Jay Samit Quotes

The First Industrial Revolution used water and steam power to mechanize production. The Second used electric power to create mass production. The Third used electronics and information technology to automate production.

Industrial forces set in motion by steam and electricity have materially changed the structure of our civilization.

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

In short, industrialism is over.

The industrial revolution that defined the first half of the 20 century marked the start of modern business, typified by high-volume, large-scale organizations. Mechanization created a culture of business derived from the capabilities and needs of the time.

Instruments, machines, looms will increasingly supplement the strength and skill of men; will augment at the same time the perfection and the precision of manufactures by lessening both the time and the labor needed to produce them

The industrial revolution turned time into a commodity.

...industrialisation took centuries, rather than decades

Industrial Revolution

To join in the industrial revolution, you needed to open a factory; in the Internet revolution, you need to open a laptop.

We're living through the second Industrial Revolution.

Mankind had the agricultural revolution, the industrial revolution, and now this third one, the information revolution.

Sitting here at the beginning of the 21st century, we're only 200 years into the industrial revolution. We don't have an enormous dataset to draw on, so whatever shaped curve we're on, we're only at the beginning of it.

While the digital transformation of industries will be profound, we must keep in mind that it will have wider economic and social impact, too, as with previous revolutions driven by steam and coal, electricity and computers.

When water power then steam power were harnessed to spin and weave cloth, a cottage craft turned into an industry overnight.

Prior to the Industrial Revolution, hand-production methods were abundant. Craft defined everything. The craftsman had an almost phenomenological knowledge of materials and intuited how to vary their properties according to their structural and environmental characteristics.

The industrial revolution allowed us, for the first time, to start replacing human labour with machines.

A great factory with the machinery all working and revolving with absolute and rhythmic regularity and with the men all driven by one impulse, and moving in unison as though a constituent part of the mighty machine, is one of the most inspiring examples of directed force that the world knows. I have rarely seen the face of a mechanic in the action of creation which was not fine, never one which was not earnest and impressive.

Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought by technology.

The industrial revolution in the new century is, in essence, a scientific and technological revolution, and breaking through the cutting edge is a shortcut to the building of an economic giant.

The world is poised on the cusp of an economic and cultural shift as dramatic as that of the Industrial Revolution.

A lot of the critique of our growing mechanization was actually at its strongest, and arguably at its most perceptive, during the late '60s.

Our world has evolved and grown more technologically savvy. Lawmakers need to adjust to these changes.

In the Machine Age, the company itself became a machine - a machine for making money.

The Industrial Revolution was another of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization.