Neri Oxman Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

When we developed written language, we significantly increased our functional memory and our ability to share insights and knowledge across time and space. The same thing happened with the invention of the printing press, the telegraph, and the radio.

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

Back when people couldn't read, other people would take newspapers and turn them into theater so that people would know what was going on in the world. That is a powerful thing.

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

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

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.

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

Overall, the world has never been better informed.

The biggest invention of modern time is the book. The book is a digital medium; book text is written in a different form and replicable. What it really does is it allows us to replicate cultural information, scientific technology, and information out of the human brain.

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

Universal access to human knowledge is in our grasp, for the first time in the history of the world. This is not a bad thing.

I don't think Silicon Valley understands the power of Wikipedia, how it works, or the opportunities it represents.

I have a passion for libraries. They are potentially real community centers.

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

A library implies an act of faith.

If you give people literacy, bad ideas can be attacked and experiments tried, and lessons will accumulate.

After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were not permitted to - read, were given sermons by the few who could.

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

Right up to the middle of this century all perceptions of the world around us were delivered via the bookshelf or the paper route.

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