Quotes About Modernization

The Conservative Party mustn't sound like the old man on the park bench who says things were better in 1985, or 1955, or 1855.

What is very little understood about the electronic age is that it angelizes man, disembodies him. Turns him into software.

For God's sake, let us be men not monkeys minding machines or sitting with our tails curled while the machine amuses us, the radio or film or gramophone. Monkeys with a bland grin on our faces.

No one knows where we are going, the aim of life has been forgotten, the end has been left behind. Man has set out at tremendous speed- to go nowhere.

The very shaping of history now outpaces the ability of men to orient themselves in accordance with cherished values.

The man of the millennium is much more liberated than the man of the '90s.

The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.

Im a machine man, and I head a machine.

Technology takes processes of yesterday and makes it simpler, faster, accessible, and more cost efficient.

New and improved

Battles, in these ages, are transacted by mechanism; with the slightest possible development of human individuality or spontaneity; men now even die, and kill one another, in an artificial manner.

For me, my phone is a one-stop shop; I do everything on my phone - email, browsing, listening to music, reading, navigation and using smart apps. Maps, I use that a lot. I think that's the best app ever.

Innovation is a necessity.

My life's goal is to get rid of computers and invent everything that removes its necessity.

The precondition to negotiating NAFTA is that we can't go back to the past.

If Apple, Amazon, Netflix, or somebody else can ever blast away all the ridiculous vestiges of decades-old TV content and technology we live with today, I'll buy whatever they come up with. Until then, I'm settling for a Caavo.

I don't know when network executives will get out of the Dark Ages.

I want to take TSA to the next level.

We understand that conglomerates have no future.

The league has changed in so many ways. There are no point guards anymore, there are no centers anymore; it's all positionless basketball.

They're all tossers, aren't they, men like Martin. They think women are like fucking laptops or whatever, like, my old one's knackered and anyway, you can get ones that are slimmer and do more stuff now.

Deng Xiaoping went on with his efforts to normalize life in China and implement the Four Modernizations Program. Entrance examinations for universities and colleges were reinstituted.

The hard work of the future will be pushing buttons

the slow cancellation of the future and the fast homogenization of the past]