“What do you see out there?” I ask. “Pittsburgh,” he replies. Now I laugh. “No, young man. What you see is hell… — Jerry Ash Copy Share Image
“Go home now,” says I. “Keep away from the saloons. Save your money. You are going to need it.” “What are we… — Jerry Ash Copy Share Image
“Democracy is supposed to be ‘of the people, by the people and for the people’. Capitalism is ‘of the capitalist, for the… — Jerry Ash Copy Share Image
The purpose of every industrial revolution is to make craft and skills obsolete, and thereby make people interchangeable and cheap. — Greg Palast Copy Share Image
We're on the brink of the next industrial revolution. Instead of buying things, you can make them on a printer. When you… — Bre Pettis Copy Share Image
“I appreciate many wonderful and brilliant discoveries made by humanity during the years of the Industrial Revolution. Yet, the radical transformation of… — Victoria Boutenko Copy Share Image
On a per capita basis, Britain is responsible for more of the carbon dioxide now in the atmosphere than any other nation… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
“Currently, education is stuck in the same Industrial Revolution paradigm it has been in for more than 100 years. In” — Luke Dormehl Copy Share Image
As the great grandchildren of the industrial revolution, we have learned, at last, that the heedless pursuit of more is unsustainable and,… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
Almost everybody today believes that nothing in economic history has ever moved as fast as, or had a greater impact than, the… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Biomimicry is innovation inspired by nature. In a society accustomed to dominating or 'improving' nature, this respectful imitation is a radically new… — Janine Benyus Copy Share Image
“Since the Industrial Revolution, we’ve treated our world like it was a hotel room and we were rock stars. But we aren’t… — Blake Crouch Copy Share Image
Embracing a low carbon economy will be as momentous as the previous industrial revolutions. As the shift from coal to oil did.… — Charles Hendry Copy Share Image
“It had all the elements needed for an industrial revolution centuries before it would occur in Europe. Yet, for one reason or… — Gordon G. Chang Copy Share Image
When the industrial revolution happened there was the Luddistic movement, and there was a fear that machinery would replace all the labor.… — Branko Milanovic Copy Share Image
Chroniclers of the role of paper in history are given to extravagant pronouncements: Architecture would not have been possible without paper. Without… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
The history of lead is a history of neglect. It's a history of decisions on our part not to address the broad… — David Rosner Copy Share Image
“When the Greeks were free they created a civilization advanced beyond anything else in the world. When Rome imposed its imperial rule… — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
Historians will look back on this era and how the Internet changed what we value, what we consider art, the way we… — Debra Monroe Copy Share Image
“The Manchester Act was a significant victory for the nascent cotton manufacturers. But its historical and economic significance was in fact much… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
“I had gone to graduate school because I loved literature, but in graduate school you were not supposed to study literature. You… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“Preindustrial living standards are predictable based on knowledge of disease and environment. Differences in social energy across societies were muted by the… — Gregory Clark Copy Share Image
“The First Wave Extinction, which accompanied the spread of the foragers, was followed by the Second Wave Extinction, which accompanied the spread… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Don’t believe tree-huggers who claim that our ancestors lived in harmony with nature. Long before the Industrial Revolution, Homo sapiens held the… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“. . . waves of desert heat . . . I must’ve passed out, because when I woke up I was shivering… — Ryan Boudinot Copy Share Image
“Corporate interests raised a nearly unified voice heralding automation as a certain and universal beneficial advancement. However, some observers saw the new… — Stephen M. Ward Copy Share Image
“Limitation of scope, however, could represent a profound advantage from an ecological point of view. The sun, the wind and the earth… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
The way we look at nineteenth-century English social realism and appreciate the working classes of the emerging industrial revolution. — Patricia Piccinini Copy Share Image
One of the many sad results of the Industrial Revolution was that we came to depend more than ever on the intellect,… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution is over… — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
The Fourth Industrial Revolution demands that CEOs take responsibility for the massive transformation of their businesses and for the extraordinary impact that… — Pierre Nanterme Copy Share Image
“The first industrial revolution is flawed. It is not working. It is unsustainable. It is a mistake and we must move on… — Wayne Visser Copy Share Image
I was an active participant in India's key economic reforms, including the third industrial revolution and now the fourth industrial revolution. — N. Chandrababu Naidu Copy Share Image
National boundaries these days are not that important because of transformative technological development. Now we are talking about the fourth industrial revolution. — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
We humans have always been resilient. With each industrial revolution, we have adapted, creating new jobs with new technologies. — Hari Sreenivasan Copy Share Image
The world is poised on the cusp of an economic and cultural shift as dramatic as that of the Industrial Revolution. — Steven Levy Copy Share Image
The creation of millions of secure, well-paid jobs must be at the forefront of any Green Industrial Revolution. — Clive Lewis Copy Share Image
Only since the Industrial Revolution have most people worked in places away from their homes or been left to raise small children… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Indeed, the Fourth Industrial Revolution will greatly lead to increased consumer health awareness and self-management and will enable individualized treatment pathways supported… — Frans van Houten Copy Share Image
“That’s got to stop,” says I. “The idea of any blood-thirsty pirate (Mexican President Diaz) sitting on a throne and reaching across… — Jerry Ash Copy Share Image
