Charles Babbage Quotes

Factories not what they used to be - they're all extremely high-tech.

It's crazy to go into manufacturing. That's not where the money is.

Some countries were able to turn their manufacturing operations into advanced technology areas. South Korea is a great example of this, and manufacturing there is done using advanced technological methods.

Nearly every country in the world is now becoming industrialized as rapidly as it can.

Industry is extremely slow in readjusting itself to the manufacture of modern consumer goods.

Manufacturing is more than just putting parts together. It's coming up with ideas, testing principles and perfecting the engineering, as well as final assembly.

Compared to industry in Europe or Japan, where industry was based on a craft tradition, we are sadly behind.

We dried continuously day and night. We had no efficient way to do it, so we built this new popcorn plant.

With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption.

What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology.

In the case of Apple, they did originally do production internally, but then along came unbelievably good outsourced manufacturing from companies like Foxconn. We don't have that in the rocket business. There's no Foxconn in the rocket business.

Despite all the political sound and fury, little service-sector offshoring has happened to date. But it may eventually amount to a third Industrial Revolution, and industrial revolutions have a way of transforming societies.

More steel has been produced since 1910 than in all the preceding history of the world.

I think AI is the new electricity. Whatever industry you work in, AI will probably transform it, just as 100 years ago the rise of electricity transformed industry after industry—everything from transportation and communications to manufacturing to health care.

The factory is the machine that builds the machine.

I've been to so many manufacturing plants. I've yet to walk into one where I did not think AI solutions wouldn't help.

The right focus for the U.S. is on advanced manufacturing - something that requires innovation.

There has to be a drive to make the U.K. competitive in the motorcar industry or in the engineering industry. To do that, you have to give attention to the manufacturing sector.

I think the next massive wave of value creation will be when you can get a manufacturing company or agriculture devices company or a health care company to develop dozens of AI solutions to help their businesses.

When Japan was on the rise, American governors would come to inspect Toyota City and study 'just in time' manufacturing to increase efficiency; when America was at its peak in the late 1990s, the world beat a path to its venture capitalists.

As our farms and factories grew more efficient, they accounted for a shrinking share of our economy. And the more productive agriculture and manufacturing became, the fewer people they employed.

In the U.S., a lot of small manufacturers are pretty good. I don't see any reason why India won't make the same progress in manufacturing as it did in services.

One of the good things that's happening in manufacturing in Mexico is that the old maquiladora that was relegated to just assembling things has changed in different sectors. One of these sectors is the aerospace industry and in how we attract workers that have been in technical school.

I see a big, promising future for India's manufacturing and supply chain part of our company.

For our part, Africa will make a significant contribution to the Fourth Industrial Revolution.