Quotes About Modernization

I would love to bring it up-to-date and get some more people interested in snooker.

We don't need to update the paper through the night, so we don't need so many people working anti-social hours producing a newspaper for real-time news. That's the equivalent of the steam age.

You can re-interpret the past. Tradition can always be updated. But it is wrong to say 'throw it out.'

There are lots of things where NAFTA can be updated and upgraded.

If I feel like something needs to be updated, I'll break my neck to outdo the original.

I'm not a moderniser. I accept that things like escalators do need an upgrade every now and then, but I think the fundamental principles of Conservatism have a long thread running through them that does not need to be modernised.

We live in a cult of the upgrade right now. There's always something around the corner that will make whatever you think is cool right now feel obsolete.

The infrastructure at Union Station is antiquated. High-speed is going to come in eventually. We need to upgrade that system. Every day the Metro comes in, the Amtrak comes in, and they idle their engines for hours, spewing poisonous toxins - all that crap - into the air.

The need to upgrade our physical infrastructure is something most Americans can agree on.

In the future, things will truncate! No, in the age of Twitter, we can't be upset when words become shorter.

The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.

The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.

As society has shifted from an agrarian to an urban structure, the joy and necessity of diligent, hard work have been neglected.

By modernizing the process of food preservation, Birdseye nationalized and then internationalized food distribution... facilitated urban living and helped to take people away from the farms... and greatly contributed to the development of industrial-scale agriculture.

In the urban areas, we have focused on infrastructure roads, telecommunications, power.

We've evolved from sitting back on our tripods and shooting wildlife films like they have been shot historically, which doesn't work for us.

It is time to do away with work place policies that belong in a Mad Men episode.

The paperless office is possible, but not by imitating paper. Note that the horseless carriage did not work by imitating horses.

130 of Automattic's 150 employees work outside of our San Francisco headquarters. Why are so many companies stuck in this factory model of working?

If you take a frozen box and stick it in the microwave, you become connected to the factory. We've forgotten who we are.

In our ephemeral information age, people think we've left behind the stone, bronze, and iron ages. But they're all still going on - we use tonnes of this stuff every day. You just have to look.

I think, in today's football, you have to have a certain degree of technology. If not, you're living in the stone ages.

We didn't get agitated over the closure of blacksmiths when people stopped riding horses and started driving cars.

In the old days, I'd have to go as a company, buy computer resources, buy servers, buy storage, and lash it all together. It took a long time to stand up. Now, if I need, I can go to Amazon or Rackspace and buy some computer power nearly instantaneously.