Obsolescence Quotes

38 quotes by 35 authors

Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence. — Tony Benn
Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence...we make good products, we induce people to buy them, and then the next year we deliberately introduce… — Brooks Stevens
In many ways, constancy is an illusion. After all, our ancestors were immigrants, many of them moving on every few years; today we are migrants… — Mary Catherine Bateson
Name anything - high-definition TV, computer obsolescence - and I'm pretty much annoyed by it. — Martin Freeman
Perhaps it is this specter that most haunts working men and women: the planned obsolescence of people that is of a piece with the planned… — Studs Terkel
God made the human body like a machine with built-in obsolescence. — Vikas Swarup
Obsolescence and death, the reign of the archaic, the abandoned, and the corny: Really, if you saw Windows 3.0 on the sidewalk outside the building,… — Bruce Sterling
Obsolescence is the very hallmark of progress. — Henry Ford II
Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence, and anyone who can read without moving his lips should know it by now. — Brooks Stevens
Like Godard, Tati is also remarkably appreciative of the odd beauty that can be revealed in the shapes, patterns and colors created by the technology… — Vincent Canby
Aviation is a dynamic profession. The rate of obsolescence of equipment is high and new aircraft have to be placed in inventory periodically in order… — Keith B. McCutcheon
Starving the future to feed the present is a mistake - it leads to obsolescence and stagnation. Sometimes it is hard to make this understood. — Burton Richter
Obsolescence is the key to innovation. — Homaro Cantu
The shortcomings of economics are not original error but uncorrected obsolescence. The obsolescence has occurred because what is convenient has become sacrosanct. Anyone who attacks… — John Kenneth Galbraith
Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. — Aldous Huxley
Only one rational path is open to us - simultaneous de-development of the [overdeveloped countries] and semi-development of the underdeveloped countries (UDCs), in order to… — John Holdren
It has to be acknowledged that in capitalist society, with its herds of hippies, originality has become a sort of fringe benefit, a mere convention,… — Mary McCarthy
Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning. — Marshall McLuhan
Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence. — Brooks Stevens
Go spit in the face of our inevitable obsolescence and finish your @#$&ng novel. — John Green

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