Quotes About Modernization

Mourning the loss of the phone call is like pining for buggy driving or women in hats or three-martini lunches. They've gone.

Agriculture needs to be modernized so as to give work to youth, women and men from the country.

Joe Biden is a backwards thinker in a world craving forward-looking leadership.

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

We're a superpower with a Third World grid.

Thomas Friedman's 'The World is Flat' sold more copies in India than in the U.K. The market for go-getting business books or wonkish tomes by corporate moguls posing as philosopher kings has grown dramatically in modernising China and India.

In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion.

Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue.

The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow.

Christendom has done away with Christianity without being quite aware of it.

No tradition, however time-honoured, deserves to live on as anything more than a museum piece if it has outlived its relevance.

Education is the only business still debating the usefulness of technology.

We're changing the world with technology.

Technology is constantly changing and brings you automatically into the present. In that way, it automatically makes you build for this time.

We've got 21st century technology and speed colliding head-on with 20th and 19th century institutions, rules and cultures.

The world used to think we are a land of snake charmers and black magic. But our youth has surprised the world with its IT [information technology] skills. I dream of a digital India.

There are things I admire, for example, about South Korea or Singapore. I admire their history, their development and how intensively they have invested in their people and in technology.

We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

Holding back technology to reserve business models is like allowing blacksmiths to veto the internal combustion engine in order to protect their horseshoes.

I don't believe [Africa] is ready to shift - and she needs to shift. So she needs to get the technology and she can only get that technology from the developed world.

Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.

In spite of advances in technology and changes in the economy, state government still operates on an obsolete 1970s model. We have a typewriter government in an Internet age.

People live longer today than they ever have. They live happier lives, have more knowledge, more information. All this is the result of communications technology. How is any of that bad?

Twenty years ago the computer was a babbling box. Now it is a boasting beast.