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Quotes About Industry

An education is not properly an industry, and its proper use is not to serve industries.
~ Wendell Berry
Industrial medicine is as little interested in ecological health as is industrial agriculture. (Health Is Membership, pg. 98)
~ Wendell Berry
Explanations of the stability of technologies must take account of the social relations of work as
~ Wiebe E. Bijker
communism proved unbiological, a handicap in the struggle for existence; that it gave insufficient stimulus to inventiveness, industry and thrift; and that the failure to reward the more able, and punish the less able, made for a leveling of capacity which was hostile to growth or to successful competition with other groups.
~ Will Durant
The great majority of men are natural dunces and sluggards; in any system whatever these men will sink to the bottom; and to help them with state subsidies is "like pouring water into a leaking cask." Such people must be ruled in politics and directed in industry; with their consent if possible, without it if necessary.
~ Will Durant
believed that communism proved unbiological, a handicap in the struggle for existence; that it gave insufficient stimulus to inventiveness, industry and thrift; and that the failure to reward the more able, and punish the less able, made for a leveling of capacity which was hostile to growth or to successful competition with other groups.
~ Will Durant
or concepts the publisher doesn't like) are not as sure to sell as the tried and true. On this, see Brian Martin, The Politics of Research
~ William Badke
Our political economy and our high-energy industry run on large, general principles, on ideas — not by day-to-day guess work, expedients and improvisations. Ideas have to go into exchange to become or remain operative; and the medium of such exchange is the printed word.
~ William F. Buckley
We find that in the absence of demonstrable truth, the best we can do is to exercise the greatest diligence, humility, insight, intelligence, and industry in trying to arrive at the nearest values to truth. I hope, of course, to argue convincingly that having done this, we have an inescapable duty to seek to inculcate others with these values.
~ William F. Buckley Jr.
The whole industry wobbles along like a shopping cart with a missing wheel. You can only keep it moving if you lean on it a certain way and keep pushing, but if you stop, it tips over.
~ William Gibson
Far more creativity, today, goes into marketing of products than into the products themselves
~ William Gibson
Nobody knows anything...... Not one person in the entire motion picture field knows for a certainty what's going to work. Every time out it's a guess and, if you're lucky, an educated one.
~ William Goldman
There is no device whatever to be invented for securing happiness without industry, economy, and virtue.
~ William Graham Sumner
The laborer likewise gains by carrying on his labor in a strong, highly civilized, and well-governed State far more than he could gain with equal industry on the frontier or in the midst of anarchy. He
~ William Graham Sumner
In the kitchen there is a table, center. On it are piled dirty dishes from supper the night before. Woodwork in the kitchen is dark and grimy. No industry whatsoever has been spent in making it one of those white, cheerful rooms that we commonly think kitchens should be.
~ William Inge
The film industry, Crafts charged, was in the hands of "the devil and 500 non-Christian Jews
~ William J. Mann
One of them was Fritz Thyssen, one of the earliest and biggest contributors to the party. Fleeing the Nazi regime has ruined German industry. And to all he met abroad he proclaimed, What a fool ( Dummkopf ) I was!
~ William L. Shirer
recognized that the "Nazi regime has ruined German industry." And to all he met abroad he proclaimed, "What a fool [Dummkopf] I was!"15
~ William L. Shirer
As Nigeria continues to dither over the Petroleum Industry Bill, which has been in the Nigerian National Assembly since 2009 as aforementioned, Ghana her neighbour (who just joined the Petroleum Club not too long ago) on August 4 2016 passed its own petroleum bill, i.e. the Petroleum (Exploration and Production) Bill, 2016 into law in a bid to attract investments. Chika Onuegbu in his 2016 paper titled The Challenges and Implications of a Post PIB Nigeria for the Oil and Gas Workers
~ Chika Onuegbu
What if most fiction is, at best, moderately important? What if it is so vague and culturally drivel-some, and so mediated by everything else once the culture industry extrudes it through a writer-shaped nozzle, that our stern declarations about subversive literature are, mostly, kind of adorable?
~ China Mieville
In 2020, the global video games market reached $180 billion. By comparison, in the movie business, world box office revenues were $42 billion in 2019 (pre-COVID), while world
~ Chip Heath
In 2020, the global video games market reached $180 billion. By comparison, in the movie business, world box office revenues were $42 billion in 2019 (pre-COVID), while world music revenues were $22 billion.
~ Chip Heath
Blockbusters are the exception, not the rule, and yet we see an entire industry through their rarefied air.
~ Chris Anderson
And what's interesting about the hybrids taking off is you've now introduced electric motors to the automobile industry. It's the first radical change in automobile technology in 100 years.
~ Chris Anderson