History Quote by richard powers

“What is Human history, if not an ongoing succession of greater technologies grinding lesser ones beneath their boots?”

— Peter Watts

“The history of social, political and technological change is inextricably bound to the history of thought.”

— Philip Stokes

“History is humankind trying to get a grip.”

— Kim Stanley Robinson

“Progress is hard on history.”

— Justina Chen Headley

“The more data we have and the better we understand history, the faster history alters its course, and the faster our knowledge becomes outdated.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“History is out of human control and moves forward without consideration of human life or human happiness.”

— FastReads

“History is a record of human nature in action.”

— James Carlos Blake

“Because some things that seem unimportant now can change the course of human history -- and I am a student of human history.”

— Daniel Nayeri

“Isn't history breaking so fast that you have to anticipate it?”

— Joseph McElroy

“Michael Corbett speaks of this in The Outsourcing Revolution, “In many ways, outsourcing may well prove to be the key enabler of the 21st-century…

— Kate Vitasek

“History is simply what's behind us.”

— Brad Meltzer

“History gives us the company of those who have done and suffered more than we have.”

— Timothy Snyder