Quotes About Modern

Good design doesn't date.

After World War II great strides were made in modern Japanese architecture, not only in advanced technology, allowing earthquake resistant tall buildings, but expressing and infusing characteristics of traditional Japanese architecture in modern buildings.

Obviously anything that accessorizes or enhances the iPhone is always pretty cool.

daily bombardment of idiocy

It seems like everything that we see perceived in the brain before we actually use our own eyes, that everything we see is coming through computers or machines and then is being input in our brain cells. So that really worries me.

Faith in the power of reason is the central pillar of the modern worldview.

we could say that, since this reaction is a matter of degree, your worldview is modern insofar as experiencing other cultures in your own backyard gives you vertigo.

Twenty-first-century American churches have a history and an institutional culture rooted in the modern or premodern periods—the twentieth, nineteenth, or earlier centuries

The general idea of universal moral norms is ancient, widespread, and endorsed by practically every moral authority up until late in the modern period.

A lot of our entertainment throws into detail the stagnation and illness of how we live today-it's sad and it's sick... and it's profitable.

Employing evolutionary logic is not exclusively about discovering our strengths; it is also about understanding our weaknesses and when to augment with modern solutions.

Everybody tells me what a timesaver the Internet is, and how they can't believe they ever got along without it. And I know what they mean, but every time I use it I wind up wondering what people did with their spare time before computers came along to suck it all up.

It is curious, too, that though the modern man in the street is a robot, and incapable of love he is capable of an endless, grinding, nihilistic hate: that is the only strong feeling he is capable of; and therein lies the danger of robot-democracy and all the men in the street, they move in a great grind of hate, slowly but inevitably.

Except in geographical scale, tribal warfare could be and often was total war in every modern sense. Like states and empires, smaller societies can make a desolation and call it peace. TERRITORIAL

The house is a machine for living in.

Design is not incidental to modern economies but integral; not a part of success but the heart of success; and not a sideshow but the centrepiece,

The problem of living in this modern world is the problem of finding room in it. The crowd principle is so universally at work through modern life that the geography of the world had been changed to conform to it. We live in crowds. We get our living in crowds. We are amused in herds.

Mong Kok is where old, traditional Hong Kong and the contemporary, future-leaning city collide like a speeding Lamborghini into a bus full of retirees on their way to a bingo parlor

also have electricity and running water," Garvey said. "You really are a dinosaur. If you aren't on social media, you might as well be dead.

for recent sociologists the dark secret at the heart of modern individualism is its failure as a mode of life...

p.34: Peter Drucker. La innovación es la competencia central de la empresa moderna competitiva. Tiene que establecerse en el corazón de la organización desde el principio, ALIMENTARSE CONTINUAMENTE CON INVERSIONES Y APOYO EJECUTIVO, y tiene que TRANSFORMARSE SISTEMÁTICAMENTE EN VALOR para la firma.

The paradox of our modern world is that we know so much about so many things, about how things work, but so little about who we are as persons, why we are.

The employer class is less indispensable in the modern organization of industries because the laboring men themselves possess sufficient intelligence to organize into co-operative relation and enjoy the entire benefits of their own labor.

My parents are artists in their world, in the world of modern artists, you are supposed to just go into your studio and tune everything out, and your entire relationship with your work is supposed to be a super private one. That was the way to do it and you weren't deeply truly artistic if that wasn't the way you were engaging the press.