“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
“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
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
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
“virtually the entire improvement in output per worker in Britain in the first century of the Industrial Revolution was due to improvement… — Edward A. Hudson 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
“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
“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
“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
“Long before the Industrial Revolution, Homo sapiens held the record among all organisms for driving the most plant and animal species to… — Yuval Noah Harari 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
“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
Japan had a more radical experience of future shock than any other nation in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. They were this… — William Gibson 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
Concentration of greenhouse gases, especially CO2, have increased substantially since the beginning of the industrial revolution. And the National Academy of Sciences… — George W. Bush 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
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
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
“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
“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
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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
We need to develop the new green industrial revolution that develops the new technologies that can confront and overcome the challenge of… — Tony Blair 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
One thing I found out was that we need extended families. We need gangs. And, of course, if they're tribes and clans… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
All the big revolutions, whether it's the Industrial Revolution, the Arab Spring, those changes happened by economic and social shifts brought about… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
