Top 11 Gutenberg Quotes

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.

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

Long, Musician, Gutenberg

"Music View; Whatever Happened To Spontaneity In Performance?" by Donal Henahan, www.nytimes.com. May 13, 1984.

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

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Knowledge, Science, Gutenberg

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

Bill Gates

Age, Gutenberg, Culture

Bill Gates, Nathan Myhrvold, Peter Rinearson (1996). “The Road Ahead”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

I betrayed Gutenberg for McLuhan long ago.

Chris Marker

Betrayal, Long Ago, Gutenberg

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

Marshall McLuhan

Gutenberg, Machines, Made

Quoted in Wash. Post, 15 May 1977

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

Victor Hugo

Mother, Events, Gutenberg

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

Book, Progress, Gutenberg

Source: americanlibrariesmagazine.org

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

Communication, Gutenberg, Eras

Randal Marlin (2002). “Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion”, p.284, Broadview Press