Century Change Quotes

Given that the nineteenth century was the century of Socialism, of Liberalism, and of Democracy, it does not necessarily follow that the twentieth century must also be a century of Socialism, Liberalism and Democracy: political doctrines pass, but humanity remains, and it may rather be expected that this will be a century of authority ... a century of Fascism. For if the nineteenth century was a century of individualism it may be expected that this will be the century of collectivism and hence the century of the State.

The century of airplanes has a right to its own music.

I really didn't foresee the Internet. But then, neither did the computer industry. Not that that tells us very much of course--the computer industry didn't even foresee that the century was going to end.

A century of convulsive change leaves huge demographic gouge marks.

I wrote an ad for Apple Computer: "Macintosh - We might not get everything right, but at least we knew the century was going to end".

I am confident that the next century will be better than this one.

As times change, so government must change. We need a new government for a new century

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

That's a chapter - the last chapter - of the 20th ... 20th ... the 21st century that most of us would rather forget. The last chapter of the 20th century. This is the first chapter of the 21st century.

And this tenderness was not like That which a certain poet At the beginning of the century called true And, for some reason, quiet. No, not at all— It rang out, like the first waterfall, It crunched like the crust of bluish ice And it prayed with a swanlike voice, And it broke down right before our eyes.

I reckon that women looked their best at the turn of the century.

I've always wanted to do a period movie, to do something the turn of the century, and I'm really fascinated by that whole time period.

The world has changed far more in the past 100 years than in any other century in history. The reason is not political or economic but technological-technologies that flowed directly from advances in basic science. Clearly, no scientist better represents those advances than Albert Einstein: TIME's Person of the Century.

Instead of sailing off into the sunset, he hopes to sail into the next century.

None of today’s leading indicators existed a century ago. They were invented to measure the economies of the industrial nation-states of the mid-20th Century… The 21st Century, however, is proving more difficult to measure.

Aging will create the music of the coming century.

Round my cradle shimmered the last moonbeams of the eighteenth century and the first morning rays of the nineteenth.

In the end, the railroads made America and nanotech will make the 21st century, and that is the end of the story. The beginning of the story and the end of the story.

Winter makes a bridge between one year and another and, in this case, one century and the next.

The 21st-century mix of jobs is probably going to be different than the 20th-century mix.

Twentieth pupil of the centuries knows its stuff and bird-changed this century like Jesus climbs the sky.

The Europe we are in the process of building is the Europe of the 21st century; it's not the Europe of the 20th century.

I was born in 1929, and in the 50 years from 1930 to 1980, I've been able to live an unbelievably varied century. Before, you could never have seen such intense change in a 50-year span.

The intelligent minority of this world will mark 1 January 2001 as the real beginning of the 21st century and the Third Millennium.

I shall confess at the outset that it was only shortly after the beginning of this century that I entered active life - with a somewhat precocious capacity for involvement.