Quotes About Modernization

Even when I have a vintage play, I draw in elements from current scenarios, so that modern audiences can empathize with the characters.

In 1853, American warships bullied Japan out of centuries of virtual isolation and into the modern world. The threat of force compelled Japan, like India and China before it, to accept trade agreements that were economically ruinous and eroded national sovereignty.

Virtually any appliance is going to be online. Appliances will talk to each other and to the power-generation system. Our appliances will pay attention to our preferences.

As we know, all sports evolve tremendously, and our sport is no different. It's really not the same thing at all as it was in 1972. It's a different type of horse we're using. The style of riding is quite evolved, the way the courses are built, the materials used... it's virtually unrecognizable.

I want to see traditional policing with a modern flavour. I am completely committed to local, visible policing, but we have to modernise. There are such opportunities for people to interact with police through the digital sphere that we have not achieved yet.

My vision for the country is to urbanise rural areas. What is available in the cities must be available in the villages.

the character's failure to move with the times leads to death, suggesting the anachronistic nature of this [hyper/stereotypical] type of masculinity.

Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough! It isn't fit for humans now, There isn't grass to graze a cow. Swarm over, Death!

There are days when I rather detest living in the year 1867. Everything moves so quickly. Change is happening at such a pace. I preferred the way of life thirty years ago when I was a boy.

Pressed to identify useful financial innovations created during the past quarter-century, Paul A. Volcker, former Federal Reserve Chairman and recent chairman of President Obama's Economic Recovery Board, could single out only one: "The ATM.

H. Nelson Jackson said, "I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Never go to today's war with yesterday's weapons.

The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.

We cannot do better than to accept the standards of other times, and to adapt them to our uses.

The display is the computer.

Compulsive modernization is the insatiable desire to change and grow.

The world has changed, but education has not changed with it.

All things evolve, and European football needs to evolve as well.

I wish the sport was much more evolved when I got into it.

The advertising industry needs to keep evolving.

Well the thing is that the New York of 1846 to 1862 was very different from downtown New York now. Really nothing from that period still exists in New York.

The league is getting bigger; the names are getting bigger. The league is getting younger and I really think it has some legs to it.

I don't write letters anymore.

Technology is growing in all possible ways. It is affecting our lifestyle also.