Obsolescent Quotes

#1. Immunity to obsolescence is the only obsolescent-immune conceit of the past millennium.

Matt Mullenweg

#2. The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.

Sydney Brenner

#3. I refer of course to the soaring wonder of the age known as the Eiffel Tower. Never in history has a structure been more technologically advanced, materially obsolescent, and gloriously pointless all at the same time.

Bill Bryson

#4. [To] the progressive mind, the very concept of "the enemy" is obsolescent: there are no enemies, just friends whose grievances we haven't yet accommodated.

Mark Steyn

#5. It is as foolish to try to preserve obsolescent industries as to try to preserve obsolescent methods of production: this is often, in fact, merely two ways of describing the same thing.

Henry Hazlitt

#6. The office of the leisure class in social evolution is to retard the movement and to conserve what is obsolescent. This proposition is by no means novel; it has long been one of the commonplaces of popular opinion.

Thorstein Veblen

#7. ROPE, n. An obsolescent appliance for reminding assassins that they too are mortal. It is put about the neck and remains in place one's whole life long.

Ambrose Bierce

#8. The only way you get economic progress, real standards of living moving higher, is to have the savings of the society continuously invested in the cutting-edge technologies. And those technologies which are obsolescent get dropped out.

Alan Greenspan

#9. We're in an era where the demand is for immediate hits that are destined to become obsolescent. Six months later, everyone forgets the artist and the tune. It's become like a con job. Producers, engineers, lawyers and accountants all make money, but the artists don't.

Tony Bennett

#10. We are seeing healing among the stolen generations, and initiatives which are enabling Indigenous people to make their distinctive contribution to our national life.

Malcolm Fraser

#11. I only knew that there was a certain rightness in life
the feeling you got when you did something the way you knew you should.

Laurence Yep

#12. Once a person has declared "failure", they cease to look for the alternate open door. When in reality it was just inches away and wide open.

Lindsey Rietzsch

#13. Health care is a need; it's not a commodity, and it should be distributed according to need. If you're very sick, you should have a lot of it. If you're not sick, you shouldn't have a lot of it.

Marcia Angell

#14. I am completely grateful and pleased for the attention and the recognition I've received for playing the roles that I've played.

Sara Ramirez

#15. Free the snow globes!

Libba Bray

#16. It should surprise no one that I'm out arguing for small government, reduced spending and getting our financial house in order, along with reasonable regulations and no more.

Mike Pompeo