Quotes About Modernization

Ever-busy, ever-building, ever-in-motion, ever-throwing-out the old for the new, we have hardly paused to think about what we are so busy building, and what we have thrown away. Meanwhile, the everyday landscape becomes more nightmarish and unmanageable each year.

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Modernization, instead, strengthens those cultures and reduces the relative power of the West. In fundamental ways, the world is becoming more modern and less Western.

Physical Automobile Dealerships Were Fine Around The Era When Henry Ford Invented The Assembly Line

I don't think it's time yet to eliminate cash, but I propose having a less-cash society, not a cashless one.

You got to do what's happening today in the world. You got to keep up with time. Keep up to date, keep modern - keep up on your toes!

I'm amazed every time I come back to Vancouver at how much it's changed. You go away for a month and there's three more skyscrapers.

Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.

The truth is, homes change over time — and technology has to adapt, not try to do everything at once.

The startings and arrivals of the cars are now the epochs in the village day.

Why the hell do I have to keep updating my apps on my iPhone all the time and why you don't fix that?

It is important to show people ways that we can reclaim Christianity from some of the misunderstandings of our time.

We are in an electronic technology age now and it's about time we put away the old stuff.

Sometimes we spend more time than we should defending the old thing, instead of working to take advantage of the new thing.

automóviles, edificios desiguales y descoloridos, esqueletos de avisos luminosos flotando en la neblina, el mediodía gris. ¿En qué momento se había jodido el Perú?

Arévalo quisiera hacer de Guatemala una democracia, como los Estados Unidos, país que admira y tiene como modelo. Los soñadores suelen ser peligrosos, y en este sentido el doctor Arévalo lo es. Su proyecto no tiene la menor posibilidad de realizarse. ¿Cómo se podría convertir en una democracia moderna un país de tres millones de habitantes, el setenta por ciento de los cuales son indios analfabetos que apenas han salido del paganismo, o todavía

Pese a ello, la mentalidad tribal y la tentación colectivista de desaparecer al individuo dentro de una colectividad supuestamente homogénea e idéntica están lejos de haber sido superadas. Ellas retornan, de manera cíclica, como amenazas constantes a nuestra modernización y a que América Latina asuma, con todas sus consecuencias, la cultura de la libertad.

How do you bomb a nation into the Stone Age when, in modern industrial terms, they are not that far removed from it?

all government work, including that stored in libraries, to be switched from parchment to paper.

But that's Islam in the third millennium: they want the certainties of seventh-century society with the conveniences of the twenty-first century.

Food equaled utilitarian fuel, pure and simple. The new Soviet citizen was to be liberated from fussy dining and other such distractions from his grand modernizing project. Novy sovetsky chelovek. The New Soviet Man!

There was little work left of a routine, mechanical nature. Men's minds were too valuable to waste on tasks that a few thousand transistors, some photo-electric cells, and a cubic meter of printed circuits could perform.

Verdaderamente que esa palabra de periódico resultaba un anacrónico pegote en la era de la electrónica. El texto era puesto al momento automáticamente cada hora

Someone once said that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.