What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.

— Wendell Phillips

Get black on white.

— Guy de Maupassant

There's no point in writing my kind of stuff, when they're printing that kind of stuff. So I gave up and started drinking.

— Charles Bukowski

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

— Matthew Pearl

Technically, you cannot really own a book you bought; you can only own the sheets of paper your copy is printed on; unless, of course, you are the book’s publisher.

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

If e-book readers were invented before print books, (petty things such as) the smell of ink would have been some people’s only reason for not abandoning e-books.

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

TV is bigger than any story it reports. It's the greatest teaching tool since the printing press.

— Fred W. Friendly

The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.

— Douglas C. Engelbart

It's possible to walk out of your house with 'local' footsteps, printing them one by one till they go on to make 'global' consequences! Go, make a safe journey!

— Israelmore Ayivor

Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.

— Bill Keller