#century

The telephone is a 100-year-old technology. It's time for a change. Charging for phone calls is something you did last century. ↗

— Niklas Zennstrom

#calls #century #change #charging #did

My music is all about an idealistic human personality. I have 19th-century ideals. ↗

— Gordon Getty

#about #human #human personality #i #idealistic

When Edward Gibbon was writing about the fall of the Roman Empire in the late 18th century, he could argue that transportation hadn't changed since ancient times. An imperial messenger on the Roman roads could get from Rome to London even faster in A.D. 100 than in 1750. But by 1850, and even more obviously today, all of that has changed. ↗

— Walter Russell Mead

#about #ancient #ancient times #argue #century

The two major challenges for the 21st century are to improve the economic situation of the majority and save as much of the planet as we can. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#century #challenges #economic #economic situation #improve

In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre; they are, at the same time, poetry, criticism, narrative, drama, etc. ↗

— Juan Goytisolo

#century #conceptual #criticism #drama #etc

The question is what will Mitt Romney do as president if his policy is simply to be hands off and let the government be made so small it can be drowned in a bathtub. In the 21st century global economy, no state alone has the ability to compete against China. ↗

— Jennifer Granholm

#ability #against #alone #bathtub #century

For most of the 20th century, we didn't just enjoy economic success in Michigan, we defined it. Our innovators and entrepreneurs created the world's most productive companies, and our unions made sure that productivity led to broad middle class prosperity. ↗

— Jennifer M. Granholm

#broad #century #class #companies #created

The 20th Century was the century of Aviation and the century of Globalization. The next century will be the century of Space. ↗

— Wilson Greatbatch

#aviation #century #globalization #next #space

The leadership lost its nerve. Instead of taking the lead in the reform movement... they pulled the plug on it. They tried and are still trying to return the church to the dry ice of the previous century and a half. ↗

— Andrew Greeley

#church #dry #half #ice #instead

Investing in industries and technology for the 21st century generates high-skilled, high-wage jobs for industries of the future. ↗

— Jay Inslee

#century #future #generates #high-wage #industries