Quotes About Modernization

Putting Zodiacs in front of whaling vessels doesn't do it anymore. Done that, been there, seen that.

All the technology of our production was still pre-War. They were sort of '38, '39 and the War had been stable and so we were infinitely behind whatever had been going on in the United States for instance.

In the old days, you would chastise people for reinventing the wheel. Now we beg, 'Oh, please, please reinvent the wheel.'

McDonald's revolutionized fast food. They introduced a way to eat food without knives, forks or plates. Most fast foods can be eaten while steering the wheel of a car and the restaurants are usually drive through.

When steam first began to pump and wheels go round at so many revolutions per minute, what are called business habits were intended to make the life of man run in harmony with the steam engine, and his movement rival the train in punctuality.

When my first film 'The Seventh Continent' was presented here 12 years ago, non-Austrian spectators would come up to me and say, 'Is Austria that terrible?', whereas for me it wasn't about Austria but about highly industrialised cultures everywhere.

The day of parochialism in sports is over. The world is too small for what people like to call 'the good old days.' Fans want the best, wherever they come from.

It is clear that while our Army was engaged in Afghanistan and Iraq, Russia studied U.S. capabilities and vulnerabilities and embarked on an ambitious and largely successful modernization effort.

We will pay a heavy price if we insist on navigating the 21st century with a 20th century mindset.

Technology is the devil, and the more technology you have, the higher the price you pay.

We have a legal immigration system that's outdated, it's primarily based on whether you have family members living here. In the 21st century, it has to be more of a merit-based system, and that is why our legal immigration system is in need of modernization.

So actually I only got a mobile phone the day after I left being Prime Minister.

One of the main priorities of Russia's economic policy is to create conditions and form our own financial resources for economic modernisation.

I have been busy working in order to make agriculture a priority sector not on a small scale, but into an agro-based industry.

The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.

Our message in NSW is government don't need to run businesses that are out of date when the private sector can do that better.

I'm basically an optimist because I do think there's this historical modernisation process, and by and large it's been very beneficial to people. But there are blips. History doesn't proceed in a linear way.

Whatever I did in 1960, half a century ago, I couldn't do that today and enter the field. The field has changed so much, you have to adapt to the times whatever you're doing. That's the reality of life: you have to be a different person today than you had to be then.

We play it differently now. If we did the album now it would be different.

ATM is still a cash channel; we want to migrate it to the digital channel.

By the 2010s, almost everybody in the developed world, it seemed, had a powerful digital device that took little or no special skills or training to use.

Digital is the only way to get rid of corruption and unaccounted cash.

I think the game's evolving - it always is. You don't want to be a dinosaur. You want to evolve with it.

It is necessary to diversify or improve the role of Gimpo airport.