Unlike sitting at a computer screen, printing is very direct and hands-on.

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.

My specialty as a collector is books that almost have value. When I love a book, I don't buy the first edition, because those have become incredibly expensive. But I might buy a beat-up copy of the second edition, third printing, which looks almost exactly the same as the first edition except that a couple of typos have been fixed.

The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.

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.

Psychological edge is massive in sprinting.

3D printing has digitized the entire manufacturing process.

I think that the tying of the Montenegrin economy with the euro is a much better option than the adventure of printing our own currency.

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

I've really been studying lyrics, printing out lyrics to songs I love and reading them like a letter.

The world got enamored with smartphones and tablets, but what's interesting is those devices don't do everything that needs to be done. Three-D printing, virtual-reality computing, robotics are all controlled by PCs.

Facebook can spend and talk endlessly to defend itself so long as it keeps printing money.

Break up the printing presses and you break up rebellion.

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.

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.

The Internet, arguably the fastest world-changing invention since the Gutenberg printing press, has become the core of our social and business lives.

The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander.

The Nasdaq bubble and crash were followed by the real estate bubble then subprime crash, which led to the unprecedented printing of trillions of dollars in an attempt to prevent a global depression.

The invention of the printing press was one of the most important events in human history.

Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.