Accountants Quote by Harold Innis

The genius idea of industrialism was the concept of the Model T: In exchange for something cheap and well-made, we'd forgo unique, lovely design.

— Clive Thompson

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

Industrialization is the systemic exploitation of wasting assets. In all too many cases, the thing we call progress is merely an acceleration in the…

— Aldous Huxley

The two great aims of industrialism — replacement of people by technology and concentration of wealth into the hands of a small plutocracy —…

— Wendell Berry

Contemporary industrial society is now characterised more than ever by the need for stupefying work where it is no longer a real necessity.

— Herbert Marcuse

Industrial Society is not merely one containing 'industry,' large-scale productive units capable of supplying man's material needs in a way which can eliminate poverty:…

— Ernest Gellner

The industrial revolution in the new century is, in essence, a scientific and technological revolution, and breaking through the cutting edge is a shortcut…

— Kim Jong-un

It takes more than industry to industrialize.

— Walt Whitman Rostow

Technology, under all circumstances, leads to planning; in its higher manifestations it may put the problems of planning beyond the reach of the industrial…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Over a long period of time, technological change is something that has been important in reducing manufacturing employment - absolutely and as a share…

— Janet Yellen

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 aim of industrialization has always been to replace people with machines or other technology, to make the cost of production as low as…

— Wendell Berry