Printing Quotes

Could an explosion in a printing shop produce a dictionary?

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

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

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

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

Break up the printing presses and you break up rebellion.

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

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.

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

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

Unix in particular is very poor at network printing.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

My parents didn't make a lot of money. My dad was not a high school graduate - he didn't have a career as such; he was a printing salesman essentially for most of his working life.

There are some bright spots, to be sure, but the internet is still in a Wild West phase, as was the case during the early age of the printing press as well.

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

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.

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

None of the problems that caused the crises in Europe and America have been resolved. They have been delayed and expanded by more debt and more money printing and will lead to more and worse crises.

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

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.

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.

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.

I got a massive overdose of gamma radiation from the Xerox machine and just printing call sheets, you know? By the time I stepped in front of the camera, I was very comfortable. It was great.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.