Quotes About Modernization

bewildering patchwork of technologies that are inefficient, hard to change, and rigid.

We saw the new gymnasium and the new science labs and the newly expanded library and the new theater arts building and a lot of coeds with moussed hair and bright plastic hair clips and skin cancer tans.

But that was back in the twentieth century, in the dark ages

Det kan kastes meget tid bort på telegrafen.

Det er mit inderligste ønske at du som vordende lærer ikke må undervise i det 4de bud. Du vet naturligvis, at vi er kommet ned i det 20de Århundrede.

Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.

Our industry does not respect tradition - it only respects innovation.

The user interface on the iPhone, with all due respect for what this invention was all about is now five years old.

The governmental tortoise cannot keep up with the technological hare.

For the first time in history, more people die today from eating too much than from eating too little; more people die from old age than from infectious diseases; and more people commit suicide than are killed by soldiers, terrorists and criminals combined. In the early twenty-first century, the average human is far more likely to die from bingeing at McDonald's than from drought, Ebola or an al-Qaeda attack. Hence

Radical Islam is in a far worse position than socialism. It has not yet come to terms even with the Industrial Revolution

capitalism too began as a very open-minded scientific theory but gradually solidified into a dogma. Many capitalists keep repeating the mantra "free markets and economic growth" irrespective of realities on the ground. No matter what awful consequences occasionally result from modernization, industrialization, or privatization, capitalist true believers dismiss them as mere "growing pains" and promise that everything will be made good through a bit more growth.

This is why we can still find ourselves between the pages of the Bible, in the writings of Confucius or within the tragedies of Sophocles and Euripides. These classics were created by humans just like us, hence we feel that they talk about us. In modern theatre productions, Oedipus, Hamlet and Othello may wear jeans and T-shirts and have Facebook accounts, but their emotional conflicts are the same as in the original play.

Unfortunately, what was good for survival and reproduction in the African savannah a million years ago does not necessarily make for responsible behaviour on twenty-first-century motorways

This raises the possibility that the immense improvement in material conditions over the last two centuries was offset by the collapse of the family and the community.

Pre-order is the new order

We have travelled a long distance from the cow with a bucket of raw milk under its udder. We are a long way from home.' This

Design has taken the place of what sailing used to be.

Anyone who can be replaced by a machine deserves to be.

They are always out of date, and no one follows them anyway.

How was life before Pop-Tarts, Prozac and padded playgrounds? They ate strudel, took opium and played on the grass.

It does sometimes seem as if the nineteenth century hasn't reached this part of the world yet." He

Sometimes, Spiro missed the times when a troublesome worker would be thrown out a high window and that was the end of him. These days, if you threw someone out of a window, they'd phone their lawyer on the way down.

The decline of handicrafts in modern times is perhaps one of the causes for the rise of frustration