Quotes About Modernization

If an Aztec and a Roman were transported to the twenty-first century the Aztec might be the less mystified. He would know why people were smoking.

Every year somebody invents something new — some new devilish machine to make our lives a burden

Niaqornat particularly seemed to offer a heightened version of a story being played out across the world about traditional communities' struggle for survival and their attempts to renegotiate their identity in the face of modern life.

I started my first company when I was in my college dorm as a senior with two of my really good friends. We started a company that became SparkNotes.com. You know CliffsNotes? SparkNotes is a modern-day version of that.

I conceived 'All Is Song' as a modernised, loosely interpreted version of Socrates's life.

Just start thinking about all the different services in your life. Like getting your dry cleaning picked up and dropped off. Nobody has done the Uber of that yet. But that will be Uberfied. You will arrange your dry cleaning via your phone.

The Indian education system, like the Indian bureaucratic system, is Victorian and still in the 19th century. Our schools are still designed to produce clerks for an empire that does not exist anymore.

By Vietnam, the Jeep had given way to the helicopter, and it is hard to imagine a modern army fighting a war without this supremely adaptable workhorse.

I've seen country music go uptown, like we say, and I'm proud I was there when it happened.

Há carne biológica produzida em «quintas» inglesas tão tradicionais que as vacas são transportadas entre pastagens por passadeiras rolantes.

For the first time in human history, most people are doing things that could never interest a child enough to want to tag along. That says less about the child than about us.

As you're turning 65, you can probably appreciate the many modern advances that we have today. Back then, the only cell phones were the ones in the county jail! Times do change! Happy Birthday!

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Into this neutral air Where blind skyscrapers use Their full strength of Collective Man.

Name anything - high-definition TV, computer obsolescence - and I'm pretty much annoyed by it.

No operational commander should have to assign a soldier a task that could be done as well by a computer, a remote sensor, or an unmanned airplane.

I don't need a hard disk in my computer if I can get to the server faster... carrying around these non-connected computers is byzantine by comparison.

Farmers buy a lot of computers.

In the same way you can never go backward to a slower computer, you can never go backward to a lessened state of connectedness.

I'm not computer literate. I e-mail. I know how to get on the Web, but I haven't crossed over into the internet world. I'm old-fashioned, I guess.

The world is a tougher place to live in than it was back then, as we come into the computer age.

Don't use hands to do things that can be efficiently done by the computer.

We want to do for 'Hamlet' what Baz Luhrmann did for 'Romeo and Juliet' in terms of like a really cool kind of re-imagining.

Technique has taken over the whole of civilization. Death, procreation, birth all submit to technical efficiency and systemization.