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The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander.
T. E. Lawrence
Press
Weapon
Printing
Printing Press
Greatest
Commander
Greatest Weapon
Modern
The invention of the printing press was one of the most important events in human history.
Ha-Joon Chang
History
Events
Invention
Important
Press
Most
Printing
Printing Press
Human
The Most Important
Human History
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.
Howard Rheingold
Democracy
You
Revolution
Unlocked
Press
Simply
Until
Industrial
Industrial Revolution
Printing
Printing Press
Govern
Literacy
Themselves
Who
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?
Jules Verne
Art
Great
Science
Humanity
Complicated
Simple
Everything
Telegraph
Press
Steam
Printing
Printing Press
Greatest
Discoveries
Than
Electric
Engine
Less
Compass
Gravitation
Science, as illustrated by the printing press, the telegraph, the railway, is a double-edged sword. At the same moment that it puts an enormous power in the hands of the good man, it also offers an equal advantage to the evil disposed.
Richard Jefferies
Good
Man
Science
Good Man
Evil
Power
Enormous
Telegraph
Press
Puts
Advantage
Equal
Also
Printing
Printing Press
Offers
Hands
Same
Double-Edged
Double-Edged Sword
Moment
Illustrated
Railway
Sword
Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.
Bill Keller
Technology
Every
Press
Some
Price
Printing
Printing Press
Including
The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.
E. F. Schumacher
Blessing
Sometimes
Press
Printing
Printing Press
Greatest
Greatest Blessing
Times
Forgets
Modern
Curse
Modern Times
Either
Which
TV is bigger than any story it reports. It's the greatest teaching tool since the printing press.
Fred W. Friendly
Teacher
Tool
Press
TV
Since
Printing
Printing Press
Greatest
Than
Reports
Any
Bigger
Story
Teaching
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.
Gary Locke
History
Marked
Innovations
Press
Thousands
Thousands Of Years
Gunpowder
Superpower
Economic
No-One
Printing
Printing Press
Surprised
Years
China
Should
Compass
Acupuncture
The more material there is, the more need there is for filters. You don't need a printing press anymore, but you do need people who know how to cultivate sources, double-check information and put the brand of legitimacy on it.
Howard Rheingold
You
People
Filters
Press
More
Put
Know
Printing
Printing Press
How
Material
Cultivate
Sources
Brand
Legitimacy
Anymore
Information
Who
Need
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.
Howard Rheingold
People
Face
Telephone
Consist
Press
See
Face-To-Face
Only
Networks
Fact
Since
Because
Printing
Printing Press
Been
Artificial
In Fact
Social
Social Networks
Media
Extending
As soon as the printing press started flooding Europe with books, people were complaining that there were too many books and that it was going to change philosophy and the course of human thought in ways that wouldn't necessarily be good.
James Gleick
Good
Change
People
Complaining
Thought
Too
Books
Philosophy
Press
Ways
Soon
Course
Printing
Printing Press
Were
Going
Human
Europe
Many
Flooding
Human Thought
Necessarily
Started
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.
John Katzman
Education
Service
Great
Technology
Internet
First
Analysis
Press
Ways
Easier
Cost
Cost-Effective
Both
Could
Allow
Students
Since
Most
Schools
Make
Printing
Printing Press
Doing
Effective
American
Which
Much
Lower
Many
Now
Twice
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.
Joshua Foer
Memories
Photography
Made
Few
Our
Press
Easier
Invented
Computer
Outsource
Over
Alphabet
Printing
Printing Press
Human
Essentially
Human Capacity
Scroll
Capacity
Us
Series
Fundamental
Millennia
Technologies
Last
The printing press did something really big for the world when everyone could get books in their hands and read.
Kevin Systrom
World
Big
Everyone
Books
Press
Something
Could
Read
Printing
Printing Press
Get
Did
Hands
Really
The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare.
Marshall McLuhan
First
Everybody
Press
Immortality
Shakespeare
Except
Mistaken
Printing
Printing Press
Engine
I run a printing press from where I get my bread. If at all I get any butter, it comes from acting.
Nana Patekar
Press
Run
Printing
Printing Press
Get
Any
Where
Bread
Acting
Butter
Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.
Nate Silver
Luxury
Before
Books
Press
Printing
Printing Press
Were
Item
Basically
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.
Rebecca MacKinnon
Heroes
Revolution
Press
Neither
Would
Protestant
Without
Printing
Printing Press
Were
Nor
Reform
Reformation
American
Happened
American Revolution
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.
Robert Darnton
Word
Internet
Power
Mouth
Press
Only
Had
Printing
Printing Press
Revolutionaries
American
Word-Of-Mouth
Believed