References
Source: Practical Pictorial Photography, 1898, Printing the picture and controlling its formation, p. 90
“A book, once it is printed and published, becomes individual.”
"A Note on Cabellian Harmonics" in Cabellian Harmonics (April 1928)
Context: A book, once it is printed and published, becomes individual. It is by its publication as decisively severed from its author as in parturition a child is cut off from its parent. The book "means" thereafter, perforce, — both grammatically and actually, — whatever meaning this or that reader gets out of it.
“The setup of the book as far as printing and paper are concerned is splendid.”
Said regarding Elementare Quantenmechanik by Max Born and Pascual Jordan, as quoted in Quantum Dialogue (1999) by Mara Beller, p. 38
Variant: Books are... companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of mind. Books are humanity in print.
“Tis pleasure, sure, to see one's name in print;
A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.”
Source: English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (1809), Line 51.
Re: "Well, I want to switch over to replace EMACS LISP with Guile." http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/6b361a9c756dc9a1 (Usenet article).
Usenet articles, Miscellaneous
It's a roll call of dead books.
Salon interview (1997)
“No one knows as well as I how much nonsense is printed in books.”
Source: Romancing Mister Bridgerton
“Gutenberg, your printing press has been violated by this evil book!”
Referring to Mein Kampf, in Kellner's political speeches against the Nazis, 1926 - 1932. “Tagebücher gegen den Terror,” Mainz Allgemeine Zeitung, Mainz, Germany, September 24, 2005.
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