manufacturer, or an airline, but we do use energy. Printing and publishing newspapers, producing films, broadcasting television signals, operating 24-hour newsrooms. It all adds carbon to the atmosphere. Votes: 3

The thing that was most interesting to me was getting my first prints back from the printer and realizing photography doesn't end with the click of a button, it starts there. Printing is so exciting. Votes: 3

Good photography is not about Zone Printing or any other Ansel Adams nonsense. It's just about seeing. You either see or you don't see. The rest is academic. Photography is simply a function of noticing things. Nothing more. Votes: 3

The World's a Printing-House, our words, our thoughts, Our deeds, are characters of several sizes. Each soul is a Compos'tor, of whose faults The Levites are Correctors; Heaven Revises. Death is the common Press, from whence being driven, We're gather'd, Sheet by Sheet, and bound for Heaven. Votes: 3

Ink is the blood of the printing-press. Votes: 2

Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market. Votes: 2

Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations. Votes: 2

The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare. Votes: 2

Transforms old print To zigzag manuscript, and cheats the eyes Of gallery critics by a thousand arts. Votes: 2

The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is. Votes: 2

We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books. Votes: 2

The jour printer with gray head and gaunt jaws works at his case, He turns his quid of tobacco, while his eyes blur with the manuscript. Votes: 2

Every school boy and school girl who has arrived at the age of reflection ought to know something about the history of the art of printing. Votes: 2

I consider it essential that the photographer should do his own printing and enlarging. The final effect of the finished print depends so much on these operations. Votes: 2

For me the printing process is part of the magic of photography. It's that magic that can be exciting, disappointing, rewarding and frustrating all in the same few moments in the darkroom. Votes: 2

In course of time the Brothers Cowper removed the manufacture of their printing machines from London, to Manchester. There they found skilled and energetic workmen, ready to carry their plans into effect. Votes: 2

The first meal was an object lesson of much variety. My father produced several kinds of food, ready to eat, without any cooking, from little tin cans that had printing all over them. Votes: 2

My second book, Follow Me Down had some success, got good critical notices, went into a second printing and things like that, but Shiloh was by far the most successful of those first five novels. Votes: 2

He who first shortened the labor of Copyists by device of Movable Types was disbanding hired armies and cashiering most Kings and Senates, and creating a whole new Democratic world: he had invented the Art of printing. Votes: 2

The ideas keep going, you have the material, you cut because there's a limit to the space allowed to you. And the space is limited because of some other constraints that have to do with money or printing or whatever. Votes: 2

3D printing has digitized the entire manufacturing process. Votes: 1

You can't stop people printing what they want to print. Votes: 1

Our printing press is the Internet. Our coffee houses are social networks. Votes: 1

The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander. Votes: 1

The invention of the printing press was one of the most important events in human history. Votes: 1

You can't have an industrial revolution, you can't have democracies, you can't have populations who can govern themselves until you have literacy. The printing press simply unlocked literacy. Votes: 1

Another time factor is output: proofing and printing. That is, getting your work out of the computer and onto paper and having it satisfy you. It can be time consuming and expensive. Votes: 1

I think it may not be a coincidence that the rise of printing and book publication and literacy and the phenomenon of best sellers all preceded the humanitarian reforms of the Enlightenment. Votes: 1

The world got enamored with smartphones and tablets, but what's interesting is those devices don't do everything that needs to be done. Three-D printing, virtual-reality computing, robotics are all controlled by PCs. Votes: 1

Humans have always used our intelligence and creativity to improve our existence. After all, we invented the wheel, discovered how to make fire, invented the printing press and found a vaccine for polio. Votes: 1

Would the Protestant Reformation have happened without the printing press? Would the American Revolution have happened without pamphlets? Probably not. But neither printing presses nor pamphlets were the heroes of reform and revolution. Votes: 1

The Protestant Reformation had a lot to do with the printing press, where Martin Luther's theses were reproduced about 250,000 times, and so you had widespread dissemination of ideas that hadn't circulated in the mainstream before. Votes: 1

Ever since the arrival of printing - thought to be the invention of the devil because it would put false opinions into people's minds - people have been arguing that new technology would have disastrous consequences for language. Votes: 1

When we developed written language, we significantly increased our functional memory and our ability to share insights and knowledge across time and space. The same thing happened with the invention of the printing press, the telegraph, and the radio. Votes: 1

What the printing press is to Christianity in the 16th century, that's what the Internet is doing to Islam now. It has opened up the monopoly over the interpretation of Islam that used to solely belong to the religious class. Votes: 1

I think we are waiting for an e-book that even non-techies can be comfortable with. From my point of view, the biggest change is that I don't have to spend most of the day printing out and packaging a manuscript. I think I almost miss that. Votes: 1

Over the last few millennia we've invented a series of technologies - from the alphabet to the scroll to the codex, the printing press, photography, the computer, the smartphone - that have made it progressively easier and easier for us to externalize our memories, for us to essentially outsource this fundamental human capacity. Votes: 1

The Internet is the first technology since the printing press which could lower the cost of a great education and, in doing so, make that cost-benefit analysis much easier for most students. It could allow American schools to service twice as many students as they do now, and in ways that are both effective and cost-effective. Votes: 1

How quiet the writing, how noisy the printing. Votes: 0

Unix in particular is very poor at network printing. Votes: 0

Some newspapers dispose of their garbage by printing it. Votes: 0

Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price. Votes: 0

Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press. Votes: 0

Could an explosion in a printing shop produce a dictionary? Votes: 0

You will never solve the American problems just by printing money. Votes: 0

It is production that creates purchasing power, not the printing press! Votes: 0

If printing money helped the economy, then counterfeiting should be legal Votes: 0

Gutenberg's invention of printing is the greatest event-the mother of revolution Votes: 0

Many trees could be saved if the government stopped printing tax forms. Votes: 0

Social media is the greatest boon to journalism since the printing press. Votes: 0

Unlike sitting at a computer screen, printing is very direct and hands-on. Votes: 0

The Reformation was cradled in the printing-press, and established by no other instrument. Votes: 0

Most of my books have caused distribution and printing problems in the past. Votes: 0

Gutenberg, your printing press has been violated by this evil book, Mein Kampf! Votes: 0

The art of printing secures us against the retrogradation of reason and information. Votes: 0

The very idea of printing my diary has always struck me as completely superficial. Votes: 0

The problem is, photographic dyes and printing inks aren't as good as paint, actually. Votes: 0

People like me, who care about printing, constitute the tiniest lunatic fringe in the nation. Votes: 0

It's complicated.' 'So's quantitative easing. But I still get that it means printing money. Votes: 0

The coming of the motion picture was as important as that of the printing press. Votes: 0

If another Messiah was born he could hardly do so much good as the printing-press. Votes: 0

3D printing is already shaking our age-old notions of what can and can't be made. Votes: 0

For me, typography is a triangular relationship between design idea, typographic elements, and printing technique. Votes: 0

Writing, printing, and the Internet give a false sense of security about the permanence of culture. Votes: 0

Even with the sacred printing press, we got erotic novels 150 years before we got scientific journals. Votes: 0

3D printing will massively reduce the cost of certain products as the cost of labor is removed. Votes: 0

Nobody that ever left their own country ever wrote anything worth printing. Not even in the newspapers. Votes: 0

Ask yourself: would you be comfortable printing everything your employees, customers & partners have to say about your culture? Votes: 0

The common intuition is that e-books should be cheap because they aren't physical - no printing, no shipping. Votes: 0

[The PlayStation 2 is a] historic, a mass-market appliance that fundamentally changes society in the way the printing press did. Votes: 0

As a culture moves from orality to writing to printing to televising, its ideas of truth move with it. Votes: 0

I felt like an undeveloped photograph that he was printing, my image rising to the surface under his gaze. Votes: 0

We have always moved with this approach of sharing and educating people with what they can unlock with 3D printing. Votes: 0

We become, after the arrival of the printing press in general, more attentive more attuned to contemplative ways of thinking. Votes: 0

Each money-printing exercise brings about unintended consequences. These unintended consequences are higher inflation rates than had no money been printed. Votes: 0

Since the discovery of printing, knowledge has been called to power, and power has been used to make knowledge a slave. Votes: 0

The invention of printing radically changed ways of thinking ¾ not just how things are communicated, but what can be thought Votes: 0

No one for a moment can pretend that printing is so great a discovery as writing, or algebra as a language. Votes: 0

Typographic style is founded not on any one technology of typesetting or printing, but on the primitive yet subtle craft of writing. Votes: 0

Do not think me fussy when I specify tidiness. It is essential... In printing, remember that cleanliness and order wait upon success. Votes: 0

Comparatively, tattooing is not the hideous custom which it is called. It is not barbarous merely because the printing is skin-deep and unalterable. Votes: 0

The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments; its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to poetry. Votes: 0

Satires and lampoons on particular people circulate more by giving copies in confidence to the friends of the parties, than by printing them. Votes: 0

If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man. Votes: 0

The printing press had a very liberatory effect that meant individuals - small groups could produce radical pamphlets - could use it for organizing. Votes: 0

At some point, the dollar has to give. You can't just keep printing money, and monetizing debt, and buying bonds, without the dollar imploding. Votes: 0

No amount of toying with shades of print or with printing papers will transform a commonplace photograph into anything other than a commonplace photograph. Votes: 0

All those commodities are going to have to rise in value as we are in short supply and we are printing too much money. Votes: 0

Credit expansion and money printing hasn't filtered much to ordinary people. It's boosted asset markets, real estate and stocks. So well-to-do-people have done very well. Votes: 0

I think that the tying of the Montenegrin economy with the euro is a much better option than the adventure of printing our own currency. Votes: 0

The printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency- showing wise kinds and blissful martyrs- while bankers wept and peasants starved. Votes: 0

It's so easy to print in the Midwest. You're saving months in shipping and customs, so we have started printing a number of books there. Votes: 0

The American revolutionaries believed in the power of the word. But they had only word of mouth and the printing press. We have the Internet. Votes: 0

While the art of printing is left to us science can never be retrograde; what is once acquired of real knowledge can never be lost. Votes: 0

I think having a national system that tracks who owns guns is fine. I don't think we need to be printing it on the Internet. Votes: 0

I enjoy the art, and I enjoy drawing. I think my printing to this day looks like the printing right out of a comic book. Votes: 0

The impact of television on our culture is. . . indescribable. There's a certain sense in which it is nearly as important as the invention of printing. Votes: 0

In a world where wealth is growing, you can get away with printing money. Doubling the debt over the next 20 years is not a problem. Votes: 0

Printers shall be liable to legal prosecution for printing and publishing false facts injurious to the party prosecuting: but they shall be under no other restraint. Votes: 0

Blessings be the inventor of the alphabet, pen and printing press! Life would be -- to me in all events -- a terrible thing without books. Votes: 0

I'm not going to read any of these magazines. I mean, because they've just got too much to lose by printing the truth. You know that.... Votes: 0

By the Nineties, so many people were moonlighting and creating their own professional identities that China generated a brisk new business in the printing of business cards. Votes: 0

The world has been printing books for 450 years, and yet gunpowder still has a wider circulation. Never mind! Printer's ink is the greater explosive: it will win. Votes: 0

So far as the mere imparting of information is concerned, no university has had any justification for existence since the popularization of printing in the fifteenth century. Votes: 0

The coming of the printing press must have seemed as if it would turn the world upside down in the way it spread and, above all, democratized knowledge. Votes: 0

Nowadays, with digital printing, it’s so easy to make everything perfect, which is not always a good idea. Sometimes the mistakes are really what make a piece. Votes: 0

Technological civilizations don't last long. You're all right until you get a printing press. Then a race starts between technology and common sense. And maybe technology always wins. Votes: 0

We started MakerBot in 2009 and made a conscious decision to educate people with the possibilities they could do with 3D printing and share with people what is possible. Votes: 0

It's possible to walk out of your house with "local" footsteps, printing them one by one till they go on to make "global" consequences! Go, make a safe journey! Votes: 0

I don't mean to beat a made-in-America drum, but I would be lying if I said it doesn't feel somehow right to be printing books in the U.S. Votes: 0

University printing presses exist, and are subsidised by the Government for the purpose of producing books which no one can read; and they are true to their high calling. Votes: 0

I love the writing. I love the idea of typing and seeing it on the computer and printing it out myself and, you know, moving sentences around. I like that. Votes: 0

Similar to computer technology in the '60s, 3-D printing is a universal technology that has the potential to revolutionize our life by enabling individuals to design and manufacture things. Votes: 0

I have two very cogent reasons for not printing any list of subscribers; one, that I have lost all the names, the other, that I have spent all the money. Votes: 0

Men emerge pale from the little printing plant at four sharp, ghosts for an instant, blinking, until the outdoor light overcomes the look of constant indoor light clinging to them. Votes: 0

My dad didn't graduate from high school, ended up being a printing salesman, probably never made more than $8,000 a year. My mom sold real estate and did it part time. Votes: 0

Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few. Votes: 0

The discovery of printing in the middle of the fifteenth century implied the beginning of a return to a type of civilization dominated by the eye rather than the ear. Votes: 0

Every time the Fed implements 'quantitative easing,' a.k.a. printing more money, two things go up: taxes and inflation. When taxes and inflation go up, more jobs are lost. Votes: 0

Nothing could be more misleading than the idea that computer technology introduced the age of information. The printing press began that age, and we have not been free of it since. Votes: 0

Universal coding for computers is sought that uses relative addresses and a pseudocode and that assembles and translates, printing out a directory of final addresses of key commands, variables, and constants. Votes: 0

And you can't have a prosperous economy when the government is way overspending, raising tax rates, printing too much money, over regulating and restricting free trade. It just can't be done. Votes: 0

By 1833 the largest publisher in America, Harper and Company, boasted one horse-powered printing press and seven hand presses while the American Bible Society owned 16 new state-of-the-art, steam-driven presses and 20 hand presses. Votes: 0

My dad never graduated high school. He was a printing salesman. We lived in a two-bedroom, one-bath house in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. We weren't rich - but we felt secure. Votes: 0

I have several computer companies. One of them I have a program for wide-format printing. I have a beauty program. So I have several different programs that I own for printing. Votes: 0

What gunpowder did for war, the printing-press has done for the mind; and the statesman is no longer clad in the steel of special education, but every reading man is his judge. Votes: 0

I've been really impressed at some of the investments that I've seen in community college and technical schools that are training young people for these jobs in 3D printing and the like. Votes: 0

In occupied Iraq, the introduction of new paper money took almost a year, 20 or so Boeing 747s, the mobilisation of the U.S. military's might, three printing firms, and hundreds of trucks. Votes: 0

Everything great in science and art is simple. What can be less complicated than the greatest discoveries of humanity - gravitation, the compass, the printing press, the steam engine, the electric telegraph? Votes: 0

The U.S. government has a technology, called a printing press (or today, its electronic equivalent), that allows it to produce as many U.S. dollars as it wishes at no cost. Votes: 0

It is always and everywhere the province of the central bank to monetize any spending, the government's or the private sector's, by printing enough money to pay for it in depreciated dollars. Votes: 0

People's social networks do not consist only of people they see face to face. In fact, social networks have been extending because of artificial media since the printing press and the telephone. Votes: 0

In these days the invention of printing, and the diffusion of knowledge, render historical calumnies a little less dangerous: truth will always prevail in the long run, but how slow its progress! Votes: 0

Images proliferate. Am I wrong in being reminded of printing money in a period of wild inflation? Do we know what we are doing? Are we able to evaluate what we have done? Votes: 0

When you have a perfect free market, it's difficult to predict the future. But when you have a market that is disturbed by government manipulations and money-printing, it's impossible to make any predictions. Votes: 0

The instant that any government obtains a monetary printing press, it becomes a deeply dishonest government, empowered to rob people by stealth. A government with the power to print money knows no limits. Votes: 0

The Nasdaq bubble and crash were followed by the real estate bubble then subprime crash, which led to the unprecedented printing of trillions of dollars in an attempt to prevent a global depression. Votes: 0

Hippo in a skirt: this was a comic reference to one of Solomon's principal wives, the one from Moab. Childish? Yes. But in the days before printing we had limited opportunities for satire. Votes: 0

I knew I was going to be a journalist when I was eight years old and I saw the printing presses rolling at the Sydney newspaper where my dad worked as a proofreader. Votes: 0

Book reviewing dates only to the eighteenth century, when, for the first time, there were so many books being printed that magazines - they were new, too - started printing essays about them. Votes: 0

Paper money is made of cotton, and I'm long cotton, by the way. One reason I'm long cotton is because Dr. Bernanke is out there running the printing presses as fast as he can. Votes: 0

Once the idea is accepted that money is something whose supply is determined simply by the printing press, it becomes impossible for the politicians in power to resist the constant demands for further inflation. Votes: 0

Technological change is discontinuous. The monks in their scriptoria did not invent the printing press, horse breeders did not invent the motorcar, and the music industry did not invent the iPod or launch iTunes. Votes: 0

The next episode of 3D printing will involve printing entirely new kinds of materials. Eventually we will print complete products - circuits, motors, and batteries already included. At that point, all bets are off. Votes: 0

In 1736, Franklin's Pennsylvania Gazette printed an apology for its irregular appearence because its printer was "with the Press, labouring for the publick Good, to make Money more plentiful." The press was busy printing money. Votes: 0

Architecture is the printing-press of all ages, and gives a history of the state of the society in which it was erected, from the cromlech of the Druids to those toy-shops of royal bad taste Votes: 0

They're constants, aren't they?" ... "Books are. That's why we like them so much. They seem immutable. They're not, of course. Not from the author's first draft to the tenth printing, but they seem like it. Votes: 0

What a feat of transmission: the emotive powers of the book, with no local habitation, pass safely from writer to reader, unmangled by printing and binding and shipping, renewed and available whenever we open it. Votes: 0

Television was the most revolutionary event of the century. Its importance was in a class with the discovery of gunpowder and the invention of the printing press, which changed the human condition for centuries afterward. Votes: 0

China's history is marked by thousands of years of world-changing innovations: from the compass and gunpowder to acupuncture and the printing press. No one should be surprised that China has re-emerged as an economic superpower. Votes: 0