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Quotes About Industry

Keeping our Eastern coalfields and our miners working is critical to national security.
~ Jim Justice
Commerce changes the fate and genius of nations.
~ Thomas Gray
As a native actor, you don't get that much chance to work in art, especially television.
~ Michael Horse
The music industry is a matrix that is counter to what is natural and right.
~ Prince
We were building a - what I thought was a fantastic company. We had great people. We were changing - we were changing the way the marketplace operated. We were creating a market for natural gas and electricity that had never existed before.
~ Jeffrey Skilling
Natural gas is here, it's not going anywhere - we know that. And what we want to try to do is favor those workers who can help us make it even safer and better for the environment.
~ Conor Lamb
Natural gas is a feedstock in basically every industrial process.
~ Aubrey McClendon
only three corporations—Cargill, Archers Daniel Midland Company, and Bunge (all American)—control 90 percent of the global grain trade.
~ Chris Hedges
But the fate of AMD's production capabilities would end up shaping the chip industry—and guaranteeing that the most advanced chipmaking would take place offshore.
~ Chris Miller
GlobalFoundries, as this new company that inherited AMD's fabs was known, entered
~ Chris Miller
Around a quarter of the chip industry's revenue comes from phones; much of the price of a new phone pays for the semiconductors inside. For the past decade, each generation of iPhone has been powered by one of the world's most advanced processor chips. In total, it takes over a dozen semiconductors to make a smartphone work, with different chips managing the battery, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, cellular network connections, audio, the camera, and more.
~ Chris Miller
Last year, the chip industry produced more transistors than the combined quantity of all goods produced by all other companies, in all other industries, in all human history. Nothing else comes close.
~ Chris Miller
The Russian chip industry faced humiliation of its own, with one fab reduced in the 1990s to producing tiny chips for McDonald's Happy Meal toys. The Cold War was over; Silicon Valley had won.
~ Chris Miller
The world's chip industry, as well as the assembly of all the electronic goods chips enable, depends more on the Taiwan Strait and the South China coast than on any other chunk of the world's territory except Silicon Valley.
~ Chris Miller
globalization" of chip fabrication hadn't occurred; "Taiwanization
~ Chris Miller
Russia's oil industry would be dominated by Putin and his allies. This policy had clear costs in terms of deterring foreign investment and reducing efficiency
~ Chris Miller
Our fundamental problem is that our number one customer is our number one competitor.
~ Chris Miller
produced more transistors than the combined quantity of all goods produced by all other companies, in all other industries, in all human history. Nothing else comes close.
~ Chris Miller
the world produced more chips in 2021 than ever before—over 1.1 trillion semiconductor devices, according to research firm IC Insights. This was a 13 percent increase compared to 2020. The semiconductor shortage is mostly a story of demand growth rather than supply issues.
~ Chris Miller
A crucial ingredient in TSMC's early success was deep ties with the U.S. chip industry.
~ Chris Miller
Morris Chang hired Don Brooks, another former Texas Instruments executive, to work as
~ Chris Miller
In the chip industry, by lowering startup costs, Chang's foundry model gave birth to dozens of new "authors"—fabless chip design firms—that transformed the tech sector by putting computing power in all sorts of devices.
~ Chris Miller
Daß er aussichtsreiche Positionen in der Programmindustrie gegen die Ruinen und Weiden Horse Islands getauscht hatte, war vielleicht dem einfachen Umstand zuzuschreiben, daß ihn die meisten Grenzen empörten – es sei denn, sie hatten die Gestalt eines Strandes.
~ Christoph Ransmayr
Of the numerous regrettable elements that go to make up the unlawful carnal-knowledge industry, I should single out for distinction the look of undisguised contempt that is often worn on the faces of its female staff. Some of the working 'hostesses' may have to simulate delight or even interest—itself a pretty cock-shriveling thought—but when these same ladies do the negotiating, they can shrug off the fake charm as a snake discards an unwanted skin.
~ Christopher Hitchens