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
By fashion and built-in obsolescence the economies of machine production, instead of producing leisure and durable wealth, are duly cancelled out by… — Lewis Mumford 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
Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Having a child is sowing the seeds of your own obsolescence: birth is the fuse that leads to that other thing. You… — Michael Redhill Copy Share Image
In the human heart there is a built-in obsolescence factor. It does not matter how powerful and influential you are, how much… — K.P. Yohannan Copy Share Image
Obsolescence is a fate devoutly to be wished, lest science stagnate and die. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
But planned obsolescence is possible only if the rate of technological change is contained. — David Harvey Copy Share Image
I think that to acknowledge a new generation is to acknowledge some degree of obsolescence in yourself, and that is very hard… — Douglas Coupland 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 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
Publishers, naturally, loathe used books and have developed strategies to depress the secondhand market. They bring out new, even more expensive editions… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
Aviation is a dynamic profession. The rate of obsolescence of equipment is high and new aircraft have to be placed in inventory… — Keith B. McCutcheon 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
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
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
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
