Industrial revolution Quotes

Adam Smith's huge failure was the fact that he did not foresee the industrial revolution.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Fourth industrial revolution is a deadly combination of technology and Internet of Things.

— N. Chandrababu Naidu

The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.

— David Cronenberg

Rural America's not coming back. That idea was lost with the Industrial Revolution.

— David Simon

“The industrial model is gone. People are more than machines.”

— Richie Norton

The industrial revolution allowed us, for the first time, to start replacing human labour with machines.

— Vitalik Buterin

If our era is the next Industrial Revolution, as many claim, AI is surely one of its driving forces.

— Fei-Fei Li

It's the Industrial Revolution and the growth of urban concentrations that led to a sense of anonymity.

— Vint Cerf

A lot of the factories that had been the bedrock of many small cities were being shut down, which led me to…

— Lynn Nottage

As a technologist, I see how AI and the fourth industrial revolution will impact every aspect of people's lives.

— Fei-Fei Li

The Industrial Revolution caused a centuries-long shift in power to the West; globalization is now shifting the balance again.

— Dennis C. Blair

“What do you see out there?” I ask. “Pittsburgh,” he replies. Now I laugh. “No, young man. What you see is hell…

— Jerry Ash

The Fourth Industrial Revolution does not just entail risks: it also brings solutions to humanitarian problems.

— Peter Maurer

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

The Industrial Revolution was another one of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization.

— Stephen Gardiner

The industrial revolution in the new century is, in essence, a scientific and technological revolution, and breaking through the cutting edge is…

— Kim Jong-un

From Caesar's legions to the Napoleonic wars. From the Reformation, the Enlightenment and the industrial revolution to the defeat of nazism. We…

— David Cameron

We have not inherited an easy world. If developments like the Industrial revolution, which began here in England, and the gifts of…

— Ronald Reagan

When the industrial revolution happened there was the Luddistic movement, and there was a fear that machinery would replace all the labor.…

— Branko Milanovic

Chroniclers of the role of paper in history are given to extravagant pronouncements: Architecture would not have been possible without paper. Without…

— Mark Kurlansky

“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

The main thing is that Ataturk saw the desperate condition of the countries that had not had an industrial revolution. Ataturk saw…

— Ahmet Ertegun

“Absolutism reigned not just in much of Europe but also in Asia, and similarly prevented industrialization during the critical juncture created by…

— Daron Acemoğlu

Sitting here at the beginning of the 21st century, we're only 200 years into the industrial revolution. We don't have an enormous…

— Alastair Reynolds

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

“The obvious differences apart, Karl Marx was no more a reliable prophet than was the Reverend Jim Jones. Karl Marx was a…

— William F. Buckley, Jr

“Finally, “industrial society,” to use a genteel euphemism for capitalism, has also become an easy explanation for the environmental ills that afflict…

— Murray Bookchin

“THE LAST 500 YEARS HAVE WITNESSED A breathtaking series of revolutions. The earth has been united into a single ecological and historical…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Walter White’s more remarkable achievement in print was the book Rope and Faggot, which distilled his firsthand accounts of more than forty…

— Nicholas Johnson

“Drug addicts perplex me. They're a relatively recent development, historically speaking. Everyone has their theories - monotheists like to blame it on…

— Kevin Hearne

“The British succeeded. India deindustrialized, it ruralized. As the industrial revolution spread in England, India was turning into a poor, ruralized and…

— Noam Chomsky

“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

“waiting for the other shoe to drop. Did you know it originated in cities like Chicago and New York?” “No. I did…

— Penny Reid

“As with France, an important consequence of the British Industrial Revolution for China and Japan was military vulnerability. China was humbled by…

— Daron Acemoğlu

“True, hundreds of millions may nevertheless go on believing in Islam, Christianity or Hinduism. But numbers alone don’t count for much in…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Let's look at one more quick example of modern evolution at work. In the early 1800s, light-colored lichens covered many of the…

— David Mills

“Tinkerers built America. Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, all were tinkerers in their childhood. Everything from the airplane to the computer…

— Mark Steyn

“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

“World inequality today exists because during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries some nations were able to take advantage of the Industrial Revolution…

— Daron Acemoğlu

“Though time management seems a problem as old as time itself, the science of scheduling began in the machine shops of the…

— Brian Christian