Top 100 Quotes About Obsolete
#1. 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
#3. I still blog, but I do think blogging will become obsolete, as there are more ways of interacting on the Web with low barriers to entry for people to engage and participate.
Biz Stone
#4. 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
#5. Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Tom Lehrer
#8. To use an obsolete Latin word, I might say, Ex Oriente lux; ex Occidente FRUX. From the East light; from the West fruit.
Henry David Thoreau
#9. The leader's main job is to make themselves obsolete.
Laozi
#10. If men are obsolete, then women will soon be extinct
unless we rush down that ominous Brave New World path where women clone themselves by parthenogenesis, as famously do Komodo dragons, hammerhead sharks, and pit vipers.
Camille Paglia
#12. The Augusteum warns me not to get attached to any obsolete ideas about who I am, what I represent, whom I belong to, or what function I may once have intended to serve.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#13. The notion of a record is an obsolete remnant of the days of the 80-column card.
Dennis Ritchie
#15. Those who claim France as a nation-state is obsolete are wrong.
Max Gallo
#16. In spite of advances in technology and changes in the economy, state government still operates on an obsolete 1970s model. We have a typewriter government in an Internet age.
Matt Blunt
#17. Politics is an obsolete way of doing things. Although it was good a hundred years ago, it has no place in today's high tech society.
Jacque Fresco
#18. Relatively speaking, science can provide reliable standards to verify truth in a physical, material sense, but values are not its strength. What one generation takes to be true is debunked and made obsolete by new discoveries.
Ilchi Lee
#19. Only people can be made to increase in value. Computers and other equipment depreciate and eventually become obsolete.
Brian Tracy
#20. The more the development of late capitalism renders obsolete or at least suspect the real possibilities of self, self-fulfillment and actualization, the more they are emphasized as if they could spring to life through an act of will alone.
Richard Rosen
#21. The defense of marriage is the defense of freedom. Neither of which is obsolete.
Nancy Pearcey
#22. Through your actions here today - you have made humankind obsolete.
Daniel H. Wilson
#23. The art of painting is entering a new golden age. It is in no danger of becoming obsolete.
Joseph Plaskett
#24. I can't believe there will ever be a time when the book is truly obsolete. It is the perfect technology and feeds the soul.
Katherine Paterson
#25. Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
Stendhal
#26. I am against electronic books. they make real books obsolete, denying the poor and economically challenged freedom.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#27. How many shots does it take before the concept ay choice becomes obsolete?
Irvine Welsh
#28. Every invention eventually becomes obsolete.
Mick Farren
#29. If ever an obsolete term urgently needed redefining, the humble 'glove compartment' would surely win any contest hands down.
Alex Morritt
#30. Great men are necessary for our life, in order that the movement of world history can free itself sporadically, by fits and starts, from obsolete ways of living and inconsequential talk.
Jacob Burckhardt
#31. Thrift is not some obsolete Victorian notion ... It will be the difference between those who prosper and achieve respect and those who become a burden to their children and society.
Peter George Peterson
#32. Art is obsolete now. New technologies are taking over.
Jeff Koons
#33. It is now highly feasible to take care of everybody on Earth at a higher standard of living than any have ever known. It no longer has to be you or me. Selfishness is unnecessary. War is obsolete. It is a mater of converting the high technology from weaponry to livingry.
R. Buckminster Fuller
#34. The Great Wall of China, the Berlin Wall, the walls surrounding a medieval castle: obsolete walls evoke nostalgia. Make your walls obsolete.
Khang Kijarro Nguyen
#35. People never touched one another. The custom had become obsolete, owing to the Machine.
E. M. Forster
#36. Rules, laws and codes become obsolete among the self-governed.
T.F. Hodge
#37. In three years, every product my company makes will be obsolete. The only question is whether we will make them obsolete or somebody else will.
Bill Gates
#38. 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
#39. I believe all religions are becoming obsolete, clinging to ancient concepts.
John Templeton
#40. In this business (showbiz) it takes time to be really good and by that time, you're obsolete.
Cher
#41. Cosmetic surgery and the ideology of self-improvement may have made women's hope for legal recourse to justice obsolete.
Naomi Wolf
#42. People in any organization are always attached to the obsolete - the things that should have worked but did not, the things that once were productive and no longer are.
Peter F. Drucker
#43. His mind wandered, seeking other examples. People - particularly older ones - still spoke of putting film into a camera, or gas into a car. Even the phrase "cutting a tape" was still sometimes heard in recording studios - though that embraced two generations of obsolete technologies.
Arthur C. Clarke
#44. Well-established theories collapse under the weight of new facts and observations which cannot be explained, and then accumulate to the point where the once useful theory is clearly obsolete.
Al Gore
#47. Management must take the lead in making obsolete its own products and services rather than waiting for a competitor to do so.
Peter Drucker
#48. University lectures are an obsolete practice inherited from the Middle Ages when books were scarce. Students should read, not listen. To swallow instruction from a lectern is like sipping through a straw. Lectures pander to the vanity of the lecturer and stimulate conflict between academics.
Virginia Woolf
#49. What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.
George Bernard Shaw
#50. Either man is obsolete or war is. War is the ultimate tool of politics. Political leaders look out only for their own side. Politicians are always realistically maneuvering for the next election. They are obsolete as fundamental problem-solvers.
R. Buckminster Fuller
#51. The hydrogen economy will make possible a vast redistribution of power, with far-reaching consequences for society. Today's centralized, top-down flow of energy, controlled by global oil companies and utilities, could become obsolete.
Jeremy Rifkin
#52. I distrust every idea that doesn't seem obsolete and grotesque to my contemporaries.
Nicolas Gomez Davila
#53. Power corrupts, and obsolete power corrupts obsoletely.
Ted Nelson
#54. Unfortunately, the only recognized relics of yesterday's farmers are obsolete curiosities when the greatest relic, their philosophy of living, is seldom considered.
Eric Sloane
#55. Take away fear of competition, of failure, of loss of markets, of humiliation, of becoming obsolete, and the culture would r stop; take away the fear the urnon man has of the boss and the union would blow away;
Anonymous
#56. The mark of greatness is when everything before you is obsolete, and everything after you bears your mark.
Dave Chappelle
#57. In this new world economy, national boundaries are increasingly becoming obsolete.
Ronald Reagan
#58. 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
#59. We live in a cult of the upgrade right now. There's always something around the corner that will make whatever you think is cool right now feel obsolete.
Colin Trevorrow
#60. New technologies are wreaking havoc on employment figures - from EZpasses ousting toll collectors to Google-controlled self-driving automobiles rendering taxicab drivers obsolete.
Douglas Rushkoff
#61. The stethoscope for listening to the heart is over. It's obsolete.
Eric Topol
#62. What's the difference between obsolete and cutting edge? Obsolete works.
Nicholas Negroponte
#63. In my judgement, this new paradigm renders obsolete Geneva's strict limitations on questioning of enemy prisoners and renders quaint some of its provisions.
Alberto Gonzales
#64. Individual is obsolete. That's why life is so comfortable for us all. We don't matter, so we're safe. No one person can have any real effect anymore.
Iain M. Banks
#65. It's fascinating, you know, how an obsolete madness is sometimes adopted and stylized in an attempt to ghoulishly preserve it. These are the days of second-hand fantasies and out-of-date distractions.
Thomas Ligotti
#66. The young people, they don't knock on the door politely and say "May I come in?" They barge in, they take your seat, and you're obsolete unless you recreate and somehow find grace somewhere else. Another profession may not be like that.
Joan Chen
#67. The notion that we can control the flow of information is obsolete.
Barack Obama
#69. 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
#70. You people don't know what the truth is! It's there, just under their bullshit, but you never look! That's what I hate most about this fucking city
LIES ARE NEWS AND TRUTH IS OBSOLETE!
Warren Ellis
#71. The popularity of Groupon has almost rendered the group-buying element of it obsolete, because we're able to deliver so many customers that the merchants are very happy with even the smallest number that we can provide.
Andrew Mason
#72. Windows 7 is on its way to being an obsolete product. Keeping it on your computer long term will leave you with an obsolete computer. Windows 10 has numerous problems, but lack of support soon is not one of them.
Steven Magee
#73. If you're as detached as that, why does the obsolete institution of marriage survive with you?
Oh, it still has its uses. One couldn't be divorced without it.
Edith Wharton
#74. Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress.
Benjamin Disraeli
#75. Saying women aren't funny is now like saying Asians can't drive or saying black people have bad credit. It's just really, like, so obsolete.
Whitney Cummings
#76. The sage belongs to the same obsolete repertory as the virtuous maiden and the enlightened monarch.
Mason Cooley
#77. In less than twenty-five years ... the motor-car will be obsolete, because the aeroplane will run along the ground as well as fly over it.
Philip Gibbs
#78. The question of purpose and meaning becomes obsolete when you think beyond human life.
Vatsal Surti
#79. It would be a mistake to assume that the present day educational system is unchanging. On the contrary, it is undergoing rapid change. But much of this change is no more than an attempt to refine the existent machinery, making it ever more efficient in pursuit of obsolete goals.
Alvin Toffler
#80. 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
#81. It's foolish to talk of an "Asian century" or an "emerging market century" because events move at a pace that renders this degree of durability obsolete.
Ian Bremmer
#82. Every woman, hell, every man should be a feminist, that is the only way to render this word obsolete.
Aysha Taryam
#83. The human mind moves always forward, alters its viewpoint and enlarges its thought substance, and the effect of these changes is to render past systems of thinking obsolete or, when they are preserved, to extend, to modify and subtly or visibly to alter their value.
Sri Aurobindo
#84. 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.
Eugene Cernan
#85. After sixty, the self-questioning of middle age is obsolete.
Mason Cooley
#86. I am a collection of the obsolete, a relic of the damned, of the lost and strayed. I am the waylaid pieces of history which sank out of sight in all of our pasts. Such an accumulation of riffraff has never before been imagined.
Frank Herbert
#87. I've trained my people in mentoring entrepreneurs and made myself obsolete.
Ram Shriram
#88. Every company should work hard to obsolete its own product line - before its competitors do.
Philip Kotler
#89. For myself, I favored the abstract. I collected not just obsolete terms and words, but ideas.
Jasper Fforde
#90. 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
#91. A November, 2012 article in India Times claims software developers are obsolete by age 40. That's a tough age to start a new career.
Robert Oshana
#92. Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.
Dr. Seuss
#93. When you're placed in a world where survival is the main focus, a lot of that other stuff, like wrongdoings in the past, become obsolete. You have to focus on the here and now. Yes, there is tension between the two of them.
Alycia Debnam Carey
#94. From my own point of view, the fact of the Third Reich alone makes obsolete forever any question of Christian superiority, except in technological terms. White
James Baldwin
#95. Most of the problems of the world stem from linguistic mistakes and simple misunderstandings. Don't ever take words at face value. When you step into the zone of love, language as we know it becomes obsolete. That which cannot be put into words can only be grasped through silence.
Elif Shafak
#96. I've felt that dissatisfaction is the basis of progress. When we become satisfied in business, we become obsolete.
J. Willard Marriott
#97. The Word of God is either absolute or obsolete.
Vance Havner
#98. The institution of marriage is obsolete
Jane Fonda
#99. It's essential that we learn how to defend the Bible and the Christian faith for our sake and our children's. If we don't, the empty and obsolete churches in England will foreshadow the future in America.
Ken Ham
#100. In the works of Shakespeare, the most wonderful genius the world has ever known, there is the enormous number of 15,000 different words, but almost 10,000 of them are obsolete or meaningless today.
Joseph Devlin
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