Quotes About Modernization

Those who refuse to liberalise and globalise are doomed to failure.

Let's overwhelm the Castro regime with iPhones, iPads, American cars and American ingenuity.

Look at what the Omar of Qatar is doing, for example - the King of Morocco, Jordan, Bahrain. There are reform movements taking place, efforts to broaden the political participation of the populations of the region.

By the end of 2020, the only region of the world that will still have a lot of 2G connections may be Africa.

I'm the first secretary of labor in the 21st century, and the competitiveness of the American work force and the modernization of decades-old regulations have been among our top priorities.

We must advance regulatory reforms.

We didn't reinvent the circus. We repackaged it in a much more modern way.

We're trying to reinvent Bond. He's 28 - no Q, no gadgets.

I don't entirely reject the idea of efficient markets. It needs updating.

I relate more to the fact that 80-inch plasma has just started to become ubiquitous and in people's homes the fairly decent 5.1 sound system and the big screen isn't that out of reach.

It is astounding how evolved and progressed India has become. It is holding on to its extraordinary rich culture and becoming global and Western at the same time.

For a homebody like me, the evolution of gadgets has been a blessing.

Technology is a huge part of our lives and it's only a matter of time that it becomes a part of every corner of your home, even part of something like furniture.

We were the first human beings who would never see anything for the first time. We stare at the wonders of the world, dull-eyed, underwhelmed. Mona Lisa, the Pyramids, the Empire State Building. Jungle animals on attack, ancient icebergs collapsing, volcanoes erupting. I can't recall a single amazing thing I have seen firsthand that I didn't immediately reference to a movie or TV show. A fucking commercial. You know the awful singsong of the blasé: Seeeen it.

It is a do-it-yourself era: health care, real estate, police investigation. Go online and fucking figure it out for yourself because everyone's overworked and understaffed.

I know things are changing, but they don't change everywhere at the same speed. Down here time moves on the different clock. Down here it's still forty years ago, in some ways.

Until the late 1950s Britain's leaders were slow to appreciate the social and economic value of motorways. The first stretch of German Autobahn had opened before the first world war, as did the first highway in the U.S. Other countries followed suit in the inter-war years.

Registration is a World War II response, and we need a 1980 solution.

I have never worried about 'Frontline' becoming an old-fashioned news brand, because we never were.

What worries me is the professionalism of everything.

I'm sure some people will say, 'Why do this?' And my response is, 'Why wouldn't you?' The film business in general is using a model that is outdated and, worse than that, inefficient.

That the way to achieve higher standards of living for all is through science and technology, taking advantage of better tools, methods and organization.

I'm pretty quick to delete something off of my phone if it's become obsolete. And things like RSS readers have made life easier - all of the headlines are going to be related to a topic I'm interested in.

When we finally become total slaves of mobile phones, then maybe theatre will die.