Gutenberg Press Quotes

“We are in the middle of the biggest revolution in reading and writing since the advent of the Gutenberg press.”
― Sara Sheridan

“Manuscript editions didn't immediately die out with the printing explosion that burst across Europe in the 1460s and 1470s. Manuscripts continued to be produced into the 16th century, many decades after presses had spread to most minor cities in Western Europe.”
― Ian Lamont

“..the kind of influence printing has had on modern sensibility… : the shattering of the intellectual experience into uniform and repeatable units, the establishment of a sense of homogeneity and continuity that generated, at a distance of centuries, the assembly line, and presided over the ideology of the mechanical age, as well as the cosmology of infinitesimal calculation.”
― Umberto Eco, Travels in Hyperreality