Best 9 quotes in «gutenberg quotes» category

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

I betrayed Gutenberg for McLuhan long ago.

I read more books for research purposes, whether its a fictionalized biography of Johannes Gutenberg or a stack of urban fantasies.

I owe all my knowledge to the German inventor, Johannes Gutenberg!

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

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

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.

It might be argued that genuine spontaneity is not really possible or desirable so long as printed scores of great works exist. All modern musicians are, for better or worse, prisoners of Gutenberg.

Manuscript editions didn't immediately die out with the printing explosion that burst across Europe in the 1460s and 1470s. Manuscripts continued to be produced into the 16th century, many decades after presses had spread to most minor cities in Western Europe.