Quotes About Modernization

Indians have become very demanding. Gone are the days where you could get away with power outages.

I'm not an early adopter of technology unless I consider it absolutely indispensable.

Latecomers to industrial development have had to catch up by finding ways of closing the gap.

Open-faced, traditional, wood-burning fireplaces are very inefficient.

The power and energy sectors are the biggest constituents of the infrastructure sector. If you ignore them, no development will happen.

We believe infrastructure is key to economic growth, and we will do what we can to develop infrastructure in India.

We want the brand of Accenture to be innovation.

I've been inspired by Coco Chanel. She broke all the rules of her time when she was designing. She pretty much revolutionized the way that women dressed at the time, and in doing that, she modernized the way they looked because they could move more freely in their clothes.

I'm working on bringing the instant film camera back as part of the future.

In the year 3000, everything will be instant.

As the society has gotten larger and more complex, individuals have lost their ability to influence any of the institutions that affect their lives.

It is difficult, if not impossible, to argue that laws written in the 1970s are adequate for today's intelligence challenges.

Well, when we made 'Tron' there was no internet, no cellphones.

You have a system that washes, dries, folds, and puts clothes away? Forget your hydrogen scoop engine, we'd kill for something like that on Earth!

The average American school lags twenty-five years behind the best practice" (Mort, 1953).

Ay, si hoy viviera Cuervo y oyera en lo que se convirtió esto! ¡Wow! «Wow» es la interjección de asombro que está hoy de moda. La tomaron del inglés. Suena como un perro ladrando. Hasta las interjecciones están anglizadas. Nos putiaron el idioma.

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

In some churches today and on some religious television programs, we see the attempt to make Christianity popular and pleasant. We have taken the cross away and substituted cushions.

It is difficult, if not impossible, to argue that laws written in the 1970s are adequate for today's intelligence challenges.

I realize I don't do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to.

that's no longer necessary.

Not quite so long ago as a generation, there was no panting giant here, no heaving, grimy city . . . there was time to live.

But why bother?" asked Weng Kim. "That is exactly the point, Weng Kim. We are Chinese, and Chinese people do bother. Thais were still eating rice with their fingers fifty years ago, and now they use whatever the foreigners use. We have used chopsticks since ancient times; they worked better for the purpose intended than fingers did then, and better than forks and spoons do now.

Some scholars in recent years have expressed a certain wonderment that "religion is back"; the wonder is rather that it was thought ever to have departed, apart from the "scholarly wish fulfillment" or projections of those who accepted classic theories of modernization and secularization.30