The industrial revolution that defined the first half of the 20 century marked the start of modern business, typified by high-volume, large-scale… — Steven Sinofsky Copy Share Image
Marrying Cal, the scion of a family whose wealth dated to the Industrial Revolution and had multiplied through every turn of the… — Amy Waldman Copy Share Image
The sustainability revolution will, hopefully, be the third major social and economic turning point in human history, following the Neolithic Revolution -… — Prince Charles Copy Share Image
“workers worldwide typically resist regimentation, unless the local worker culture and upbringing are unusually modern.31 This complaint was voiced in England at… — Kevin Simler Copy Share Image
“Some five hundred people lived there. Four thousand years ago I should have found their ancestors living in the same place, in… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“The industrial revolution did not begin in villages such as Kahl, in the workshops of skilled urban craftsmen, or even in the… — Jack Weatherford Copy Share Image
Adolescence has been recognised as a stage of human development since medieval times--long, long before the industrial revolution--and, as it is now,… — Terri E Apter Copy Share Image
To be able to transform societies and economies to low-carbon ones was an amazing challenge. To influence and to facilitate such an… — Patricia Espinosa Copy Share Image
“Most nations argue that they are a natural and eternal entity, created in some primordial epoch by mixing the soil of the… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Many 18th- and 19th-century artists rejected, criticized, or ignored the Industrial Revolution. Instead of uplifting man, industry seemed to demoralize and dehumanize… — Jesse Bryant Wilder Copy Share Image
“There are hundreds of miracles within a single machine. Americans calmly explain these with mathematical formulas. Our difficulty is to learn, theirs… — Warren Eyster Copy Share Image
“By any numerical measure, humanity is becoming rapidly less poor. But between half and two-thirds of people in the West have been… — Edward Luce Copy Share Image
“It seems as if historicist ideas easily become prominent in times of great social change. They appeared when Greek tribal life broke… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
“Every last minute of my life has been preordained and I'm sick and tired of it. How this feels is I'm just… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
It was with the Industrial Revolution, as society plunged ever more eagerly into the conquest of material riches and bent all its… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
“Moreover, the industrial revolution in the United States, as in most of Europe, depended significantly upon a slave trade that involved elaborate… — Mark Lewis Taylor Copy Share Image
“From a scientific perspective the truly revolutionary character of the Industrial Revolution was the dramatic change from an open system where energy… — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
Had history been democratic in its ways, there would have been no farming and no indsturial revolution. Both leaps into the future… — Yanis Varoufakis Copy Share Image
“The romantic contrast between modern industry that “destroys nature” and our ancestors who “lived in harmony with nature” is groundless. Long before… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
To those who think that all this sounds like science fiction, we point out that yesterday's science fiction is today's fact. The… — Theodore Kaczynski Copy Share Image
Since the Industrial Revolution, we tend to use technology to show our power: you know, we build high-rises, towers, big buildings that… — Ma Yansong Copy Share Image
“The second industrial revolution doesn’t present us, as the first did, with overwhelming images of rolling mills or molten steel, but rather… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
I am grateful to the fossil fuel industry for bringing us the concentrated carbon that took us through the Industrial Revolution and… — Mark Ruffalo Copy Share Image
“This was the age of the industrial revolution, science was becoming the new religion and it was therefore natural that large numbers… — Neil Evans Copy Share Image
Prior to the Industrial Revolution, hand-production methods were abundant. Craft defined everything. The craftsman had an almost phenomenological knowledge of materials and… — Neri Oxman Copy Share Image
We are living through the most profound changes in the economy since the Industrial Revolution. Technology, globalization, and the accelerating pace of… — Bruce Tulgan Copy Share Image
Market capitalism survived and prospered after the boom-bust industrial revolution of the 19th century, and the Great Depression and world wars of… — Mark Skousen Copy Share Image
We have been living amidst one of the great revolutions of human history, and we hardly know it: the penetration of the… — Joseph Sobran 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
“There are two or three things that we haven’t been able to confront or even acknowledge politically. One is that the aim… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Anyone who thinks 'Modern Times' has got a big message is just putting it there himself. Charlie knew that the pressures of… — Stan Laurel Copy Share Image
“Between 1811 and 1817, a group of English textile workers whose jobs were threatened by the automated looms of the first Industrial… — Erik Brynjolfsson Copy Share Image
The Internet is the great equalizer.The technology which emanated from the Silicon Valley of California has more potential to ameliorate social inequality… — Benazir Bhutto Copy Share Image
We need 21st century programs. We have to change the dynamic because the world - we're not in the Industrial Revolution anymore,… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
Two hundred years ago, we were all busy farming and we all had a role to play. The home was a unit… — Peter Buffett Copy Share Image
“For the last five centuries, ever since Gutenberg's printing press made book reading a popular pursuit, the linear, literary mind has been… — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
At school, up to the age of sixteen, I found history boring, for we were studying the Industrial Revolution, which was all… — Alison Weir Copy Share Image
If we can make computers more intelligent - and I want to be careful of AI hype - and understand the world… — Andrew Ng Copy Share Image
The clear and present danger of climate change means we cannot burn our way to prosperity. We already rely too heavily on… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
To change our national economic story from one of financial speculation to one of future growth, we need a third industrial revolution:… — Chris Huhne Copy Share Image
