Quotes About Modernization

I don't want to be part of ideas which are regressive and put us on the back foot.

We have come a very, very long way and Michael Bloomberg has been at the forefront of that change.

Politics is no longer being fought on traditional political lines.

I'm not one of those freaks who can't see anything past 1977.

What you can do is present existing flavors in a fresh way, in a fresh context.

Chinese buildings are like American buildings, with big footprints. People don't care about daylight or fresh air.

I always make sure that every film of mine has some element of freshness to it.

I can now video chat with my grandkids from any corner of the world, listen to music, or order food and have it delivered to my front door.

Traditional cricket has gone out of the window. It's gone. T20 cricket has changed the game.

Today we're more distanced from each other, the bonds formed at the local shop replaced by the massive supermarket or the stressed driver thrusting a package through a letterbox. Instead of meeting in pubs, more of us sit at home with supermarket wine and Netflix.

Many past products advertised in old publications can be profitably promoted all over again. Sometimes, just by giving them a new twist or modern application, you'll hit a real winner.

The old rules and the old methods of winning are gone.

Our leaders have the solemn obligation to know the proper steps to take before acting upon them, and building a wall from the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf Coast of Texas is a third-century solution to a 21st-century problem.

In the long term, expanding and modernizing I-27 through the Texas Panhandle will promote growth by connecting rural areas to the federal Interstate Highway system, strengthen avenues for trade which is particularly advantageous for TX-13's agriculture industry, increase safety, and save billions in travel costs.

I definitely taught my parents how to text and how to charge their phones.

I don't think I've ever sent a text to Gordon Brown because I'm confident that he would absolutely have no idea how to receive it. He barely managed to master WordPerfect 4.1.

I've never sent an email in my life. My kids laugh. I often hand the phone to them and say, 'Can you text this message to somebody.' I don't even have a computer on my desk.

I would absolutely love to go back to the simplicity of the '80s, where there wasn't texting, social media, iPhones, or smartphones. I love the fact that you would go home and check your messages. I'm not well suited to the world of modern technology.

Comedy has changed with the times, thank God - slowly, oh my lord, slowly - but it has.

I just thank God my husband and I found each other before the advent of social media. I can't imagine dating someone and seeing what they're doing on their Facebook page. And people breaking up with each other over texts now? We had to break up with each other face to face back then.

The one thing we know today is we can't continue to do business the way we have in the past.

To try to teach ignoring technology is to ignore the progress that we have made over the last century. If school is preparation for the real world - a real world that is increasingly technology-driven - then to ignore technology is to become obsolete.

It's important to move the theatre into the 21st Century.

That is, we will repeatedly suggest that as denominations have modernized their doctrines and embraced temporal values, they have gone into decline.