Quotes About Modernization

Mark Liszewski, executive director of the Antique Automobile Club of America Museum (Hershey, Pennsylvania), remarked: "Instead of Ford versus Chevy, it's Apple versus Android. And instead of customizing their ride, today's teens customize their phones with covers and apps. You express yourself through your phone, whereas lately, cars have become more like appliances, with 100,000-mile warranties.

the world now consumes in one year nearly as much steel as it did during the first post-World War II decade, and (even more incredibly) more cement than it consumed during the first half of the twentieth century.

May be it's hard to tell from us what people were like in the old days, but no one looks behind himself anymore. Everyone's rushing headlong. They're out of breath, stumbling on every step, but they keep on running...No time to look back, there's no time to look underfoot...as though someone's chasing them.

He who does not move with the times is a dead man

A new beauty has been added to the splendor of the world - the beauty of speed.

Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.

The person who insists on using yesterday's methods in today's world won't be in business tomorrow

Remember that the six most expensive words in business are: 'We've always done it that way'

As a result of the digital age and the decline of first-class mail, there is no question that the Postal Service must change and develop a new business model.

Online Faxing - A tool that does one thing and it does it well"-ifaxapp

Once we used to have to crank up our cars, now you can pop it on from inside your house. Everything has changed except how we get freedom.

In the United States three new methods of transportation made their appearance at almost the same time - the steamboat, the canal boat, and the rail car

the car, by bisecting the human outline, diminishes it, producing a race of half-people in a motion not of their own making

installed central air conditioning, bought big refrigerator/

How the land became plastic, he thought, remembering the fairy tale "How the Sea Became Salt." Someday, he thought, it'll be mandatory that we all sell the McDonald's hamburger as well as buy it; we'll sell it back and forth to each other forever from our living rooms. That way we won't even have to go outside.

les Musulmans éduqués comme nous-mêmes commencions à penser que l'islam était le véritable obstacle qui avait empêché les masses algériennes de passer au XXe siècle. Lorsque

L'islam n'est pas vraiment une religion progressiste, et, si nous voulions tirer l'Algérie de ce bourbier, notre première tâche était de détruire le mode de vie arriéré islamique.

Your knowledge becomes out of date as new techniques, languages, and environments are developed

Siempre quiso ver en la excitada modernidad de aquellos años en Madrid la explosión de un montón de reprimidos llegados de provincias que en la capital podían arrancase la máscara sin que sus padres, ni sus parientes, ni sus vecinos del pueblo pudieran verlos. El anonimato de la gran ciudad es lo único que nos permitió ser libres.

From the way of Go the beauty of Japan and the Orient had fled. Everything had become science and regulation.

There's nothing wrong with the classic ways of adapting stuff.

As our economy advances, our government and our laws need to modernize, too.

I looked around, and I saw cottages everywhere. I thought it was time they lived in apartments.

For the last thirty years, however, these pictures of ancient times are beginning to fade and disappear. Modern industry, working for the masses, goes on destroying the creations of ancient art, the works of which were once as personal to the consumer as to the artisan. Nowadays we have products, we no longer have works.