“America has always been greatest when we dared to be great. We can reach for greatness again. We can follow our dreams to distant stars, living and working in space for peaceful, economic, and scientific gain. Tonight, I am directing NASA to develop a permanently manned space station, and to do it within a decade.” DreamAmericaStarsSpaceEconomicModernGreatnessGainsDecadesPeacefulTonightStationsOur DreamsModern LifeNasa Book:Ronald Reagan Source: Ronald Reagan
“I read "Pride and Prejudice" [by Jane Austen]. I was gobsmacked by it - it's so funny and so modern. Unbelievable. You don't expect funny to come through after 200 years - humor doesn't transcend decades, let alone centuries.” YearsModernCenturyPridePrejudiceDecadesUnbelievableJaneAusten Author:Julie Walters
“The last few decades have been marked by a special cultivation of the romance of the future. We seem to have made up our minds to misunderstand what has happened; and we turn, with a sort of relief, to stating what will happen-which is apparently much easier...The modern mind is forced towards the future by a certain sense of fatigue, not unmixed with terror, with which it regards the past.” MindHas BeensMadeSeemsHappensLastsPastRomanceCertainTurnsLearningHappenedModernSpecialEasierRegardTerrorDecadesReliefFatigueCultivation Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
“During the past few decades, modern technology, with radio, TV, air travel, and satellites, has woven a network of communication which puts each part of the world in to almost instant contact with all the other parts.” WorldPastTechnologyAirModernTvsCommunicationTravelRadioDecadesContactInstantFunny TravelWovenSatellitesAir TravelModern Technology Book:On Dialogue Source: On Dialogue
“I really liked the design aesthetic of the mid-century modern for furniture and the early '60s stuff for the clothes. But then, personally, I'm a huge fan of 1970s muscle cars. Cell phones is just a laziness thing because it's so much easier to have somebody have a cell phone than have to go to a phone booth. So we're sort of, I guess, cherry-picking the best and easiest from several decades.” StuffFansModernCenturyCarDesignHugeEasierClothesPhonesDecadesCellsMusclesAestheticLazinessFurnitureCell PhoneCherriesPhone BoothMuscle Car Author:Adam Reed