20th century Quote by Daniel Kleppner Download Open image “Big machines are the awe-inspiring cathedrals of the 20th century.” — Daniel Kleppner ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare 20th century Awe Awe inspiring Big mac Bigs Cathedrals Century Computers Machines
Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The challenge of a cathedral is very good for architectural inventiveness. — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
“Beautiful machines from 1920s and '30s, when automobiles were both monstrous and sexy at the same time.” — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
In the early days, computers inspired widespread awe and the popular press dubbed them giant brains. In fact, the computer's power resembled that of… — Tracy Kidder Copy Share Image
Large motorway flyovers are the cathedrals of the modern world. — Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn Copy Share Image
Even bigger machines, entailing even bigger concentrations of economic power and exerting ever greater violence against the environment, do not represent progress: they are… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
If we are going to build an ambitious machine, then it's got to be a global machine. — Barry Barish Copy Share Image
“We will become an endangered species in the next century. Machines will take over. Ideas won’t matter. Performance alone will count.” — R.M. DAmato Copy Share Image
Are machines getting more and more powerful? Absolutely. It's been going on since 1940. We are making progress, and for many people, it will… — Moshe Vardi Copy Share Image
Most buildings, whether they're Gothic cathedrals or Romanesque ones, were high tech for their time. — Richard Rogers Copy Share Image
“Well the first War of the Machines seems to be drawing to its final inconclusive chapter - leaving, alas, everyone the poorer, many bereaved… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
The tall modern office building is the machine pure and simple...the engine, the motor and the battleship the works of the century. — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
Einstein and the Quantum is delightful to read, with numerous historical details that were new to me and cham1ing vignettes of Einstein and his… — Daniel Kleppner Copy Share Image
I think the inhabitants of the past are fighting hard to keep the rents they acquired in the 20th century. — Michael Bennet Copy Share Image
Corporate America is a 20th-century dinosaur, trembling on the edge of extinction, and the only way for you to have a genuinely secure future… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
America thrived in the 20th century because we made high school free. We sent a generation to college. We cultivated the most educated workforce… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The 20th century has been marked by cynicism, selfishness, greed, and the desire to please, all without changing the status quo. In the 21st… — Óscar Arias Copy Share Image
I've studied the lives of the 20th century's great businessmen and concluded self-confidence was instrumental in all their success. — Alex Spanos Copy Share Image
The great wars of the 20th Century made it into the worst Century ever. — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
That is very different from how it used to be in the 20th century. Media was very one way. There's a small little industry.… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
If you look back on the history of the 20th century, the 19th century or even to the ancien régime of the 18th, you… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Up to the 20th century, we can say that this whole period was an Earth epoch, 'Earth' meaning the riches of the earth, simple… — Lech Walesa Copy Share Image
I think this century more than any other really has seen the phenomenon of people being uprooted in such numbers, such a degree. They… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
If you look at that incredible burst of fantastic characters that emerged in the late 19th century/early 20th century, you can see so many… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Cruel and paradoxical though it undoubtedly is, the record shows that yje most succesful 20th century monarchs have been those who were not actually… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
