“Nonetheless, many people, and especially intellectuals, passionately loathe capitalism. As they see it, this ghastly mode of society’s economic organization has brought… — Ludwig Von Mises Copy Share Image
“The Industrial Revolution automated manual work and the Information Revolution did the same for mental work, but machine learning automates automation itself.” — Pedro Domingos Copy Share Image
“The American Revolution and its aftermath coincided with two great transformations in the late eighteenth century. In the political sphere, there had… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“Everyone has a need to feel a sense of self-worth and self-actualization – that he or she believes his or her existence… — Kai-Fu Lee 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
Rockefeller viewed his philanthropy through the lens of his business, and it really mirrored the Industrial Revolution. It was highly centralized, it… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
“Sickness, disease and premature death may be the outcome for those that cannot figure out how to adapt to the man-made world… — Steven Magee 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
The coal plants that will be built from 2005 to 2030 will release as much carbon dioxide as all of the coal… — Joseph J. Romm Copy Share Image
But with the Industrial Revolution and introduction of various industrial techniques for purifying sugar, we have a situation in which what we… — Marvin Harris Copy Share Image
“World inequality today exists because during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries some nations were able to take advantage of the Industrial Revolution… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution. — N. R. Narayana Murthy Copy Share Image
The Peruvian flute music is . . . cool. In this music, they have not yet invented the industrial revolution that leads… — Kate Braverman 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
The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards. — Irving Babbitt 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
“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
“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 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
“during the critical juncture created by the Industrial Revolution, many nations missed the boat and failed to take advantage of the spread… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
“Having set its mark on the generation before Cocteau’s, symbolism expressed a form of inner dissidence confronting the narrow-minded materialism and utilitarian… — Claude Arnaud Copy Share Image
“Until recently, attempts to resolve the contradictions created by urbanization, centralization, bureaucratic growth and statification were viewed as a vain counterdrift to… — Murray Bookchin 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
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
“What we see in the period 1870–1914 is at best a stabilization of inequality at an extremely high level, and in certain… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
