Gutenberg's Quotes

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

Bill Gates

#2. 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.

L. Neil Smith

#3. The net's future is far from assured, and history offers much warning. Within a few decades of Gutenberg's creation, princes and priests moved to restrict the right to print books.

Vint Cerf

#4. It is interesting to note how often a technological development - such as Gutenberg's - promotes rather than eliminates that which it is supposed to supersede.

Anna Quindlen

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

Robert M. Hutchins

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

Victor Hugo

#7. With the development of the Internet ... we are in the middle of the most transforming technological event since the capture of fire. I used to think that it was just the biggest thing since Gutenberg, but now I think you have to go back farther.

John Perry Barlow

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

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#9. I read more books for research purposes, whether it's a fictionalized biography of Johannes Gutenberg or a stack of urban fantasies.

Jim C. Hines

#10. [In plotting earthquake measurements] the range between the largest and smallest magnitudes seemed unmanageably large. Dr. Beno Gutenberg then made the natural suggestion to plot the amplitudes logarithmically.

Charles Francis Richter

#11. Before Gutenberg, libraries were small
the Cambridge University library had only 122 volumes in 1424, for instance; after Gutenberg literacy became widespread.

Larry Stone

#12. Incidentally, the usual designation of the magnitude scale to my name does less than justice to the great part that Dr. Gutenberg played in extending the scale to apply to earthquakes in all parts of the world.

Charles Francis Richter

#13. 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.

Jeanette Winterson

#14. Gutenberg and Richter were very great men.

Frank Press

#15. The world of visual perspective is one of unified and homogeneous space. Such a world is alien to the resonating diversity of spoken words. So language was the last art to accept the visual logic of Gutenberg technology, and the first to rebound in the electric age.

Marshall McLuhan

#16. 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.

Donal Henahan

#17. 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.

Ian Lamont

#18. There was magic, and there was magic. Thanks to Gutenberg, I could no longer pull wands, potions, and light sabers out of books, but when it came to research, give me a well-stocked library and I was a goddamned Merlin.

Jim C. Hines

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

Marshall McLuhan

#20. I betrayed Gutenberg for McLuhan long ago.

Chris Marker

#21. If physical mobility is an essential condition of freedom, the bicycle has probably been the greatest single device for achieving what Marx called the full realization of the possibilities of being human invented since Gutenberg, and the only one without obvious drawbacks.

Eric Hobsbawm

#22. We are in the middle of the biggest revolution in reading and writing since the advent of the Gutenberg press.

Sara Sheridan

#23. 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.

Randal Marlin

#24. Give me twenty-six soldiers of lead and I will conquer the world.

Johannes Gutenberg

#25. GREAT EXPECTATIONS [1867 Edition] by Charles Dickens [Project Gutenberg Editor's Note: There is also another version of this work etext98/grexp10.txt scanned from a different edition]

Anonymous

#26. It is a press, certainly, but a press from which shall flow in inexhaustible streamsThrough it, God will spread His Word. A spring of truth shall flow from it: like a new star it shall scatter the darkness of ignorance, and cause a light heretofore unknown to shine amongst men.

Johannes Gutenberg

#27. Charles Dickens [Project Gutenberg Editor's Note: There is also another version of this work etext98/grexp10.txt

Anonymous

#28. I'm called an oral historian, which is something of a joke. Oral history was here long before the pen, long before Gutenberg and the printing press. The difference is I have a tape recorder in my hand.

Studs Terkel

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

Jeff Bezos

#30. This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online

Anonymous

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

Friedrich Kellner

#32. It is interesting to note that Copernicus was German/Polish, Luther was German, and Gutenberg was German.

George Friedman