All the technology of our production was still pre-War. They were sort of 38, 39 and the War had been stable and so we were infinitely behind whatever had been going on in the United States for instance. – Gianni Agnelli
And the buying of new machinery meant not only the possibility of production, but even the new technology, cos as I mentioned before, we were back of seven, eight years. – Gianni Agnelli
When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may we hope to comprehend the infinitudes of mans soul under formulas of Profit and Loss; and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances. – Thomas Carlyle
The only protection as a historian is to institute a process of research and writing that minimizes the possibility of error. And that I have tried to do, aided by modern technology, which enables me, having long since moved beyond longhand, to use a computer for both organizing and taking notes. – Doris Kearns Goodwin