Quotes About Modernization

Old gods do new jobs.

It was always cheaper to build a new 33-MegaLith circle than upgrade an old slow one.

Don't you talk to me about progress. Progress just means bad things happen faster.

These days everybody used the clacks, even little old ladies who used it to send him clacks messages complaining about all these newfangled ideas, totally missing the irony.

What had been urban and cosmopolitan in old Burma had vanished. And what was modern in the new Burma was alien. When the British quit and the Indians were forced to go, only village Burma would remain.

Hindi journalism is too dogmatic. I often wonder how it can be modernised.

Belgium is modernizing itself and it gives me joy.

Technologically things have changed, new softwares have come up. I am happy keeping myself abreast with time.

Women should let go their responsibilities of kitchen and should take coaching classes of how to give pleasure.

Korean people, including me, want to go faster and faster - in music, in fashion, in art, too.

I know being on a major label is meant to be antiquated, but we're fine with it.

For a chicken trapped inside the world of modern food manufacturing, to break out of the shell i sot enter a deeper darkness full of bewildering pain and suffering from birth to death.

I leaned closer, staring in through the glass. He'd refurnished the bookstore. How long had I been gone? There was my magazine rack, my cashier's counter, a new old-fashioned cash register, a small flat-screen TV/DVD player that was actually from this decade, and a sound dock for my iPod. There was a new sleek black iPod Nano in the dock. He'd done more than refurnish the place. He might as well have put a mat out that said WELCOME HOME, MAC.

The problem I have with all this religion stuff is that I can't relate to it. I think most people got into 'cos it gave them something to do on a Sunday, but since all the shops are now open it isn't required as much.

W.W. Rostow's Five Stages of Growth (Twentieth-Century Journey) 1. Traditional society 2. Preconditions for take-off 3. Take-off 4. Drive to maturity 5. Age of high mass-consumption

Because the middle classes and the nouveaux riches welcomed gas, water closets and piped-in water, the upper classes drew back. Many a denizen of a sprawling, stony-cold country estate looked on "mod cons" as slightly uncouth, over-eager and—worst of all—middle-class.

The easiest way to get old is to be technologically behind, A.J.

Parafraseando a Ralph E. Gomory en el prólogo de su libro Being Together, Working Apart: Dual-Career Families and the Work-Life Balance, pasamos de una unidad familiar en la que uno traía el pan y el otro cuidaba de la casa a otra en la que dos traen el pan y nadie cuida de la casa.

Technology forced me to divorce a pixie and remarry a pixel.

So I must ask myself, what role can I play in a world where men worship the moving-picture box, where they make and consume potions that eat away their own brains, where they ravage and pillage entire mountains, kill the very earth itself? "Mankind has lost its connection to the land, to the earth, to the beasts and spirits. They gather their food not from the forest and fields, but from plastic bins and ice boxes.

People who might once have bought a newspaper to beguile themselves now look at their Android. Magzines readers look at their Android, too. Amazingly, even manufactures of chewing gum have taken a hit, because nervously chewing while staring out the window has become nervously tapping while staring into a handled screen.

Como si hubiésemos pasado, justamente, de un Antiguo Régimen a uno Nuevo, marcado por la irrupción multiforme de la cuestión de los climas y, cosa aún más extraña, de su vínculo con el gobierno.

Ulica Krokodyli by?a koncesj? naszego miasta na rzecz nowoczesno?ci i zepsucia wielkomiejskiego. Widocznie nie sta? nas by?o na nic innego, jak na papierow? imitacj?, jak na fotomonta? z?o?ony z wycinków zle?a?ych, zesz?orocznych gazet.

To innovate is not to reform.