Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.

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

What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.

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

Our printing press is the Internet. Our coffee houses are social networks.

What these critics forget is that printing presses in themselves provide no guarantee of an enlightened outcome. People, not machines, made the Renaissance. The printing that takes place in North Korea today, for instance, is nothing more than propaganda for a personality cult. What is important about printing presses is not the mechanism, but the authors.