Printing Quotes

The palest ink is better than the best memory.

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.

knowledge began freely replicating and quickly assumed a life of its own.

How could I make a little book, when I have seen enough to make a dozen large books?

Though an angel should write, still 'tis devils must print.

Creating a book and creating a collection involve a lot of editing.

Could an explosion in a printing shop produce a dictionary?

Among the earliest modern commodities were printed books … and their shrinking price and increased availability were far more historically momentous than, say, the spread of the internal combustion engine.

The printing of books is forbidden.

Shall we have recourse to the art of printing? But this has not destroyed property or aristocracy or corporations or paper wealth in England or America, or diminished the influence of either; on the contrary, it has multiplied aristocracy and diminished democracy.

When self-interest inclines a man to print, he should consider that the purchaser expects a pennyworth for his penny, and has reason to asperse his honesty if he finds himself deceived.

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

The world has been printing books for 450 years, and yet gunpowder still has a wider circulation. Never mind! Printer's ink is the greater explosive: it will win.

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

If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.

I've always taken apart calculators and anything I can get my hands on when I was younger. When I was around 12 - like, 6th grade - my parents always had around Mac computers because my mom is a teacher. So I'd always be playing around with all the crazy applications and making banners and printing things out and always into graphic design.

The connection between authors, printers, and booksellers must be kept up.

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.

Printing means democracy because it brings knowledge within the reach of the common people, and knowledge, in the long run, is sure to make good its claim to power.

I use printers to make prints of the images that I am creating. And I try to have that surface kind of replicated in the painting.

Publishing in a way doesn't have a lot to do with writing, and writing doesn't have a lot to do with publishing.

The United States is the only nation in the world whose entire culture was formed entirely in the age of print.

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

The danger of unbounded liberty [of printing], and the danger of bounding it, have produced a problem in the science of Government, which human understanding seems hitherto unable to solve.

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