Industrial Legacy Quotes

As murderous industrial magnates go, Alfred Nobel is right up there with Ray Kroc, franchiser of McDonald's.

Manchester's history is cotton and wool. Birmingham's is iron and steel.

I am very aware that I'm the product of growing up in England and the tradition of designing and making, of England industrialising first.

The era of industrial Britain, where a large section of our workforce provided cheap labour in factories and processing goods, is over.

In this post-industrial society, when we're moving away from what was the norm, we have to deal with what it has left in its wake in terms of the impact on people and the environment.

I'm fascinated by the ruins and remains of industrialisation.

When people think of the oil industry, they think of Rockefeller, much like when people think of the software industry, they think of Bill Gates.

I think most of the world would like to be Scottish. All the Americans who come here never look for English blood or Welsh, only for Scottish and Irish. It's understandable. The Scots effectively created the face of the modern world: the railways, the bridges, the tunnels.

Mariano the Second had been the son of a fisherman, but he'd suffered from an unfortunate tendency toward seasickness and was forced to find a respectable career that could be safely conducted on dry land. So he built boats. Mariano the Third built bigger boats. And by the time a girl from a very different type of family business arrived at their shopfront on the Mediterranean coast, Mariano the Fourth had built and patented at least half a dozen of the most advanced (and justifiably expensive) watercrafts in the world.