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 four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence. — Art Linkletter Copy Share Image
It drives me crazy to throw something out. I find planned obsolescence revolting. — Jonathan Miles 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
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
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 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
Name anything - high-definition TV, computer obsolescence - and I'm pretty much annoyed by it. — Martin Freeman Copy Share Image
Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. — Aldous Huxley 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
