Manuscript culture is conversational if only because the writer and his audience are physically related by the form of publication as performance. (p… - Marshall McLuhan

The medieval student had to be paleographer, editor, and publisher of the authors he read. (p. 109)

In accepting an honorary degree from the University of Notre Dame a few years ago, General David Sarnoff made this statement: “We are too prone to make technological instruments the scapegoats for the sins of those who wield them. The products of modern science are not in themselves good or bad; it is the way they are used that determines their value.

The invention of printing did away with anonymity, fostering ideas of literary fame and the habit of considering intellectual effort as private property. (p. 122)