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.
Jaron LanierMots clés writers authors printing-press
With the development of the printing press, not only could text be mass-produced quickly, it could also be mass-produced quickly and incorrectly.
The Bureau ChiefsMots clés humor history literacy journalism printing-press
Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some other line of work, since modern communications put him or her into daily competition with nothing but the world's champions.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Mots clés television community treasure competition modern giftedness champions satellite printing-press
What gunpowder did for war, the printing press has done for the mind.
Wendell PhillipsMots clés books education mind guns gunpowder printing-press
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