Printing Quotes

Some newspapers dispose of their garbage by printing it.

The freedom of the press should be inviolate.

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

Ink is the blood of the printing-press.

How quiet the writing, how noisy the printing.

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

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

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

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

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

Printing money is merely taxation in another form.

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

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

Could an explosion in a printing shop produce a dictionary?

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

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

I am myself a gentleman of the press, and have no other escutcheon.

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.

Unix in particular is very poor at network printing.

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

Most governments, not all of them, but most, certainly don't want their citizens using gold. They want them in the currency that they are creating. When they are debasing money, or printing money, they are spending it and they want it to have as much value as possible when they originally spend it. Of course once they spend it, it will lose value for them and everyone else that holds it. But they need demand for their currency. They need as many people as possible holding it and transacting it. The more people that use gold, the harder it makes it.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

What have the Germans gained by their boasted freedom of the press, except the liberty of abusing each other as they like?

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

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

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

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.

First book was handwritten, then the printing press, now we've got our Kindles. To be able to push a button and a dictionary comes up. And then, at my age, that I can make the letters any size I want, and that I can carry all of William Shakespeare, all of Gogol, all of Franz Kafka in my handbag? You've got to love it.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Photographs are but one link in a potentially endless chain of reduplication; themselves duplicates (of both their objects and, in a sense, their negatives), they are also subject to further duplication, either through the procedures of printing or as objects of still other photographs.

It is beginning to be doubtful whether Parliament and Congress sit in Westminster and Washington, or in the editorial rooms of the leading journals,--so thoroughly is everything debated before the authorized and responsible debaters get on their legs.

When you make a Blu-ray, its not the same as the print process was. You have little or no control over any print that was ever made. You are a victim of the 35mm printing process.

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