printing quotes

4 quotes

With a computer, you make your changes on the screen and then you print out a clean copy. With a typewriter, you can’t get a clean manuscript unless you start again from scratch. It’s an incredibly tedious process.

Paul Auster

Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.

Henry David Thoreau

I think we are waiting for an e-book that even non-techies can be comfortable with. From my point of view, the biggest change is that I don’t have to spend most of the day printing out and packaging a manuscript. I think I almost miss that.

Terry Pratchett

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.

Thomas Carlyle