Top 380 Printing Quotes & Sayings

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

Could an explosion in a printing shop produce a dictionary?

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. Provide you could pay and read, what was on the shelves in the new bookshops was yours for the taking. The speed with which printing presses and their operators fanned out across Europe is extraordinary. From the single Mainz press of 1457, it took only twenty-three years to establish presses in 110 towns: 50 in Italy, 30 in Germany, 9 in France, 8 in Spain, 8 in Holland, 4 in England, and so on.

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

Printing money is merely taxation in another form.

If you think about it, the printing press allowed everyone to print books - it democratised the printing of information. For the first time, we could all print.

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

In one sense, the Internet is like the discovery of the printing press, only it's very different. The printing press gave us access to recorded knowledge. The Internet gives us access, not just to knowledge, but to the intelligence contained in people's crania, access to the intelligence of people on a global basis.

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

How can we reinterpret 3-D printing in a way that suggests a new design language?

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

I think my printing to this day looks like the printing right out of a comic book. Actually, I always wanted to be in a comic book. I watched cartoons when I was a kid, too, and both comics and cartoons lit fire in my imagination. This realm holds a lot of interest for me, a lot of passion for me. So to be comic-ized, yeah, that's cool.

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

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

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

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

The 3D-printing technology has been developing at a very rapid pace.

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

Facebook can spend and talk endlessly to defend itself so long as it keeps printing money.

In the world's history certain inventions and discoveries occurred, of peculiar value, on account of their great efficiency in facilitating all other inventions and discoveries. Of these were the art of writing and of printing - the discovery of America, and the introduction of Patent-laws. The date of the first ... is unknown; but it certainly was as much as fifteen hundred years before the Christian era; the second-printing-came in 1436, or nearly three thousand years after the first. The others followed more rapidly - the discovery of America in 1492, and the first patent laws in 1624.

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

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

Printing and transporting paper is very expensive, and e-books eliminate the expensive four-color printing, the higher quality paper, the ocean shipping, the customs clearance, the inventory, answering the telephone, writing up the orders, picking, packing and shipping and managing all of these functions. So we eliminate a huge number of costs and the chance that those books won't sell.

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.

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.

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.

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

Some newspapers dispose of their garbage by printing it.

Let's say I am a chocoholic and I eat tons of chocolate a day. A hundred thousands of tons a day. I have this craving, but I can't afford it, so I get a printing press, and I start printing money, and I print billions and billions to buy chocolate. So I create this boom in the chocolate industry, so stores are running out of chocolate. So they have demand, so chocolate makers expand. Cocoa growers expand. You create this great boom. But now the feds arrest me and shut me down. And now there is a depression in the chocolate industry. That's what happens with the monetary policy.

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

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

Unix in particular is very poor at network printing.

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

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

3D printing has digitized the entire manufacturing process.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Printing money - is it really the answer? ... If we just print a million dollars for every man, woman, and child in the country and handed it to them, won't that fix everything? Because in order to really look at printing - I like to take everything to the extreme.

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

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

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

Ink is the blood of the printing-press.

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

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

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

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

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

'Legends Walking' was the first of my books to go to a second printing based on strong initial orders, but much of that printing never found its audience.

Anyone who has studied the history of technology knows that technological change is always a Faustian bargain: Technology giveth and technology taketh away, and not always in equal measure. A new technology sometimes creates more than it destroys. Sometimes, it destroys more than it creates. But it is never one-sided. The invention of the printing press is an excellent example. Printing fostered the modern idea of individuality but it destroyed the medieval sense of community and social integration.

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

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

I used to do calligraphy, and I'm afraid that has lapsed, but I've always been interested in book printing.