Quotes About Modernization

I'm a total technophobe. What is wrong with paper and pen? I was delighted when I learnt the word 'Luddite,' as I thought it described me perfectly.

When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.

that this form of electricity would ever be available in non-metropolitan areas.

The American sign of civic progress is to tear down the familiar and erect the monstrous.

Nobody rides trains anymore!

India is not, as people keep calling it, an underdeveloped country, but rather, in the context of its history and cultural heritage, a highly developed one in an advanced state of decay.

Each time I come it's amazing to watch the development of this incredible country [China].

It is high time that we had lights that are not incendiary torches.

A lot of [bureaucratic] rules were created a long time ago when there were different challenges, and they are now causing negative side effects.

... when I hear people say that penmanship is dead, my response: it's about time.

That's how things are these days: everything must move aside to make room for the new, all the time.

The problem with new is you don't have time for the old ones.

she might have been pretty when she started out, but the world had moved on since then.

Saving time is one of the great superpowers you can unlock in the modern era.

The world changes fast, and a lot of the old country folks have a hard time keeping up with it, and it makes them sad.

Education technology and school construction go together. Modernization, updating education facilities, and making a capital investment in education are all included.

The world has become so complex that the idea of a power in which everything comes together and can be controlled in a centralized way is now erroneous.

In 1900, the average American spent $76 of every $100 on food, clothing and shelter. Today he spends $37.

Scientists now tell us that evolution has been supplanted on this planet by culture. Human culture moves at so rapid a pace that it has far outrun and outstripped the natural processes of change and adaptation. This

Catholicism has had some branding issues these last few decades

pipes and wires, a web of rails that went off into black holes where green and red lights hung as distant drops of color. There was nothing else, nothing to dilute it, so that one could admire

in a climate of constant technological change.

Everyone, from software writer to accountant, was now subject to the same insecurities as the "lonely salesman" once targeted by Norman Vincent Peale.

We gave up the aroma of warm bread rising, the measured pace of nurturing routines, the creative task of molding our families' tastes and zest for life; we received in exchange the minivan and the Lunchable.