The Futurists were an art movement in the early 20th century which basically glorified machines and the Industrial Revolution. — Britt Daniel Copy Share Image
It's obvious the Green Industrial Revolution will challenge orthodox political and economic thinking. That requires bravery from both politicians and electorates. — Clive Lewis Copy Share Image
In the industrial revolution Britain led the world in advances that enabled mass production: trade exchanges, transportation, factory technology and new skills… — Lucy Powell Copy Share Image
Zippers are primal and modern at the very same time. On the one hand, your zipper is primitive and reptilian, on the… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I'm very interested in the new industrial revolution, what we do in terms of energy, developing the north, ensuring there are jobs… — Claire Fox 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
“To the RKO motion picture camera at her 100th birthday party: “I pray for the day when working men and women are… — Jerry Ash Copy Share Image
The main thing is that Ataturk saw the desperate condition of the countries that had not had an industrial revolution. Ataturk saw… — Ahmet Ertegun Copy Share Image
“Absolutism reigned not just in much of Europe but also in Asia, and similarly prevented industrialization during the critical juncture created by… — Daron Acemoğlu 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
The information revolution has changed people's perception of wealth. We originally said that land was wealth. Then we thought it was industrial… — Walter Wriston 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
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
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
“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
“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
“Yet, with all his acuteness, it did not occur to him that Europe was not in the least to blame for his… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
“There are a lot of things that aren’t your fault. Or mine, either. Not the fault of prophecies, or curses, or DNA,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The Republicans did not set out to establish a strong national state or to facilitate the industrial revolution. They believed strongly in… — David R. Goldfield Copy Share Image
“What the hell’s the matter with you men? Are you cowards as well as stupid? You boys make me sick. I’m done… — Jerry Ash Copy Share Image
The models that have been constructed agree that when, as has been predicted, the level of carbon dioxide or its equivalent in… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
The opening of a foreign trade, by making them acquainted with new objects, or tempting them by the easier acquisition of things… — John Stuart Mill 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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
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
“They had all the means to develop a spinning machine, but “nobody tried”—another example of knowledge hampering optionality. They probably needed someone… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“As the international economist Ronald Findlay argues, “slavery was an integral part of a complex intercontinental system of trade in goods and… — Gavin Wright Copy Share Image
It makes sense that we came up with our public school system during the Industrial Revolution because it's like everybody is a… — Ezra Miller Copy Share Image
“Turning back to the crowd I say, “I am duty bound to make this plea, but I want to say, with all… — Jerry Ash Copy Share Image
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
Since the industrial revolution, cities, and especially the inner cities, were the places for the newly arrived. Voluntary immigrants seeking economic betterment,… — Cleve Jones Copy Share Image
Although prefabrication has a long history - the ancient Romans shipped pre-cut stone columns, pediments, and other architectural elements to their colonies… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
“The emergence of China is the most dramatic event in economic history. We are living in an age of convergence no less… — Edward Luce Copy Share Image