Movable Type Printing

Famous quotes containing the words movable, type and/or printing:

“Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)

“Histories of the world omitted China; if a Chinaman invented compass or movable type or gunpowder we promptly “forgot it” and named their European inventors. In short, we regarded China as a sort of different and quite inconsequential planet.”
—W.E.B. (William Edward Burghardt)

“The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare.”
—Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980)