A Collection of Printing Quotes

Current advances in technology – including the online presence of commercial printing services – has thoroughly democratized the business of printing.  All it takes nowadays is Internet access and diligent Google search skills to be able to come up with a set of printing quotes for careful comparison.

Printing quotes are a necessary feature or service provided by printing companies to give you a working figure for your printing project. Be it a business or a postcard. Such printing quotes can easily be obtained through emails, phone calls or a simple online visit where a price generator would instantly show you the printing quote for your specified set of product specifications.

You can easily obtain this and more with online printing. Yes, printing has definitely gone a long since it has taken the plunge to make itself more accessible to almost everyone.  Looking back, how has it gone that printing - once the exclusive domain of the learned clergy - has become accessible to Joe and Jane Q. Public?

Quotes on Printing (Really, it is different from the term printing quotes)
Here are a number of quotes taken from widely diverse sources about the sociological impact of printing.

"The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, one sometimes forgets which" - J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie, Scottish writer best known for giving the world the green-clad, eternally youthful Peter Pan and his adventures with hook-handed pirates, mermaids and Red Indians.

"The greatest inventions were produced in the times of ignorance, as the use of the compass, gunpowder, and printing" - Jonathan Swift, Irish writer and satirist best known for giving the world Lemuel Gulliver and his exploits with the Lilliputians, Brobdingagians and Yahoos.

"The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare." - Marshall McLuhan, Canadian sociologist noted for his pioneering studies on media theory as well as coining the phrases "the medium is the message" and "global village".

"What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind." - Wendell Phillips, American activist, champion of social rights for Native Americans and African Americans.

"Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years." - Henry David Thoreau, American writer and philosopher whose works were influential in the civil rights and environmental movements.

“The three great elements of modern civilization - gunpowder, printing, and the Protestant religion.” - Thomas Carlyle, Scottish philosopher whose major work, "Sartor Resartus" has been acknowledged as a unique masterpiece that anticipated the Existential and Postmodern movements among others.  

"The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is." - E. F. Schumacher, German-born British economist and author of the book "Small is Beautiful" best known for his advocacy of human-scale, decentralized and appropriate technologies as well as his espousal of wholistic Buddhist philosophies on Western economic models.   
"Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few." - John Masefield, British poet laureate from 1930 to 1967.