Quotes About Modernization

It would be nice to design a real briefcase - you open it up and it's your computer but it also stores your books.

The only change I can really see is that I don't have to shop for pants in stores anymore.

Every age thinks it's the modern age, but this one really is.

In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show.

Great material progress has not been matched by great spiritual progress. Quite the opposite. Indeed, from this point of view perhaps man has never been so poor as since he became so rich. Letters against the war: Letter from the Himalayas, 2008.

En lugar de seguir avanzando por su propio camino y buscar soluciones asiáticas a sus problemas, Asia importa sin discriminación algunas fórmulas de éxito ajenas. Modernización significa occidentalización y, con ello, Asia pierde definitivamente la conciencia de si misma.

Ma mi chiedo se questo non sia il primo passo verso la modernizzazione che inevitabilmente nel giro di pochi anni, cura il tracoma ma porta anche un industriale di Hong Kong a installare quattro o cinque macchine da cucire in un androne de lMustang e a mettere quelle sorridenti donne, che adesso vanno al mercato, o lavano nel fiune, a cucire per otto ore al giorno le sue scarpe o le sue t.shirt

The human condition today is better than it's ever been, and technology is one of the reasons for that.

There was a time when nails were high-tech. There was a time when people had to be told how to use a telephone. Technology is just a tool. People use tools to improve their lives.

People live longer today than they ever have. They live happier lives, have more knowledge, more information. All this is the result of communications technology. How is any of that bad?

I never paid attention when the LP became the cassette and the cassette became the CD and now we're dealing, you know, with MP3s. It's okay.

For all my criticisms of the current system, it doesn't mean that I would like to return to the old one.

To join in the industrial revolution, you needed to open a factory; in the Internet revolution, you need to open a laptop.

The country is moving to a more open society.

Japan has opened a new chapter in its history.

I love doing kitchen renovations where we're opening up the kitchen and creating open-concept main floors. I think that's one renovation that really changes the way people live in their homes.

the march of civilisation has given the modern girl a vocabulary and an ability to use it which her grandmother never had

Bagi generasi muda, perubahan itu terlalu lambat Bagi kaum tradisionalis tua, perubahan itu menghujat

It's like having Siri on steroids.

Despite our fatal addiction to the toys granted us by our own creations.

The Republic of China, founded in 1912, was supposed to modernize the country and regain sovereignty. But by the beginning of the 1930s, China had degenerated into a fragmented country. Chiang Kai-shek, leader of the Nationalists and heir to the Republic of China, was fighting both warlords and Communists. In 1931, the Japanese seized control of Manchuria, where a substantial part of China's industry was located, and breached the Great Wall.

This...is an age of specialization, and in such an age the repertory theater is an anachronism, a ludicrous anachronism.

In an age of multiple and massive innovations, obsolescence becomes the major obsession.

The enterprise that does not innovate ages and declines. And in a period of rapid change such as the present, the decline will be fast.