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
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
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
The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence. — Art Linkletter 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
I personally am not so obsessed about immortality for myself. The human body has been designed that way, obsolescence is OK. — Lisa Joy Copy Share Image
Journalism, spooked by rumors of its own obsolescence, has stopped believing in itself. Groans of doom alternate with panicked happy talk. — Maureen Dowd 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
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
“When the old ways disappear, as perhaps they must, it is regrettable that so little is saved from them, so that those… — Philip L. Wagner Copy Share Image
There is a disease to which plays as well as men become liable with advancing years. In men it is called doting,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Parents accept their obsolescence with the best grace they can muster. . . they do all they can to make it easy… — Christopher Lasch 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 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
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
Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Go spit in the face of our inevitable obsolescence and finish your @#$&ng novel. — John Green Copy Share Image
Name anything - high-definition TV, computer obsolescence - and I'm pretty much annoyed by it. — Martin Freeman Copy Share Image
Immunity to obsolescence is the only obsolescent-immune conceit of the past millennium. — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
“fashion succeeds as a business precisely because its obsolescence is inevitable.” — Lindy Woodhead Copy Share Image
by operating on the principle of human and material obsolescence, America eats her history alive. — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
“Look― shoot all you want. With a camera you can barely capture a soul at a time. With planned obsolescence, you can… — Pansy Schneider-Horst Copy Share Image
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… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Systems program building is an entropy-decreasing process, hence inherently metastable. Program maintenance is an entropy-increasing process, and even its most skillful execution… — Anonymous Copy Share Image