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  • Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning. -- Marshall McLuhan
  • Obsolescence is a fate devoutly to be wished, lest science stagnate and die. -- Stephen Jay Gould
  • Obsolescence and death, the reign of the archaic, the abandoned, and the corny: Really, if you saw Windows 3.0 on the sidewalk outside the building, would you bend over and pick it up?!? -- Bruce Sterling
  • Obsolescence is the key to innovation. -- Homaro Cantu
  • Obsolescence is the moment of superabundance. -- Marshall McLuhan
  • Obsolescence is the very hallmark of progress. -- Henry Ford II
  • Instead, most colleges are studies in obsolescence. -- Kent McCord
  • Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence. -- Tony Benn
  • Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence. -- Brooks Stevens
  • The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence. -- Art Linkletter
  • Planned obsolescence is not really a new concept. God used it with people. -- Robert Orben
  • Name anything - high-definition TV, computer obsolescence - and I'm pretty much annoyed by it. -- Martin Freeman
  • Journalism, spooked by rumors of its own obsolescence, has stopped believing in itself. Groans of doom alternate with panicked happy talk. -- Maureen Dowd
  • Obsolescence is a factor which says that the new thing I bring you is worth more than the unused value of the old thing. -- Charles Kettering
  • Publishers, naturally, loathe used books and have developed strategies to depress the secondhand market. They bring out new, even more expensive editions of popular textbooks every three to four years, in a classic cycle of planned obsolescence. -- James Surowiecki
  • In an age of multiple and massive innovations, obsolescence becomes the major obsession. -- Marshall McLuhan
  • But planned obsolescence is possible only if the rate of technological change is contained. -- David Harvey
  • Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. -- Aldous Huxley
  • Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence, and anyone who can read without moving his lips should know it by now. -- Brooks Stevens
  • Starving the future to feed the present is a mistake - it leads to obsolescence and stagnation. Sometimes it is hard to make this understood. -- Burton Richter
  • Like Godard, Tati is also remarkably appreciative of the odd beauty that can be revealed in the shapes, patterns and colors created by the technology of planned obsolescence. -- Vincent Canby
  • Perhaps it is this specter that most haunts working men and women: the planned obsolescence of people that is of a piece with the planned obsolescence of the things they make. Or sell. -- Studs Terkel
  • Aviation is a dynamic profession. The rate of obsolescence of equipment is high and new aircraft have to be placed in inventory periodically in order to stay abreast of the requirements of modern war. -- Keith B. McCutcheon
  • Rant said that view of time was set up so folks won't live forever. It's the planned obsolescence we've all agreed to...'Nothing says you have to swallow this,' Rant told me. 'You can always just die. -- Chuck Palahniuk
  • Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you'd collapse. And while you people are overconsuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster. -- Aldous Huxley
  • It has to be acknowledged that in capitalist society, with its herds of hippies, originality has become a sort of fringe benefit, a mere convention, accepted obsolescence, the Beatnik model being turned in for the Hippie model, as though strangely obedient to capitalist laws of marketing. -- Mary McCarthy
  • The sumptuous age of stars and images is reduced to a few artificial tornado effects, pathetic fake buildings, and childish tricks which the crowd pretends to be taken in by to avoid feeling too disappointed. Ghost towns, ghost people. The whole place has the same air of obsolescence about it as Sunset or Hollywood Boulevard. -- Jean Baudrillard
  • Immunity to obsolescence is the only obsolescent-immune conceit of the past millennium. -- Matt Mullenweg
  • People always worry that buying tech products today carries a risk of obsolescence. Most of the time, that fear is overblown. -- Walt Mossberg
  • Having a child is sowing the seeds of your own obsolescence: birth is the fuse that leads to that other thing. You appear, you replace yourself, you die. -- Michael Redhill
  • I think that to acknowledge a new generation is to acknowledge some degree of obsolescence in yourself, and that is very hard to do and often comes with undeniable anger. -- Douglas Coupland
  • We live in a disposable, 'cast-off and throw-away' society that has largely lost any real sense of permanence. Ours is a world of expiration dates, limited shelf life, and planned obsolescence. Nothing is absolute. -- Myles Munroe
  • I have this old '57 Porsche Speedster, and the way the door closes, I'll just sit there and listen to the sound of the latch going, 'cluh-CLICK-click.' That door! I live for that door. Whatever the opposite of planned obsolescence is, that's what I'm into. -- Jerry Seinfeld
  • Styling is designing for obsolescence. -- Alec Guinness
  • Planned obsolescence is another word for progress. -- James Jeffrey Roche
  • God made the human body like a machine with built-in obsolescence. -- Vikas Swarup
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  • Go spit in the face of our inevitable obsolescence and finish your @#$&ng novel. -- John Green
  • by operating on the principle of human and material obsolescence, America eats her history alive. -- Gail Sheehy
  • By fashion and built-in obsolescence the economies of machine production, instead of producing leisure and durable wealth, are duly cancelled out by the mandatory consumption on an even larger scale. -- Lewis Mumford
  • Systems program building is an entropy-decreasing process, hence inherently metastable. Program maintenance is an entropy-increasing process, and even its most skillful execution only delays the subsidence of the system into unfixable obsolescence. -- Fred Brooks
  • Parents accept their obsolescence with the best grace they can muster. . . they do all they can to make it easy for the younger generation to surpass the older, while secretly dreading the rejection that follows. -- Christopher Lasch
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