Quotes About Modernization

Physical money, whether it's checks or cash or credit card, are digitizing in front of us.

We're trying to run a 21st century society and economy with 19th century Darwinian, competitive, crude ideas.

Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.

Fancy GPS systems and space-age tractors are what most excite the farmers I know and astound their city friends.

We didn't make the first mp3, smartphone, or tablet. But you can say we made the first modern mp3, smartphone, and tablet. And I think now we're making the first modern smartwatch.

The world has shifted to the palm of our hand, or a tablet. We hadn't been investing in 'Quicken' that way.

Football tactics are rapidly becoming as complicated as the chemical formula for splitting the atom.

Taiwan has been so well developed economically. But we are underdeveloped culturally.

Workplaces still operate like it's 1962 and one person is always at home, and they are not very good at adjusting for the fact that a majority of women work and take care of children.

Many of the things that we take for granted around the table, like cashing a check or just paying a bill or sending money to somebody you love, is very time consuming.

The Taliban may pine for a pre-industrial society, but most Afghans do not.

The difference between a reporter, a newspaper columnist, a paid speaker, a television personality, a radio talk show host, a blogger, a movie producer, a publicist, and a political strategist, is growing less - and not more - distinct.

playing with the Barbie-size keyboard on my new phone. Phones are like toys now. They fit in your pocket, light up and vibrate like joy buzzers. Plus, you can get-I mean, "access"-the Internet and find anything you want. Music. Maps. Porn. Anything. If cell phones came with a cigarette dispenser, they'd be the greatest stupid invention ever.

On mobile phones: "It looks like a TV remote fucked a little typewriter and this is the bastard offspring

Innovation is the name of the game;

The more high tech we become the more nature we need.

The rulings of the past do not always apply in the present.

L'électricité est réellement le sang de la civilisation.

We are advancing into a post-professional society.

F. Kennedy, y repito sus palabras en este momento. Escribo esencialmente para los jóvenes de espíritu, para los enérgicos, para los optimistas; para aquellos que convengan conmigo en reconocer que podemos y debemos modernizar (actualmente me gusta decir "mejorar") nuestro sistema jurídico y nuestro sistema de justicia.

Mi llamada es a los jóvenes de espíritu, sin perjuicio de su edad" dijo una vez John F. Kennedy, y repito sus palabras en este momento. Escribo esencialmente para los jóvenes de espíritu, para los enérgicos, para los optimistas; para aquellos que convengan conmigo en reconocer que podemos y debemos modernizar (actualmente me gusta decir "mejorar") nuestro sistema jurídico y nuestro sistema de justicia. La

Mi llamada es a los jóvenes de espíritu, sin perjuicio de su edad" dijo una vez John F. Kennedy, y repito sus palabras en este momento. Escribo esencialmente para los jóvenes de espíritu, para los enérgicos, para los optimistas; para aquellos que convengan conmigo en reconocer que podemos y debemos modernizar (actualmente me gusta decir "mejorar") nuestro sistema jurídico y nuestro sistema de justicia.

We need change. I mean, our traditions are important. We shouldn't give up on those. But sometimes, I think we're misguided." "Misguided?" "As time's gone on, we've gone along with other changes. We've evolved. Computers. Electricity. Technology in general. We all agree those make our lives better. Why can't we be the same in the way we act? Why are we still clinging to the past when there are better ways to do things?

Despite its efforts to modernize its plants and make them competitive, one sees a gradual withdrawal from those arenas