Quotes About Modernization

You're thinking of Eurpoe as Germany and France. I don't. I think that's old Europe.

DONNA: Why do traditional organizing solutions and tools not work for them?

I declare! Sometimes it seems to me that every time a new piece of machinery comes into the door some of our wits fly out the window!

You have greater access to sanitation and clean water than ever before. To privacy, leisure, and artificial light. To transportation, communication, and computation. The list goes on and on.

I love the 3D revolution. I love the technology today that continues to push the envelope, continues break the new ground, and continues to raise the bar.

When you automate an industry you modernize it; when you automate a life you primitivize it.

GPS not only played a large and delocalizing role in the war in Kosovo but is increasingly playing a role in social life.

Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us.

Whatever, in fact, is modern in our life we owe to the Greeks. Whatever is an anachronism is due to mediaevalism.

The coolest thing about doing live shows is I'm able to give the songs a new life. So even thought they're old, I'm able to do them in a way that's modern.

Replacing "progress" with "innovation" skirts the question of whether a novelty is an improvement: the world may not be getting better and better but our devices are getting newer and newer.

in 1916, only 16 percent of Americans lived in homes with electricity, but by 1927, that percentage had risen to 63.118

The only difference between a pigeon and the American farmer today is that a pigeon can still make a deposit on a John Deere.

Technology has changed, and we need to figure out how to improve the archaic way of what makes a hit, or how to determine how many viewers are watching beyond some people with Nielsen boxes in a small percentage of homes in random areas.

It's hard to modernize a country kept in physical or ideological isolation.

Shit," Clutch said after a few minutes. "The high-def has totally ruined porn. Are those ingrown hairs?

At the end of the nineteenth century, economist Charlotte Perkins Gilman complained that housework was the only job that had not been modernized.)

Witches don't do that sort of thing anymore! In the old days they even used to have to go out and catch their own bats and toads and stuff to make their powders out of. Now it all comes out of bottles.'...'My mother sends for everything from the Witches' Market. That's located near the Never-Never Land. They send her a catalogue and she orders from that.

Over the past few decades many kinds of scholars have shown that allowing only human protagonists into our stories is not just ordinary human bias. It is a cultural agenda tied to dreams of progress through modernization.

Aqueles que admiravam as nossas coisas velhas, a bomba d'água no pátio, as casas normandas com viga de madeira aparente, certamente queriam nos impedir de ter o que eles já tinham, eles que eram tão modernos, com água na torneira e uma casa branca.

We often respond to today's world with yesterday's adaptations. (quoting Dan Fesster)

The world has changed profoundly since our programs were first established.

We live in a dominant culture of ceaseless Departure and Progress that has so far lasted two or three centuries.

A modern economy is marked by the feasibility of endogenous change: Modernization brings myriad arrangements from expanded property rights to company law and financial institutions.