Quote by Franklin Foer

“Thousands of years ago, the work that people did had been broken down into jobs that were the same every day, in organizations where…

— Neal Stephenson

“bloated industrials, who were piling up fortunes abroad while they were wrecking their country at home.”

— John Buchan

“As a result, these societies became surprisingly passive and reticent. Newspaper men were harder to manage, but seemed largely to coöperate with the government…

— H.P. Lovecraft

“But the sluggishness of the economy widened the gulf between grand expectations and the real limits of progress, undercutting the all-important sense that the…

— James T. Patterson

“As labor strife increased and the economy faltered, the general level of violence rose.”

— Erik Larson

“it was the wars of the twentieth century that wiped away the past to create the illusion that capitalism had been structurally transformed.”

— Thomas Piketty

“Innovation was being replaced by bureaucracy. Teamwork was being replaced by internal politics. We were falling behind.”

— Satya Nadella

“Opportunists prosper in the atmosphere of crisis, although fittingly even they are sometimes undone by their own scheming,”

— David Bevington

“As I unravel the many things that brought me to this crisis point, one is undeniably my own belief that hard work can solve…

— Shauna Niequist

“Within each one of us there is some piece of humanness that knows we are not being served by the machine which orchestrates crisis…

— Audre Lorde

“If the industrial era was about building things, the social era is about connecting things, people and ideas.”

— Nilofer Merchant

“One of these days the entire Western world will grind to a halt, its apparatus clogged with forms, files and memoranda.”

— R.F. Delderfield