“I used to do calligraphy, and I’m afraid that has lapsed, but I’ve always been interested in book printing.”
“I’m interested in businesses that take digital bits and turn them into interfaces for physical atoms. I’m also interested in drones, Bitcoin, and 3D printing.”
“I consider it essential that the photographer should do his own printing and enlarging. The final effect of the finished print depends so much on these operations.”
“Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.”
“We started MakerBot in 2009 and made a conscious decision to educate people with the possibilities they could do with 3D printing and share with people what is possible.”
“We have always moved with this approach of sharing and educating people with what they can unlock with 3D printing.”
“Unlike sitting at a computer screen, printing is very direct and hands-on.”
“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.”
“Break up the printing presses and you break up rebellion.”
“The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.”
“I think having a national system that tracks who owns guns is fine. I don’t think we need to be printing it on the Internet.”
“Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.”
“TV is bigger than any story it reports. It’s the greatest teaching tool since the printing press.”
“EO 11110 did not order the printing of Silver Certificates. It ordered the amendment of a previous executive order so that the United States Code would authorize or ’empower’ the Secretary of the Treasury to issue Silver Certificates if the occasion should arise.”
“China’s history is marked by thousands of years of world-changing innovations: from the compass and gunpowder to acupuncture and the printing press. No one should be surprised that China has re-emerged as an economic superpower.”
“I knew I was going to be a journalist when I was eight years old and I saw the printing presses rolling at the Sydney newspaper where my dad worked as a proofreader.”
“Our printing press is the Internet. Our coffee houses are social networks.”
“Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.”
“The next episode of 3D printing will involve printing entirely new kinds of materials. Eventually we will print complete products – circuits, motors, and batteries already included. At that point, all bets are off.”
“3D printing is already shaking our age-old notions of what can and can’t be made.”
“In course of time the Brothers Cowper removed the manufacture of their printing machines from London, to Manchester. There they found skilled and energetic workmen, ready to carry their plans into effect.”
“The Internet, arguably the fastest world-changing invention since the Gutenberg printing press, has become the core of our social and business lives.”
“The idea of printing out something that’s as scary as a tumor into its concrete form was something that spoke to me – there is something very liberating about that idea.”
“I have several computer companies. One of them I have a program for wide-format printing. I have a beauty program. So I have several different programs that I own for printing.”
“The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare.”
“That is the biggest form of bullying ever, the paparazzi. Printing lies, making accusations, it’s just bullying.”
“I run a printing press from where I get my bread. If at all I get any butter, it comes from acting.”
“The Protestant Reformation had a lot to do with the printing press, where Martin Luther’s theses were reproduced about 250,000 times, and so you had widespread dissemination of ideas that hadn’t circulated in the mainstream before.”
“Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.”
“In traditional 3D printing, the gantry size poses an obvious limitation for the designer who wishes to print in larger scales and achieve structural and material complexity.”
“3D printing has digitized the entire manufacturing process.”
“3D printing will massively reduce the cost of certain products as the cost of labor is removed.”
“Most of my books have caused distribution and printing problems in the past.”
“We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg’s great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.”
“I was a very, very careful printer when I used 8-by-10 film. I probably spent more time on printing than anything else. The more the prints were appreciated, the more time I spent on them.”
“We have to remember there is not a big printing press in Washington that continually prints money over and over.”
“The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander.”
“The common intuition is that e-books should be cheap because they aren’t physical – no printing, no shipping.”
“What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.”
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