#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

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

Does any art have a practical value? People love to talk about how expensive a painting is. That's the only way we can talk about paintings in this century. ↗

— John Guare

#any #art #century #does #expensive

Manhattan... capital of the 20th century, a city that has fascinated me for more than three decades. ↗

— Jurgen Habermas

#capital #century #city #decades #fascinated

One of the great defects of English books printed in the last century is the want of an index. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#century #defects #english #great #index

I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century. ↗

— David Hockney

#any #century #doubt #greatest #i