Quotes About Obsolescence

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. Instead, most colleges are studies in obsolescence.

Kent McCord

#6. God made the human body like a machine with built-in obsolescence.

Vikas Swarup

#7. He put an arm around me and helped me across the lawn into the passenger's seat. The inside was red and white as a strawberry sundae, with black analog gauges. It was inefficient and sprawling; it screamed of hubris and excess and obsolescence; it was America on wheels.

Mishell Baker

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. Planned obsolescence is another word for progress.

James Jeffrey Roche

#11. By operating on the principle of human and material obsolescence, America eats her history alive.

Gail Sheehy

#12. When the old ways disappear, as perhaps they must, it is regrettable that so little is saved from them, so that those who practice them suffer the penalty of obsolescence, as the poor folk of a new and more efficient world.

Philip L. Wagner

#13. Obsolescence is the moment of superabundance.

Marshall McLuhan

#14. 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

#15. Planned obsolescence is not really a new concept. God used it with people.

Robert Orben

#16. Name anything - high-definition TV, computer obsolescence - and I'm pretty much annoyed by it.

Martin Freeman

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. In an age of multiple and massive innovations, obsolescence becomes the major obsession.

Marshall McLuhan

#21. Styling is designing for obsolescence.

Alec Guinness

#22. Obsolescence is the very hallmark of progress.

Henry Ford II

#23. 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.

Frederick P. Brooks Jr.

#24. When a new object emerges that satisfies the same purpose as an older one, the older one falls into obsolescence.

Koji Suzuki

#25. Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning.

Marshall McLuhan

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

Matt Mullenweg

#27. 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

#28. In the human heart there is a built-in obsolescence factor. It does not matter how powerful and influential you are, how much education you have, how selfcontrolled or holy you consider yourself - your heart, if you do not guard it, will break down.

K.P. Yohannan

#29. Obsolescence is a fate devoutly to be wished, lest science stagnate and die.

Stephen Jay Gould

#30. Knowledge cannot be taken away from anyone except by obsolescence.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#31. The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Art Linkletter

#32. Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence.

Brooks Stevens

#33. People always worry that buying tech products today carries a risk of obsolescence. Most of the time, that fear is overblown.

Walt Mossberg

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. 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

#37. But planned obsolescence is possible only if the rate of technological change is contained.

David Harvey

#38. Many profit-driven corporate strategies are based on fashion, planned obsolescence, unneeded upgrades, and masterful emotional manipulation --marketing--causing people to continuously replace goods which are still in good working order.

Jacob Lund Fisker

#39. Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence.

Tony Benn

#40. Journalism, spooked by rumors of its own obsolescence, has stopped believing in itself. Groans of doom alternate with panicked happy talk.

Maureen Dowd

#41. 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

#42. Because if there's one thing worse than an IT manager who's feeling the chill wind of obsolescence blowing down his neck and consequently trying to contribute code to the repository like an actual working developer, it's an IT manager who's getting creative.

Charles Stross

#43. Immerse yourself in the mesmerising patchwork of flatland invaded by water, desolate roads of industrial obsolescence, and a dark history

Ben Handicott