Gutenberg Quotes

Ever since Gutenberg, every dynasty, every political leader, every major religion, has recognized that to control the media is to have a powerful instrument for controlling the values and behavior of a population.

The information highway will transform our culture as dramatically as Gutenberg's press did the Middle Ages.

The Internet, arguably the fastest world-changing invention since the Gutenberg printing press, has become the core of our social and business lives.

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.

I betrayed Gutenberg for McLuhan long ago.

It's not progress to take books off shelves. If one more person says this [ebooks] is the new Gutenberg, I will probably commit homicide, because the whole point of Gutenberg was to put books on shelves, not to take them off.

Human intelligence discovered a way of perpetuating itself, one not only more durable and more resistant than architecture, but also simpler and easier. Architecture was dethroned. The stone letters of Orpheus gave way to the lead letters of Gutenburg. The book will kill the edifice.

Movable type seemed magical to the monks who were illuminating manuscripts and copying texts. Certainly e-books seem magical to me.

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

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

Gutenberg made everybody a reader. Xerox makes everybody a publisher.

I wouldn't be surprised if history records Tim Berners-Lee as the second Gutenberg.

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

We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.

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

Anyone familiar with the marvels of the Worldwide Web can hardly fail to see that we have entered a new era in communications on a scale perhaps comparable to the invention of the Gutenberg press.

the day Johannes Gutenberg finished his wooden printing press in 1440. Western civilization turned onto a path toward more efficient, accessible communication of knowledge.]

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

Typography fostered the modern idea of individuality, but it destroyed the medieval sense of community and integration.