Age Quote by Aldous Huxley

A great factory with the machinery all working and revolving with absolute and rhythmic regularity and with the men all driven by one impulse,…

— Thomas Nelson Page

If there is one thing clear about the centuries dominated by the factory and the wheel, it is that although the machine can make…

— Henry Beston

Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought…

— Emily Greene Balch

“The second industrial revolution doesn’t present us, as the first did, with overwhelming images of rolling mills or molten steel, but rather with bits…

— Italo Calvino

The complicated engines manufactured by men demand, if one really wants to use them, much calm. Ever since our love for machines replaced the…

— Man Ray

But the broader lesson of the first Industrial Revolution is more like the Indy 500 than John Henry: economic progress comes from constant innovation…

— Erik Brynjolfsson

Technology plows through history at an accelerating rate, shifting the burden of production off labor into the nonhuman factor because man uses his highest…

— Louis O. Kelso

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

— Vitalik Buterin

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

— Branko Milanovic

In proportion as the machine is improved and performs man's work with an ever increasing rapidity and exactness, the labourer, instead of prolonging his…

— Paul Lafargue

“The first industrial revolution is flawed. It is not working. It is unsustainable. It is a mistake and we must move on to another…

— Wayne Visser

And a revolution of automation finds machines replacing men in the mines and mills of America, without replacing their incomes or their training or…

— John F. Kennedy