“Girly’ products can spur Japan’s growth in this century every bit as much as, if not more than, the ‘manly’ technologies.”

“For belligerent purposes, the 14th century, like the 20th, commanded a technology more sophisticated than the mental and moral capacity that guided its use.”

“... economic growth is driven by supply factors such as improved technologies and access to more or better resources.”

“History is much more the product of chaos than of conspiracy”

“It’s far too rarely stated that the technology industry is not in the business of making people productive. It is only in the business of selling more technology.”

“The great proliferation of museums in the nineteenth century was a product of the marriage of the exhibition as a way of awakening intelligent interest in the visitor with the growth of collections that was associated with empire and middle-class affluence. Attendance at museums was as much associated with moral improvement as with explanation of the human or natural world.”