Nate Silver Quotes

The book has had a good run. For 550 years, it was the most practical way to deliver writing to multiple readers.

The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare.

Movable type seemed magical to the monks who were illuminating manuscripts and copying texts. Certainly e-books seem magical to me.

The thing I like most about books is that anybody can afford them. They have an innate valuelessness.

the day Johannes Gutenberg finished his wooden printing press in 1440. Western civilization turned onto a path toward more efficient, accessible communication of knowledge.]

Among the earliest modern commodities were printed books … and their shrinking price and increased availability were far more historically momentous than, say, the spread of the internal combustion engine.

Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.

If you think about it, the printing press allowed everyone to print books - it democratised the printing of information. For the first time, we could all print.

This object that we hold in our hands, a book... that tactile pleasure, it's just not going to go away.

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.

The reason is that till date, in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information, the written word in the form of books still remains one of humanity's most enduring legacies.

Whenever there's an opportunity to celebrate the written word and celebrate the folks that read the written word, and, I think, to encourage other writers to write and encourage folks to read more and get connected to it in a personal way, it's a positive thing.

I want those young whipper-snappers to know that in days past we actually used to kill trees and make those things called books.

The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.

For people who are readers, reading is important to them.

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

I didn't have picture books - there weren't many around when I was a child.

The problem with being an avid reader in China is that there were few books to be read.

The United States is the only nation in the world whose entire culture was formed entirely in the age of print.

The printing press did something really big for the world when everyone could get books in their hands and read.

I've just always loved books, and I love the idea that we're all just really made of stories. I do also like the idea that anyone can love books. Books don't care how educated you are or what you do for a living.

I come from a family of readers. Our house smelled of book.

I suggest school buses make stops at local libraries so that children who do not have resources like books at home can get access.

My parents were really poor. We never bought books because you could go to the library. It would be stupid to buy one.