Amazing Quote by Tim Harford

Some of the technologies that were created during the Industrial Revolution were appalling, such as capitalization, investment, social hierarchy, sexism, racism, and ecological destruction.

— Chellis Glendinning

Many bought into the idea that America could go from a technology-based, export-oriented powerhouse to a services-led, consumption-based economy - and somehow still expect…

— Jeffrey R. Immelt

The electronics industry expanded rapidly and the seeds for the semiconductor and software revolution were planted. The postwar period also saw the suburbanization of…

— Barry Ritholtz

Well, the big products in electronics in the '50s were radio and television. The first big computers were just beginning to come in and…

— Jack Kilby

What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system,…

— Fareed Zakaria

The boom was healthy too, even with its excesses. Because what this incredible valuation craze did was draw untold sums of billions of dollars…

— Andy Grove

“At the industry level this process went, for example, from cotton, tobacco and wheat through railroads and automobiles, household appliances and electrical goods, to…

— Edward A. Hudson

Originally, I was in both software and in online computing. The first innovation really was sort of at that time that we're marrying the…

— Sam Wyly

There was a magical breakthrough when the computer became cheap and we could see that everyone could afford a computer.

— Bill Gates

WHY did we start doing WHAT we’re doing in the first place, and WHAT can we do to bring our cause to life considering…

— Simon Sinek

Many pioneers of these industrial changes, it is true, became rich. But they acquired their wealth by supplying the public with motor cars, airplanes,…

— Ludwig von Mises

The United States as we know it today is largely the result of mechanical inventions, and in particular of agricultural machinery and the railroad.…

— John Moody