You can’t have an industrial revolution, you can’t have democracies, you can’t have populations who can govern themselves until you have literacy. The printing press simply unlocked literacy. – Howard Rheingold
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. – Bre Pettis
We have always moved with this approach of sharing and educating people with what they can unlock with 3D printing. – Bre Pettis
I used to do calligraphy, and I’m afraid that has lapsed, but I’ve always been interested in book printing. – Alice Waters
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. – Bill Brandt
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. – Geraldine Brooks
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. – Nate Silver
The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is. – E. F. Schumacher
That is the biggest form of bullying ever, the paparazzi. Printing lies, making accusations, it’s just bullying. – Mila Kunis
The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare. – Marshall McLuhan
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. – James Nasmyth
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. – Jerry Mathers
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. – Ruth Bernhard
The common intuition is that e-books should be cheap because they aren’t physical – no printing, no shipping. – Virginia Postrel
