Obsolete Quotes

The Word of God is either absolute or obsolete.

— Vance Havner

Obsolete comments are worse than no comments.

— Douglas Crockford

In education, parody is obsolete.

— Alfie Kohn

Most deadly errors arise from obsolete assumptions.

— Frank Herbert

“our longstanding idea of a computer is obsolete.”

— Nicholas Carr

The institution of marriage is obsolete.

— Jane Fonda

“Change makes experience obsolete;”

— Anonymous

Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.

— Theodor Adorno

After sixty, the self-questioning of middle age is obsolete.

— Mason Cooley

The traditional model we all grew up with is obsolete.

— Jim Stengel

In this business it takes time to be really good - and by that time, you're obsolete.

— Cher

The helicopter has never achieved much success and . . .may be classes with the ornithopter as obsolete.

— Oliver Stewart

In this business it takes time to be really good and by that time, youre obsolete

— Cher

NATO is obsolete, because it's not taking care of terror.

— Donald Trump

The notion of a record is an obsolete remnant of the days of the 80-column card.

— Dennis Ritchie

A slow band can be great. A slow 100-metres runner is just obsolete.

— Gylve Nagell

The reason the U.S. lags so badly is that we have obsolete rules that favor big over small, supply over efficiency, and…

— Amory Lovins

I can't believe there will ever be a time when the book is truly obsolete. It is the perfect technology and feeds…

— Katherine Paterson

What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for…

— George Bernard Shaw

Technology is changing so fast that knowledge about specifics can quickly become obsolete. That's why so much of what technicians learn is…

— Robert Reich

It's hard to say who's a greater threat to the world, an ambitious CEO with a big ad budget or a crafty…

— Tom Robbins

The Augusteum warns me not to get attached to any obsolete ideas about who I am, what I represent, whom I belong…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

We want to galvanize people's imaginations. With enough political will and investment, we could make wheelchairs obsolete.

— Miguel Nicolelis

“Had I been educated by my employers as to how hazardous mercury filled spectral lamps were, I would never have taken an…

— Steven Magee

War is a barbaric tool of the war profiteers and Empires who employ them. War pits young people from the working class…

— Cindy Sheehan

Right after 9/11 it looked as if the idea of a huge skyscraper might be considered obsolete. It came back, but I…

— Paul Goldberger

Somewhere out there is a bullet with your company's name on it. Somewhere out there is a competitor, unborn and unknown, that…

— Gary Hamel

Children have no use for psychology. They detest sociology. They still believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity,…

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

Of all the things that your company owns, brands are far and away the most important and the toughest. Founders die. Factories…

— Jim Mullen

I have never met anyone who built a bomb shelter and felt protected by it. I have never met a modern military…

— Peace Pilgrim

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

Creators, makers of the new, can never become obsolete, for in the arts there is no correct answer. The story of discoverers…

— Daniel J. Boorstin

During my span of life science has become a matter of public concern and the l'art pour l'art standpoint of my youth…

— Max Born

Science investigates, religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power, religion gives man wisdom which is control. Science deals mainly with…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Will this massive outcry [about pollution] continue long enough to have effective results? Will federal and state laws be enacted with effective…

— Malcolm Forbes

Here is one optimists reason for believing unity will prevail ... within the next hundred years ... nationhood as we know it…

— Strobe Talbott

The only kind of work which permits an able woman to realize her abilities fully, to achieve identity in society in a…

— Betty Friedan

The majority of the people of the world today are unsane, not insane, unsane meaning having been exposed to methods of evaluation…

— Jacque Fresco

After reading ... accounts ... of minor accidents of light, it is little wonder that the average man would far rather watch…

— Charles Lindbergh

That's why I think death is the most wonderful invention of life. It purges the system of these old models that are…

— Steve Jobs