Quotes About Modern

When the new wave of terrorism came on the modern world, which is the late 1960s, early 1970s, I think we spent about a decade, the United States and our allies, trying to figure out how to deal with it.

In a way Girls Aloud were the first wave of modern celebrity. When we started out there were no camera phones clicking away.

The detection of gravitational waves is truly a triumph of modern large-scale experimental physics.

Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.

Migration is as natural as breathing, as eating, as sleeping. It is part of life, part of nature. So we have to find a way of establishing a proper kind of scenario for modern migration to exist. And when I say 'we,' I mean the world. We need to find ways of making that migration not forced.

The Internet - central to modern life - provides new ways for our enemies to plan and act against us.

Adolescence is a modern construct and very American in so many ways.

The more ways we have to connect, the more many of us seem desperate to unplug.

In today's world, everyone's so clued into their iPhones, and communication is going by the wayside as far as one-on-one is concerned. It's very seldom that I walk into a room and parents make their children say hello and have a social grace with one another.

New applications will have to deal with big data. We have to analyze it on the fly, so we have to have a system that is transactional and analytical at the same time. We cannot have a multi-stage system. This is too slow for modern applications.

Very often, people talk about mothers, and they think that mother has to lose her sexuality. Mother has to be plain. Mothers cannot be exciting. Mother should not be up on what's going on; she shouldn't know the jargon of the day. And I just find that so old-fashioned!

I am probably one of the last people on the planet without a cell phone.

I'm obsessed with plastic. I like the syntheticness.

The most futuristic aspect of the House of the Future was that it was made almost entirely of plastic.

I don't think you can be a credible, modern candidate for president without making the environment a major part of your platform.

All the political movements of our country that have hitherto played any important role in our modern history had been lacking in the ideal at the achievement of which they aimed. Revolutionary movement is no exception.

If you love classical playwrights, seek out companies or places that are doing that. If you love modern playwrights, try to find groups who are writing new plays or working on new plays. If you love television, watch as much theater and film as you can.

The world today doesn't please me.

I'm really not into technology at all. My brother has to plug the Xbox in for me.

The gesture of taking the watch from the pocket and looking at the time is very elegant for a man, but if I was going to create a pocket watch, I wanted it to be very modern. I didn't want to do old-fashioned.

I counted how many seconds it takes to get my smartphone out of my pocket, open it up, find the camera app, wait for it to load, and then take a photo. Six to 12 seconds.

The whole 'Electronica' project is about the ambiguous relationship we have with technology: on the one side, we have the world in our pocket; on the other, we are spied on constantly.

JanSport thinks about everything that a person in the 21st century would need, and then creates a pocket for it.

It's amazing what these computers we carry around in our pockets can do. And if anyone wants to, they can know what we're doing.