Printed Materials Quotes

I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.

The liberty of the press is not confined to newspapers and periodicals. It necessarily embraces pamphlets and leaflets.

If only it were God's will that printed and written materials have as much influence on the people as the princes and their censors fear! Considering the countless good books we have, the world would have changed for the better a long time ago.

Today, if you want to access a typical out-of-print book, you have only one choice - fly to one of a handful of leading libraries in the country and hope to find it in the stacks.

As useful as websites and journals are, there's real value in books, too.

I am full of admiration for the technologists who have developed all sorts of gadgets for the purpose of improving communications. However, I believe that all these fascinating machines are complementary to, and not substitutes for, books and the printed word.

The Internet has improved a lot in the last few years, but still, you wouldn't want to depend on Web sources for historical analysis. There's just something hard to beat about a book.

My gut feeling is that paper and ink are going to be with us for a long time yet, and in substantial quantities, though certainly books are now going to be available in other forms.

The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man.

I'm still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.

Computers don't kill books; people do.

Magazines all too frequently lead to books and should be regarded by the prudent as the heavy petting of literature.

All that are printed and bound are not books; they do not necessarily belong to letters, but are oftener to be ranked with the other luxuries and appendages of civilized life. Base wares are palmed off under a thousand disguises.

Print-based libraries developed in an age of scarce printed resources.