Quotes About Modernization

In the words of the English philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, "Civilization advances by extending the number of operations which we can perform without thinking about them."19

What I'm trying to do is to at least raise a flag to the blinding light of technology.

New needs need new techniques.

If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic—being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.

technology is important—you can't remain a laggard and hope to be great. But technology by itself is never a primary cause of either greatness or decline.

The basic idea of email has remained essentially unchanged since the first networked message was sent in 1971. And while email is great for one-on-one, formal correspondence, there are far better tools for collaboration.

It turns out that the greatly underestimated downside of technological progress is a fractured world.

I've always had a Marxist understanding of history: democracy is a result of a broad modernization process that happens in every country. Neocons think the use of political power can force the pace of change, but ultimately it depends on societies doing it themselves.

U.S. officials and outside experts agree that China is undertaking a comprehensive modernization of its military. The Chinese military has gotten smaller but smarter.

When the film industry moves to the 21st century, there should be no doubt in anyone's mind that the money used in film-making is clean and devoid of any underworld connections.

What's true for New York is true for most of the country: We are a long way removed from the double-digit interest rates and unemployment rates, and the soaring crime rates, of the early 1980s.

Any religion that does not evolve with time, either gets destroyed or destroys the world.

The Saudi government's denial of basic rights to women is not only wrong, it hurts Saudi Arabia's economic development, modernization and prosperity.

Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.

The real liberators of American women were not the feminist noise-makers, they were the automobile, the supermarket, the shopping center, the dishwasher, the washer-dryer, the freezer.

Sportswriters have changed more than sportswriting.

Spread the gospel that the Marine Corps is a force that has changed. We're not in 1942 anymore.

Everything is changing in squash. Lots of television coverage and the game has become very professional.

I am pleased for Poland as a country, that new motorways are being constructed, new businesses, new stadiums.

A 'farm' today means 100,000 chickens in a space the size of a Motel 6 shower stall.

Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.

Inevitably, we will spend a multiple of the amount we used to drop on a new router once the old one petered out. The New Wifi is the $5 latte to the standard cup of coffee.

Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.

If we are indeed nostalgic for the weight of clock time, it is worth remembering that the standardized time that most of us know has only been around since the mid-nineteenth century. It was invented for the railroads.