Printing Quotes - Page 11

• 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.

  Samuel Johnson

  Names, Two, Lists

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 4, p. 111 (May 1781)

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• 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.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Apology, Printing Money, Pennsylvania

  "Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went". Book by John Kenneth Galbraith. Chapter V, "Of Paper," p. 54, 1975.

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

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Discovery, Slave, Used

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• The great dividing line between books that are made to be read and books that are made to be bought is not the purely modern thing it seems. We can trace it, if we try, back to the first printing-presses.

  Agnes Repplier

  Book, Trying, Lines

  Agnes Repplier (1908). “A Happy Half-century: And Other Essays”

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• 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.

  Wendell Phillips

  War, Reading, Men

  Wendell Phillips (1864). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.40

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• The press is the exclusive literature of the million; to them it is literature, church, and college.

  Wendell Phillips

  College, Church, Literature

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• The effect of the discovery of printing was evident in the savage religious wars of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Application of power to communication industries hastened the consolidation of vernaculars, the rise of nationalism, revolution, and new outbreaks of savagery in the twentieth century.

  Harold Innis

  Religious, War, Communication

  Harold Innis (1999). “The Bias of Communication”, p.67, University of Toronto Press

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• Blest be the gracious Power, who taught mankind
  To stamp a lasting image of the mind!
  Beasts may convey, and tuneful birds may sing,
  Their mutual feelings, in the opening spring;
  But Man alone has skill and power to send
  The heart's warm dictates to the distant friend;
  'Tis his alone to please, instruct, advise
  Ages remote, and nations yet to rise.

  George Crabbe

  Spring, Heart, Men

  George Crabbe (1858). “The Poetical Works of George Crabbe”, p.60

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• We have now in our possession three instruments of civilization, unknown to antiquity. These are the art of printing; free representative government; and, lastly, a pure and spiritual religion, the deep fountain of generous enthusiasm, the mighty spring of bold and lofty designs, the great sanctuary of moral power.

  Edward Everett

  Spiritual, Art, Spring

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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• Central bankers always try to avoid their last big mistake. So every time there's the threat of a contraction in the economy, they'll over stimulate the economy, by printing too much money. The result will be a rising roller coaster of inflation, with each high and low being higher than the preceding one.

  Milton Friedman

  Mistake, Trying, Bankers

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• The quintessential exercise of free speech in a culture supposedly built on that concept and dedicated to it, the Internet's development is as historically important to humanity perhaps even more so as Gutenberg 's invention of the printing press.

  L. Neil Smith

  Exercise, Humanity, Important

  "Keep Your Filthy Hands Off The Internet". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. June 20, 2010.

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• Unix in particular is very poor at network printing.

  Michael Sweet

  Poor, Unix, Particular

  "Engineers approve standardization of Internet Printing Protocol" by Carolyn Duffy Marsan, www.cnn.com. July 12, 2000.

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• There are no checks and balances if the gov is wrong. If a private entrepreneur makes a mistake, he goes bankrupt, the losses are cut; if he bets wrong, he loses; if the gov bets wrong, they just get bigger, they just appropriate more money. It's a bottomless pit, because they either get it from the tax payers or run it off a printing press.

  Peter Schiff

  Running, Mistake, Cutting

  Authors@Google Event, 2009.

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• 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.

  Saul Gorn

  Keys, Finals, Use

  "Planning Universal Semi-Automatic Coding". Book by Saul Gorn, 1954.

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• The full impact of printing did not become possible until the adoption of the Bill of Rights in the United States with its guarantee of freedom of the press. A guarantee of freedom of the press in print was intended to further sanctify the printed word and to provide a rigid bulwark for the shelter of vested interests.

  Harold Innis

  Impact, Rights, Printed Word

  Harold Innis (1999). “The Bias of Communication”, p.56, University of Toronto Press

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• I am surprised at all the people in the high-tech industry focused on "making money"... If that's all they want to do, they should have a $100 printing press in their basements and they will truly "make money." Instead, if we focus all that energy on innovation, we'll change the world for the best.

  Philippe Kahn

  Should Have, People, Focus

  Commencement speech for University of California Santa Cruz students, 1996.

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• Seldom can two such epoch-making events have occurred in successive years as happened then. In 1453 the Turks stormed Constantinople and finally destroyed the Greek Empire, driving out Greek scholars, who carried the knowledge of Greek language and literature to the western world; and in 1454 the first document known to us appeared from the printing press at Mainz.

  Frederic G. Kenyon

  Two, Years, Greek

  "The Story Of The Bible" by Frederic G. Kenyon. Ch. IV, From manuscript To Print, p. 41-42, 1949.

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• I think future generations will see the invention of the Internet as having been as important as the invention of the printing press. It’s the democratizing tool of all tools. As long as no one can control the flow of information, then freedom always has a chance.

  Marianne Williamson

  Thinking, Long, Important

  "Marianne Williamson on Consciousness, Women and Politics". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 9, 2012.

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

  Jane Jacobs

  Writing, Giving, Culture

  Jane Jacobs (2007). “Dark Age Ahead”, p.5, Vintage

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• The press should be the voice of the people, not of party.

  James Ellis

  Party, Voice, People

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• 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!

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Running, Long, Historical

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• Filmmaking materials are in the hands of more people now than ever before. I would like to think that the more people have these tools, the more people will learn how to use them, it's another argument I would argue for, personally, for art's education. Because there are kids who aren't that literate in screen language and they've got to know how people select shots, how people edit audio, how people combine things to make what they see on the screen. It would be like the 15th century or the 16th century in Germany, and somebody amends a printing press and you don't know how to read and write.

  Murray Horwitz

  Art, Kids, Writing

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Given all the money printing that is going on globally - and not just in the US - and given that the total credit as a percent of the advanced economies is now 30% higher than in 2007 before the crisis hit, I think that gold is a good insurance.

  Marc Faber

  Thinking, Gold, Credit

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• 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 wouldnt necessarily be good.

  James Gleick

  Philosophy, Book, Europe

  "TMI: We've Always Had Too Much Information (And We've Survived Just Fine)" by James Gleick, bigthink.com.

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

  Alan Sugar

  People, Want, Print

  "Sir Alan will see you now". Interview with Sam Wollaston, www.theguardian.com. March 24, 2009.

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