Different places Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson

“Consider this oddly neglected fact: the West was acquired, conquested, and largely consolidated into the nation coincident with the greatest breakthrough in the history…

— Elliott West

“It was the stupidity of virility that impressed me--& how, having made those convenient railway lines of convention, the lusts speed along them unquestioning.”

— Virginia Woolf

“Communication is the railway of information linking two intersecting paths together.”

— Asa Don Brown

The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to…

— Noam Chomsky

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end,…

— Henry David Thoreau

The conversation, like many others I had with people on trains, derived an easy candour from the shared journey, the comfort of the dining…

— Paul Theroux

“When railroads were first introduced, some people thought the speed would be so intense, it would cause their organs to shoot out of their…

— Tal M. Klein

“We instinctively wave to people on trains because trains are a metaphor for being alive: countless souls, trapped together, hurtling across the landscape, with…

— Douglas Coupland

For a brief time in the 1850s, the telegraph companies of England and the United States thought that they could (and should) preserve every…

— James Gleick

“I’m guessing if you asked anyone from IT about the moral implications, they would likely extol humanity’s well-documented historical grapples with new transportation technologies.…

— Tal M. Klein

“the railroad and the steamship affected not only industry and commerce, but also the lives of millions of ordinary people.”

— Thomas Sowell

“Trains are beautiful. They take people to places they've never been, faster than they could ever go themselves. Everyone who works on trains knows…

— Sam Starbuck