Century Quote by Charles R. Morris

We had learned how to invent things, and the question of why we invent things receded in importance. The idea that if something could…

— Neil Postman

Two hundred years ago, we were all busy farming and we all had a role to play. The home was a unit of production.…

— Peter Buffett

In the name of economy a thousand wasteful devices would be invented; and in the name of efficiency new forms of mechanical time-wasting would…

— Lewis Mumford

No specific technology. My guess is that it was the instinct always to go to maximum scale. Great Britain kept much more of a…

— Charles R. Morris

“It was a marvel of mechanical engineering even if it shouldn’t be. By some standards it was thrown together. Constructed with a lack of…

— Tom Wood

Games are work. There are economies popping up in games now because people value them.

— Jane McGonigal

“The great inequality of the modern world that emerged in the nineteenth century was caused by the uneven dissemination of industrial technologies and manufacturing…

— Daron Acemoğlu

“Alfred North Whitehead summed it up best when he remarked that the greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the idea of invention itself.…

— Neil Postman

In the industrial revolution Britain led the world in advances that enabled mass production: trade exchanges, transportation, factory technology and new skills needed for…

— Lucy Powell

Manufacturing is the most important...route to prosperity.

— Ha-Joon Chang

We have a whole industry which is gigantic: games. Games is very successful. It's its own art form, though, and it's not the same…

— Edwin Catmull

Small things done consistently, in strategic places, create major impact.

— David Allen