“From the 9th to the 15th centuries, the area which is now modern Spain was home to the greatest peaceful agglomeration of cultures ever known in the post-literate worldEven more remarkable than the flowering of art itself was the confluence of cultures that produced it: under the rule of Islam, Muslims, Jews and Christians lived and worked together in relative harmony.” ArtHomeChristianTogetherCultureKnownModernCenturyAreasHarmonyIslamJewPeacefulPostsRemarkableRelativeSpainFloweringConfluence Author:Maya Beiser
“If you want to get an interesting perspective do not think of Hugh as a traditional 20th century physicist but more of a Renaissance man with interests and skills in many different areas. He was smart and lots of things interested him and he brought the same general conceptual methodology to solve them. The subject matter was not so important as the solution ideas.” IfsThinkingMenWantImportantIdeasDifferentMatterInterestInterestingSubjectsCenturyPerspectiveSkillsSmartSolutionsAreasSolveTraditional20th CenturyPhysicistRenaissanceSubject MatterMethodologyRenaissance Man Author:Hugh Everett III
“Also, an area that interests me - and it will probably take years to state what I mean - is the period of the rise of democracy, with Tom Paine, which is around the turn of the 18th century into the 19th.” YearsMeanStatesTurnsInterestDemocracyCenturyPeriodsAreasToms18th CenturyPaineTom Paine Author:Fiona Shaw
“All of the progress that the US has made over the last couple of centuries has come from unemployment. It has come from figuring out how to produce more goods with fewer workers, thereby releasing labor to be more productive in other areas. It has never come about through permanent unemployment, but temporary unemployment, in the process of shifting people from one area to another.” PeopleMadeLastsProcessProgressCenturyProduceCoupleAreasEconomicsLaborWorkersPermanentProductiveGoodsTemporaryFewerUnemploymentShifting Author:Milton Friedman
“I know that I come from mid-20th century America, urban, specifically downtown New York, specifically an Italian-American area, Roman Catholic - that's who I am. And a part of what I know is there's a decency to people who tried to make a living in the kind of world that was around us and also the Skid Row area of the Bowery; it impressed me.” PeopleKnowsWorldKindAmericaCenturyNew YorkAreasCatholicWho I AmItalianImpressedUrban20th CenturyDecencyDowntownRoman CatholicItalian AmericanSkid Row Author:Martin Scorsese
“What's interesting to me is that in the late twentieth century it seems that there's scarcely a part of the world that doesn't have some capitalist return that can be realized providing that this area's made accessible and resources can be extracted from it.” WorldMadeSeemsInterestingCenturyReturnLateResourcesAreasCapitalistProvidingTwentieth Century Author:James C. Scott
“This century is going to be linked with the virtual world. Maybe in the days to come we will have virtual malls and digital manufacturing. Change is coming fast and we need our urban areas to keep pace with these changes.” WorldNeedsCenturyAreasIndiaDigitalPaceUrbanLinkedManufacturingMallsVirtual WorldUrban AreasDays To Come Author:Narendra Modi
“Well, the first thing I had to do was to read a lot. First of all, about education... and looking at education from the Middle Ages right through to the 20th Century. The second major area was country life in the 19th Century, which I don't know much about these days.” KnowsFirstsWellsCountryAgeMiddleCenturyMajorsAreasThese Days20th CenturyMiddle Ages19th CenturyCountry Life Author:Michael Haneke
“Evaluating countries is senseless and I would never put things in those terms, but that some of America's advances, particularly in the area of free speech, that have been achieved by centuries of popular struggle, are to be admired.” Has BeensCountryAmericaTermStruggleCenturySpeechAreasFree Speech Author:Noam Chomsky
“We need to reverse three centuries of walling the for-profit and non-profit sectors off from one another. When you think for-profit and non-profit, you most often think of entities with either zero social return or zero return on capital and zero social return. Clearly, there's some opportunity in the spectrum between those extremes. What's missing is the for-profit finance industry coming in to that area. Look at the enormous diversity of the for-profit financial industry as opposed to monolithic nature of the non-profit world; it's quite astonishing.” ThinkingWorldNeedsLooksThreeOpportunitySocialCenturyMissingIndustryReturnDiversityAreasFinancialProfitExtremesEnormousFinanceZeroEntityReverseSpectrumAstonishingNon ProfitSocial Entrepreneurship Author:Bill Drayton
“One chronicler writes of an area of India during the end of the 20th century: Almost no-one in this slum was poor by Indian benchmarks. ... True, a few residents trapped rats and frogs and fried them for dinner. A few ate the scrub grass at the sewage lake edge. And these individuals, miserable souls, thereby made an inestimable contribution to their neighbors. They gave those slum dwellers who didn't fry rats and eat weeds a sense of their upward mobility.” WritingMadeSoulEndsIndividualPoorCenturyAreasIndiaEdgesDinnerNeighborMiserableIndianGrassContributionLakesWeedTrappedRats20th CenturyFrogsResidentsMobilitySlumsDwellersSewageUpward Mobility Author:Katherine Boo
“It is not simply that these two cities are perched side by side at the edge of the Pacific; it is that adolescence sits next to middle age, and they don't know how to relate to each other. In a way, these two cities exist in different centuries. San Diego is a post-industrial city talking about settling down, slowing down, building clean industry. Tijuana is a preindustrial city talking about changing, moving forward, growing. Yet they form a single metropolitan area.” KnowsWayTwoDifferentAgeMovingFormNextSidesCitiesTalkingKnow HowGrowingMiddleCenturyBuildingIndustryAreasCleanEdgesMoving ForwardPostsRelateSettlingAdolescenceSlow DownMiddle AgesPacificSettling DownSlowingSan DiegoMetropolitanTijuana Author:Richard Rodriguez
“According to the management expert Peter F. Drucker, the term "entrepreneur" (from the French, meaning "one who takes into hand") was introduced two centuries ago by the French economist Jean-Baptiste Say to characterize a special economic actor-not someone who simply opens a business, but someone who "shifts economic resources out of an area of lower and into an area of higher productivity and greater yield." The twentieth-century growth economist Joseph A. Schumpeter characterized the entrepreneur as the source of the "creative destruction" necessary for major economic advances.” TwoHandsActorsGrowthTermCreativeGreaterEconomicSpecialCenturySourceHigherMajorsResourcesAreasDestructionManagementEntrepreneurProductivityExpertsYieldPeterEconomistTwentieth CenturyCreative DestructionEconomic Resources Book:How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas Source: How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas
“The initial spark that promoted me to start Not For Sale was human trafficking in the San Francisco Bay Area. This led me to take a journey around the world on how this could exist in the 21st century.” WorldHumansJourneyCenturyAreasAround The WorldSparks21st CenturyInitialsSan FranciscoHuman TraffickingTraffickingBay Area Author:David Batstone
“Permafrost in the soil [is melting], in the boreal and arctic areas in the world, and, probably even more alarming in the last six or eight months, the data on what is happening to the ice shelves in Greenland and the west Antarctic has begun to cause people to radically reassess the earlier conviction that those ice shelves were stable on a kind of century-long time scale.” PeopleWorldKindLongLastsCausesCenturyMonthsSixLong TimeHappeningsAreasWestConvictionEightScalesIceDataSoilStableShelvesMeltingArcticGreenland Author:Bill McKibben
“Genetic modification has many different areas, for example in medicine, and Britain is at the leading edge of this new technology. I don't know, but people tell me, it could indeed by the leading science of the 21st century. All I say to people is: 'Just keep an open mind and let us proceed according to genuine scientific evidence.'” PeopleKnowsMindDifferentTechnologyCenturyExampleEvidenceAreasMedicineEdgesGenuineBritain21st CenturyOpen MindNew TechnologyModificationKeep An Open MindScientific Evidence Author:Tony Blair
“The appearance in nineteenth-century psychiatry, jurisprudence, and literature of a whole series of discourses on the species and subspecies of homosexuality, inversion, pederasty, and "psychic hermaphroditism" made possible a strong advance of social controls into this area of "perversity"; but it also made possible the formation of a "reverse" discourse: homosexuality began to speak in its own behalf, to demand that its legitimacy or "naturality" be acknowledged, often in the same vocabulary, using the same categories by which it was medically disqualified.” MadeWholeLiteratureSpeakStrongSocialCenturyDemandAreasSeriesSpeciesAppearanceCategoriesReverseHomosexualityDiscoursePsychicsVocabularyBehalfPsychiatryFormationNineteenth CenturyLegitimacyPerversitySocial ControlJurisprudenceInversions Author:Michel Foucault
“The melting pot failed to function in one crucial area. Religions and nationalities, however different, generally learned to live together, even to grow together, in America. But color was something else. Reds were murdered like wild animals. Yellows were characterized as a peril and incarcerated en masse during World War ii for no really good reason by our most liberal president. Browns have been abused as the new slave labor on farms. The blacks, who did not come here willingly, are now, more than a century after emancipation by Lincoln, still suffering a host of slave like inequalities.” WorldHas BeensStillsDifferentWarReasonTogetherAmericaSufferingGrowsPresidentAnimalCenturyColorAreasLaborFunctionSlaveImmigrationInequalityWar Of The WorldsPotFarmsCrucialHostWorld War IiWorld War IPerilNationalityMeltingEmancipationWild AnimalMelting PotSlave Labor Author:Theodore Hesburgh