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“What these critics forget is that printing presses in themselves provide no guarantee of an enlightened outcome. People, not machines, made the Renaissance. The printing that takes place in North Korea today, for instance, is nothing more than propaganda for a personality cult. What is important about printing presses is not the mechanism, but the authors.”

Writers Authors Printing Press

Book:You Are Not a Gadget

Source: You Are Not a Gadget

“Up till now it has been thought that the growth of the Christian myths during the Roman Empire was possible only because printing was not yet invented. Precisely the contrary. The daily press and the telegraph, which in a moment spreads inventions over the whole earth, fabricate more myths (and the bourgeois cattle believe and enlarge upon them) in one day than could have formerly been done in a century.”

Media Myth Roman Empire Printing Press Newspaper Christian Myths

Book:Marx-Engels-Jahrbuch 2003. Die Deutsche Ideologie: Artikel, Druckvorlagen, Entwürfe, Reinschriftenfragmente und Notizen zu "I. Feuerbach" und "II. Sankt Bruno"

Source: Marx-Engels-Jahrbuch 2003. Die Deutsche Ideologie: Artikel, Druckvorlagen, Entwürfe, Reinschriftenfragmente und Notizen zu "I. Feuerbach" und "II. Sankt Bruno"

“A printing press took the thoughts from someone’s mind and inked them on to a piece of paper anyone might read. It was a kind of magic. A magic to alter the world.”

Reading Magic Printing Press Enchantée

Book:Enchantée

Source: Enchantée

“With the development of the printing press, not only could text be mass-produced quickly, it could also be mass-produced quickly and incorrectly.”

Humor History Journalism Literacy Printing Press

Book:Write More Good: An Absolutely Phony Guide

Source: Write More Good: An Absolutely Phony Guide

“The internet is the most important tool for disseminating information we've had since the invention of the printing press. Unfortunately, it's also one of the best ways of stealing or suppressing information and for putting out misinformation.”

Internet Censorship Misinformation Hacking Printing Press World Wide Web Online Communication Information Security Internet Quotes Suppressing Discussion

Author:Stewart Stafford

“In French printer's jargon, cliche (which mimicked the sound of a mold striking molten metal) was a synonym for stereotype, which in turn evolved from the Greek for "solid impression." A stereotype was a printing plate that duplicated typography and that was used by the printer in lieu of the original. So a cliche is a word or phrase used over and over again in lieu of the original.”

Writing Originality Stereotype Cliche Printing Printing Press On Writing Word Origins

Book:Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wickedly Effective Prose

Source: Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wickedly Effective Prose

“This is the cusp of an age at least as exciting and as brimful of potential as the early days of the printing press.”

Books Revolution Digital Publishing Printing Press Ebooks Era

Author:Sara Sheridan

“An age in rapid transition is one which exists on the frontier between two cultures and between conflicting technologies. Every moment of its consciousness is an act of translation of each of these cultures into the other. Today we live on the frontier between five centuries of mechanism and the new electronics, between the homogeneous and the simultaneous. It is painful but fruitful. The sixteenth century Renaissance was an age on the frontier between two thousand years of alphabetic and manuscript culture, on the one hand, and the new mechanism of repeatability and quantification, on the other.”

Culture Renaissance Printing Press

Book:The Gutenbery Galaxy

Source: The Gutenbery Galaxy

“..the kind of influence printing has had on modern sensibility… : the shattering of the intellectual experience into uniform and repeatable units, the establishment of a sense of homogeneity and continuity that generated, at a distance of centuries, the assembly line, and presided over the ideology of the mechanical age, as well as the cosmology of infinitesimal calculation.”

Language History Printing Printing Press Gutenberg Press

Book:Travels in Hyperreality

Source: Travels in Hyperreality

“The printing press has published more ghosts and spirits than god has.”

God Newspapers Printing Press

Book:Plotless

Source: Plotless

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