Friedrich List Quotes

We can go into no mechanic shop, into no manufactory of any description, upon no farm or plantation, or travel a mile on our railroads or in our steamboats, without seeing evidence of our originality and witnessing the fruits of our ingenuity and enterprise.

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

If you ask an economist what's driven economic growth, it's been major advances in things that mattered - the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that.

The history of economic growth is the history of people making more with less and shifting into new jobs that were unheard of in the previous generation.

Technology is often not a prime mover but a second-order consequence of food surpluses, urbanization, secularism, political stability ... and other conditions that create a fertile climate for innovation.

Every great invention takes a livelihood away from 50,000 men--& within ten years creates a livelihood for half a million.

'Make in India' is great, but 'Make It Happen in India' is even greater. Make It Happen in India is more than manufacturing. It's about training, about education, about societal development and automation and engineering.

As humans, we've always innovated our way out of problems, whether it was the first torch to light a dark cave or the steam engine that sparked a revolution.

Technology is probably the single biggest driver of productivity gains for the developed countries. For example, I think it's much more important than free trade.

Technology is a resource-liberating force!

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.

Hard systems are everything we're using right now - computers, phones, planes, the clothes you're wearing, the room you're in. Everything there involves 100% use of technology and expertise to make it, and nothing we make - including space exploration vehicles and so on - is complex. Everything we make is complicated. Nothing is self-renewing.

Science and the many benefits that science has produced have played a crucial part in our history and produced vast improvements to human welfare.

Chinese productivity is the highest in the world but the way they do it is by borrowing the technology from abroad, either by joint ventures or other means.

I am able to compete not because my labour is cheap, but because I can use technology better than others.

I like to think about machines and technology in relation to landscape and architecture.

We know that, when it comes to technology and the economy, if you're not constantly moving forward, then - without a doubt - you're moving backwards.

Freedom has invented every useful machine, from the lowest to the highest, from the simplest to the most complex.

Of all the inventions of humans, the computer is going to rank near or at the top as history unfolds and we look back. It is the most awesome tool that we have ever invented. I feel incredibly lucky to be at exactly the right place in Silicon Valley, at exactly the right time, historically, where this invention has taken form.

Technological innovation is indeed important to economic growth and the enhancement of human possibilities.

Societies advance through innovation every bit as much as economies do.

As we get better at things, we need less people to produce the things we really need, but what do we do with the rest of the people? They have to be doing something, too, to buy from those few which are doing the really basic stuff, and so that's why we need to be continually producing new stuff.

We too could wrest iron from the bowels of the earth and fashion it into ships and machines.

It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.

Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products.