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
We've got to search back to our last known safe landmark. I can't say exactly where, but I think it's back there… — David R. Brower Copy Share Image
With the Industrial Revolution, the production of food was delegated to big companies in order for women and men to be in… — Lidia Bastianich 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
“Brewing is mentioned rarely in accounts of the Industrial Revolution. Temperance pressures meant it was impolitic for brewers to boast of their… — Peter Brown Copy Share Image
But the broader lesson of the first Industrial Revolution is more like the Indy 500 than John Henry: economic progress comes from… — Erik Brynjolfsson Copy Share Image
The liberation of women from exclusive domesticity did not originate in feminist books, or a war, or a big inflation, although they… — Barbara Bergmann Copy Share Image
“Political power was thus widely dispersed in Somali society, almost pluralistically. But without the authority of a centralized state to enforce order,… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
“American whale oil lit the world. It was used in the production of soap, textiles, leather, paints, and varnishes, and it lubricated… — Eric Jay Dolin Copy Share Image
How this feels is I'm just another task in God's daily planner: The Renaissance pencilled in for right after the Dark Ages.… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Throughout history the job market has been divided into three main sectors: agriculture, industry, and services. Up until 1800, most people worked… — GBF Summary 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
My belief is firm in a law of compensation. The true rewards are ever in proportion to the labor and sacrifices made.… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
“We will endeavor to halt the Industrial Revolution before it is too late, to regulate population at a reasonable point, to eventually… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Without the changes in political institutions and political power similar to those that emerged in England after 1688, there was little chance… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
When I was trying to figure out why lives have improved so much in the last 300 years, where we've gone from… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
“Well, honey, it’s capitalism that brings out the meanness and greed,” says I. “Our founding fathers did a decent job of framing… — Jerry Ash Copy Share Image
My sense is that we're ready for another industrial revolution in this country. The great minds and innovators of Silicon Valley would… — Jon Huntsman, Jr Copy Share Image
“Other generations faced big challenges: the Industrial Revolution with its sweeping social and economic changes; abolishing slavery; defeating fascism; establishing civil rights… — John Rogers Copy Share Image
Ideas about mothers have swung historically with the roles of women. When women were needed to work the fields or shops, experts… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
“The Industrial Revolution was the culmination of the rise of Western civilization that began in Greece twenty-seven centuries ago. It was the… — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
Every smart person that I admire in the world, and those I semi-fear, is focused on this concept of crypto for a… — Brock Pierce Copy Share Image
Angus Deaton has written a wonderful book, The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality. . . . Deaton's book… — Michael Marmot Copy Share Image
Ever since the Industrial Revolution, investments in science and technology have proved to be reliable engines of economic growth. If homegrown interest… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Because I had visited Silicon Valley, I recognized the microprocessor was going to lead the second industrial revolution. We Chinese could not… — Stan Shih Copy Share Image
“The importance of capital in the early Industrial Revolution was so great and so obvious everywhere that it gave rise to several… — Hugh Brogan Copy Share Image
“Coined by ecologist Eugene Stoermer in the 1980s, but popularized by Dutch chemist Paul Crutzen in 2002, the term Anthropocene refers to… — Cristina Eisenberg Copy Share Image
I think that human beings have gotten as far as we've gotten because of our adaptability, our ability to adapt, and our… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
“At heart, the Industrial Revolution has been a revolution in energy conversion. It has demonstrated again and again that there is no… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
However, the agricultural revolution took thousands of years, the Industrial Revolution took hundreds, and the information revolution only took decades. So, who… — Pete Seeger 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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
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
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
