Quotes About Planned Obsolescence

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

Brooks Stevens

#2. 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

#3. 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

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

Robert Orben

#5. 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

#6. Planned obsolescence is another word for progress.

James Jeffrey Roche

#7. 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

#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. 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

#10. 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

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

David Harvey

#12. 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

#13. All restraints upon man's natural liberty, not necessary for the simple maintenance of justice, are of the nature of slavery, and differ from each other only in degree.

Lysander Spooner

#14. I was naturally skinny and had braces, so I wasn't a cute model.

Amanda Seyfried

#15. I can't give up my own identity.

Shirley Maclaine

#16. I will always remember and we must all remember that Democrats are our political rivals, not our enemies, and they deserve our respect.

Ken Mehlman

#17. Nobody can be saved from anything, unless they save themselves.

T.H. White

#18. You can survive only if nothing is necessary to you

Paul Auster

#19. I envisioned huge piles of the Elf Hotel flying off the belt, taking down everybody in sight. I had seen pictures of that Elf Hotel - it had sharp candy-cane spires that could easily impale someone. If anyone was ever going to be killed by an Elf Hotel, it would be my parents.

Maureen Johnson

#20. I'm off to find my world, my dreams,
Carve my niche, sew my seams,
Remember, as I sail my streams-
I'll love you all the way.

Brooke Mueller

#21. It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being.

George Washington

#22. I wanted to win, even in practice.

Bjorn Borg

#23. I winked at my own littleness, as people do at their own faults.

Jonathan Swift

#24. What a power I had discovered! I felt certain I could refill those bleacher seats - one day, I was sure, I could "see" everyone who'd been there; I could find that special someone my mother had waved to, at the end.

John Irving

#25. I was born in Somerville, but I don't remember very much about it because we moved from there to Arlington when I was five years old, and it was in Arlington that I spent most of my childhood.

Alan Hovhaness