Kevin Systrom Quotes

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.

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

A library implies an act of faith.

The health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture, and our concern for the future can be tested by how well we support out libraries.

A library book, I imagine, is a happy book.

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.

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.

All the women in my life have been librarians, English teachers and book sellers.

I'm not a library.

Libraries are the ultimate restaurants for brain food. I sleep better knowing there are libraries. I would take a bullet for a librarian.

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

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

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.

May books spread the world over!

What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.

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

Getting books out into the world helps us all.

My goal is to be surrounded by books.

My grandfather and mother were school teachers, so there was always some discussion around books.

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

In Liverpool, where I live, we have a brilliant library which has been refurbished, and I like going there.

Reading is important. Books are important. Librarians are important. (Also, libraries are not child-care facilities, but sometimes feral children raise themselves among the stacks.)

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

My alma mater was books, a good library.

Blessings be the inventor of the alphabet, pen and printing press! Life would be -- to me in all events -- a terrible thing without books.