Quotes About Modernization

The advent of cellphones may, in the end, be no more relevant than the ability of laptops to change our written documents into ones using cool new fonts.

We have rules that no longer are relevant to the world we're living in. Our regulatory system can't keep up.

With the rights now in our loving hands, I'm beyond excited to bring 'The Green Hornet' into the 21st century in a meaningful and relevant way: modernizing it and making it accessible to a whole new generation. My intention is to bring a gravitas to 'The Green Hornet' that wipes away the camp and kitsch of the previous iteration.

Technology has changed almost everything. One institution remains stubbornly anchored in the past. It's where I work - the United States Congress, a 19th Century institution using 20th Century technology to respond to 21st Century problems.

I embody the renewed monarchy for a new time.

My father was a progressive farmer, and was always ready to lay aside an old plough if he could replace it with one better constructed for its work. All through life, I have ever been ready to buy a better plough.

If LPs were replaced by cassettes and then audio cds and now digital media... That is inevitable. No point in lamenting.

Any time you stand in line at the D.M.V. and look around, you're like, Oh, my God, I wish all these people were replaced by computer drivers.

Cloud represents the maturation of the IT industry.

I think the East India Company represents what we would think of as a very modern approach to the world where everything was counted, every penny was counted.

I want to expand and not ignore the late 20th-century additions to filmed entertainment.

No consumer product improves more drastically, year after year, than the computer.

It's important to have IT knowledge; it's important to increase every government agency's IT capability.

As a result of the digital age and the decline of first-class mail, there is no question that the Postal Service must change and develop a new business model.

If you go back in time 18 years, I was driving the packages to the post office myself, and we were very primitive.

We used to build civilizations. Now we build shopping malls.

Folks, it's time to evolve. That's why we're troubled. You know why our institutions are failing us, the church, the state, everything's failing? It's because, um – they're no longer relevant. We're supposed to keep evolving. Evolution did not end with us growing opposable thumbs. You do know that, right?

Thirty years ago, we were in a movie theater and thought it was so cool because we were finally delivered from the horrors of stained glass and wooden pews.

I think about the automobile, I think about like, when I was a kid, you know, the invention of the answering machine, which I was like, 'Wow.' Or call waiting, which was, like, very big. It was a very big thing. Call waiting was a very big thing. And these incremental innovations happen constantly.

The days of just being a generic, punch-and-kick wrestler are pretty much over.

If cricket can be so glamorous and lucrative, I don't see why wrestling should lag behind.

Tourism is the chance to go and see what has been made trite… the same modernization that has deprived travel of its temporal aspect has likewise deprived it of the reality of space.

A sociedade modernizada até o estágio do espetacular integrado se caracteriza pela combinação de cinco aspectos principais: a incessante renovação tecnológica, a fusão econômico-estatal, o segredo generalizado, a mentira sem contestação e o presente perpétuo.

Miss Parkinson lived alone in a big bay-windowed house of Edwardian brick with a vast garden of decaying fruit trees and untidy hedges of gigantic size. She was great at making elderberry wine and bottling fruit and preserves and lemon curd and drying flowers for winter. She felt, like Halibut, that things were not as they used to be. The synthetic curse of modern times lay thick on everything. There was everywhere a sad drift from Nature.