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  • Obsolete weapons do not deter. -- Margaret Thatcher
  • Adults are obsolete children. -- Dr. Seuss
  • Marriage is obsolete and a trap. -- Catherine Deneuve
  • Either war is obsolete, or men are. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Obsolete comments are worse than no comments. -- Douglas Crockford
  • Immoral (definition): Obsolete expression meaning "politically incorrect". -- Richard Summerbell
  • What's the difference between obsolete and cutting edge? Obsolete works. -- Nicholas Negroponte
  • I shop at a computer store called 'Your Crap's Already Obsolete'. -- Jeff Cesario
  • When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course. -- Peter Drucker
  • Politics And Religion Are Obsolete, The Time Has Come For Science And Spirituality -- Vinoba Bhave
  • Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station. -- Ada Louise Huxtable
  • I feel that education needs an overhaul - courses are obsolete and grades are on the way out. -- Kent McCord
  • One of the goals of the Feminist Elite is to reinforce to women the idea that men are obsolete. -- Tammy Bruce
  • Obsolete misleading theologies bear the same relation to the essence of true religion that scarlet fever, mumps, and measles do to education. -- Luther Burbank
  • I suppose that the scope and implications of such forces have rendered my personal accounting ritual pretty much obsolete. That's how things sometimes go. -- Brian Ferneyhough
  • If American schooling is inadequate now, just imagine how much more obsolete it will be when today's kindergarten students graduate from high school in just 12 years. -- Janet Napolitano
  • I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete. -- Ronald Reagan
  • Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion. -- Stendhal
  • Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them. -- Dr. Seuss
  • I believe all religions are becoming obsolete, clinging to ancient concepts. -- John Templeton
  • Ay, ay, the best terms will grow obsolete: damns have had their day. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
  • The sage belongs to the same obsolete repertory as the virtuous maiden and the enlightened monarch. -- Mason Cooley
  • If we say the Geneva Convention is obsolete, then what do others who have our soldiers say? -- Chuck Schumer
  • I can't say the advertising model is obsolete yet but it doesn't make a lot of sense in the long range. -- Jay Chiat
  • You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
  • We will all, someday, experience death, and become obsolete as a dead leaf falling from a tree, crushed by passersby to ashes underlying the earth. -- Elizabeth Kim
  • When certain branches of the economy become obsolete, as in the case of the steel industry, not only do jobs disappear, which is obviously a terrible social hardship, but certain cultures also disappear. -- Peter L. Berger
  • That's why editors and publishers will never be obsolete: a reader wants someone with taste and authority to point them in the direction of the good stuff, and to keep the awful stuff away from their door. -- Walter Jon Williams
  • A new way of thinking has become the necessary condition for responsible living and acting. If we maintain obsolete values and beliefs, a fragmented consciousness and self-centered spirit, we will continue to hold onto outdated goals and behaviors. -- Dalai Lama
  • In this age, I don't care how tactically or operationally brilliant you are, if you cannot create harmony-even vicious harmony-on the battlefield based on trust across service lines, across coalition and national lines, and across civilian/military lines, you need to go home, because your leadership is obsolete. We have got to have officers who can create harmony across all those lines. -- James Mattis
  • Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic. -- Theodor Adorno
  • The banked oval tracks are obsolete tracks for Indy cars. -- Mario Andretti
  • While facts never become obsolete or stale, commentaries always do. -- Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • For the most ambitious young people, the corporate ladder is obsolete. -- Paul Graham
  • Political satire became obsolete when they awarded Henry Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize. -- Tom Lehrer
  • Love is an obsolete emotion, ranking in usefulness somewhere between earwigs and toe mold. -- Patricia A. McKillip
  • In this business it takes time to be really good - and by that time, you're obsolete. -- Cher
  • I observe to the letter all laws that make sense but combat those that are obsolete or absurd. -- Wilhelm Reich
  • My company survives because I've learned to respect the ideas of people younger than me and recognize when my wisdom is obsolete. -- Robert Kiyosaki
  • We will all, someday, experience death, and become obsolete as a dead leaf falling from a tree, crushed by passersby to ashes underlying the earth. -- Elizabeth Kim
  • Technology is changing so fast that knowledge about specifics can quickly become obsolete. That's why so much of what technicians learn is on the job. -- Robert Reich
  • New technology is useful, but it's inefficient and ugly; it knows it'll be obsolete by lunchtime tomorrow, so it has no incentive to be anything else. -- Tom Holt
  • Technology makes everyone feel old. A laptop is old after two years. Someone always has something newer. Everyone seems to feel obsolete now, even the young. -- Jennifer Egan
  • Aging nations have arteries clogged with obsolete laws, slowing blood flow and preventing oxygen from reaching all parts of the body politic. Physicians call this arteriosclerosis; historians see decline of empire. -- Jim Cooper
  • If your customer base is aging with you, then eventually you are going to become obsolete or irrelevant. You need to be constantly figuring out who are your new customers and what are you doing to stay forever young. -- Jeff Bezos
  • I sold Blockbuster because I saw what was coming: the satellite dish, technology that would make the business obsolete in a few years. Why would people go to a store for a video and then have to return it when they had a dish? -- Wayne Huizenga
  • This rise of the new global mega-rich is happening as established institutions are falling. The fall runs the gamut from the music business and traditional media to the Detroit automakers who find themselves obsolete, outmaneuvered, and out-priced by entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley, Mumbai, Shanghai, and even Siberia. -- Robert Kiyosaki
  • Chemical propulsion is obsolete to go anywhere other than the moon. Three days - that's acceptable. But for Mars, we need propulsion technologies to get us there in, say, 60 days - then spend whatever length of time we want to spend and return when we want to come home. -- Gene Cernan
  • We did some soul-searching. Was the cable industry obsolete? Was it an opportune time to get out? Our conclusion was that if you rebuilt your system with this new fiber-optic coaxial hybrid - which we now call broadband - the glass was half full, not half empty. We could compete. -- Brian Roberts
  • If it works, it's obsolete. -- Marshall McLuhan
  • Anything on paper is obsolete! -- Craig Reucassel
  • In education, parody is obsolete. -- Alfie Kohn
  • Adults are only obsolete children. -- Dr. Seuss
  • Every invention eventually becomes obsolete. -- Mick Farren
  • Selfishness is unnecessary. War is obsolete. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
  • The all-knowing yesterday is obsolete today. -- Jarod Kintz
  • The institution of marriage is obsolete -- Jane Fonda
  • War is out of date, obsolete. -- Dalai Lama
  • poverty is obsolete and hunger is abolished -- W.S. Gilbert
  • Power corrupts, and obsolete power corrupts obsoletely. -- Ted Nelson
  • All religions are based on obsolete terminology. -- Vladimir Nabokov
  • Most deadly errors arise from obsolete assumptions. -- Frank Herbert
  • The fastest thing computers do is go obsolete. -- Andy Rooney
  • The Bible is either absolute, or it's obsolete. -- Leonard Ravenhill
  • The future is but the obsolete in reverse. -- Vladimir Nabokov
  • After sixty, the self-questioning of middle age is obsolete. -- Mason Cooley
  • I've no objection to morality, except that it's obsolete. -- Brian Aldiss
  • The leader's main job is to make themselves obsolete. -- Laozi
  • Art is obsolete now. New technologies are taking over. -- Jeff Koons
  • Glorious as it had been, the city-state was obsolete. -- Robert A. Dahl
  • The Word of God is either absolute or obsolete. -- Vance Havner
  • The traditional model we all grew up with is obsolete. -- Jim Stengel
  • NATO is obsolete, because it's not taking care of terror. -- Donald Trump
  • Innovation basically involves making obsolete that which you did before. -- Jay Abraham
  • In this new world economy, national boundaries are increasingly becoming obsolete. -- Ronald Reagan
  • Any man without a woman is incomplete, and vice-versa she's obsolete. -- Kool Moe Dee
  • To reach the pinnacle of your writings potential; productivity becomes obsolete. -- Marston James
  • The stethoscope for listening to the heart is over. It's obsolete. -- Eric Topol
  • Rebellion is obsolete - change things from the inside working out. -- Mark Mothersbaugh
  • Those who claim France as a nation-state is obsolete are wrong. -- Max Gallo
  • Someone is going to make your product obsolete. Make sure it's you. -- Edwin Land
  • The notion that we can control the flow of information is obsolete. -- Barack Obama
  • The religions are obsolete when the reforms do not proceed from them. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Someone, somewhere, is making a product that will make your product obsolete. -- Georges Doriot
  • I do everything on the computer. TV is obsolete technology for me. -- Edward Snowden
  • Humans cannot find freedom until they let go of old obsolete ideas. -- Robert Kiyosaki
  • The nuclear weapon is obsolete. I want to get rid of them all. -- Chuck Horner
  • A slow band can be great. A slow 100-metres runner is just obsolete. -- Gylve Nagell
  • How many shots does it take before the concept ay choice becomes obsolete? -- Irvine Welsh
  • Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel peace prize. -- Tom Lehrer
  • Comedies of manners swiftly become obsolete when there are no longer any manners. -- Noel Coward
  • The defense of marriage is the defense of freedom. Neither of which is obsolete. -- Nancy Pearcey
  • For myself, I favored the abstract. I collected not just obsolete terms and words, but ideas. -- Jasper Fforde
  • Every company should work hard to obsolete its own product line - before its competitors do. -- Philip Kotler
  • The notion of a record is an obsolete remnant of the days of the 80-column card. -- Dennis Ritchie
  • The helicopter has never achieved much success and . . .may be classes with the ornithopter as obsolete. -- Oliver Stewart
  • A new idea is obsolete in seconds, right? I just said it and now it's obsolete. -- Frank Gehry
  • All the work I've done in my life will be obsolete by the time I'm fifty. -- Steve Jobs
  • If to be old is not to be wise, then it is simply to be obsolete. -- Sam Smith
  • The saying "Getting there is half the fun" became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines. -- Henry Tillman
  • They still believe in God, the family, angels, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other obsolete stuff. -- Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Dear reader, traditional human power structures and their reign of darkness are about to be rendered obsolete. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Dear reader, traditional human power structures and their reign of darkness are about to be rendered obsolete. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
  • If we say the Geneva Convention is obsolete, then what do others who have our soldiers say? -- Chuck Schumer
  • In this business (showbiz) it takes time to be really good and by that time, you're obsolete. -- Cher
  • The mark of greatness is when everything before you is obsolete, and everything after you bears your mark. -- Dave Chappelle
  • The only big companies that succeed will be those that obsolete their own products before somebody else does. -- Bill Gates
  • I've felt that dissatisfaction is the basis of progress. When we become satisfied in business, we become obsolete. -- J. Willard Marriott
  • The art of painting is entering a new golden age. It is in no danger of becoming obsolete. -- Joseph Plaskett
  • Cosmetic surgery and the ideology of self-improvement may have made women's hope for legal recourse to justice obsolete. -- Naomi Wolf
  • When academics claim a topic is obsolete, they mean merely they are tired of flogging it with their cliches. -- Kenny Smith
  • 3D is like a computer. Every six months that computer that was state of the art is now obsolete. -- Carl Mazzocone
  • You can't change anything by fighting or resisting it. You change something by making it obsolete through superior methods. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
  • By the time I joined the 'Washington Post' sports staff in 1979, Red's Runyonesque notion of sports writing was obsolete. -- Jane Leavy
  • I am against making golf courses obsolete, going to the national Open and playing half the holes with a one-iron. -- Arnold Palmer
  • Books will soon be obsolete in the schools... Our school system will be completely changed in the next ten years. -- Thomas A. Edison
  • The purpose of every industrial revolution is to make craft and skills obsolete, and thereby make people interchangeable and cheap. -- Greg Palast
  • Human creativity and innovation is going to make the exploitation of animals look not only inhumane but obsolete and cumbersome. -- Wayne Pacelle
  • I believe that the only important structural obstacles to world prosperity are the obsolete doctrines that clutter the minds of men. -- Paul Krugman
  • The books of men have their day and grow obsolete. God's word is like Himself, the same yesterday, to-day, and forever. -- Robert Payne
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