Today the West exists only to bear witness to its own obsolescence. — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
Planned obsolescence is not really a new concept. God used it with people. — Robert Orben Copy Share Image
Obsolescence is a factor which says that the new thing I bring you is worth more than the unused value of the… — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
Obsolescence is a fate devoutly to be wished, lest science stagnate and die. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Starving the future to feed the present is a mistake - it leads to obsolescence and stagnation. Sometimes it is hard to… — Burton Richter Copy Share Image
People always worry that buying tech products today carries a risk of obsolescence. Most of the time, that fear is overblown. — Walt Mossberg Copy Share Image
In an age of multiple and massive innovations, obsolescence becomes the major obsession. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence, and anyone who can read without moving his lips should know it by now. — Brooks Stevens Copy Share Image
It drives me crazy to throw something out. I find planned obsolescence revolting. — Jonathan Miles Copy Share Image
“When a new object emerges that satisfies the same purpose as an older one, the older one falls into obsolescence.” — Koji Suzuki Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is this specter that most haunts working men and women: the planned obsolescence of people that is of a piece… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
We live in a disposable, 'cast-off and throw-away' society that has largely lost any real sense of permanence. Ours is a world… — Myles Munroe Copy Share Image
Like Godard, Tati is also remarkably appreciative of the odd beauty that can be revealed in the shapes, patterns and colors created… — Vincent Canby Copy Share Image
I have this old '57 Porsche Speedster, and the way the door closes, I'll just sit there and listen to the sound… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
We live in a world where our social system is old, our language is old, the way we acquire goods and services… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
Obsolescence and death, the reign of the archaic, the abandoned, and the corny: Really, if you saw Windows 3.0 on the sidewalk… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence...we make good products, we induce people to buy them, and then the next year… — Brooks Stevens Copy Share Image
It has to be acknowledged that in capitalist society, with its herds of hippies, originality has become a sort of fringe benefit,… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
In many ways, constancy is an illusion. After all, our ancestors were immigrants, many of them moving on every few years; today… — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
The shortcomings of economics are not original error but uncorrected obsolescence. The obsolescence has occurred because what is convenient has become sacrosanct.… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The more subtle thing is more speculative. The world is well past its long-term carrying capacity for human beings living a European,… — Denis Hayes Copy Share Image
Some make their worlds without knowing it. Their universes are just sesame seeds and three-day weekends and dial tones and skinned knees… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, once an economy is geared to expansion, the means rapidly turn into an end and "the going becomes the goal." Even… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Only one rational path is open to us - simultaneous de-development of the [overdeveloped countries] and semi-development of the underdeveloped countries (UDCs),… — John Holdren Copy Share Image
The effect of the post-Enlightenment project for human society is that all human activity is absorbed into labor. It becomes an unending… — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
The sumptuous age of stars and images is reduced to a few artificial tornado effects, pathetic fake buildings, and childish tricks which… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
“Cheap objects resist involvement. We tend to invest less in their purchase, care, and maintenance, and that's part of what makes them… — Ellen Ruppel Shell Copy Share Image
Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
But planned obsolescence is possible only if the rate of technological change is contained. — David Harvey Copy Share Image
The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence. — Art Linkletter Copy Share Image
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