Obsolescence Quotes

38 quotes by 35 authors

Instead, most colleges are studies in obsolescence. — Kent McCord
The sumptuous age of stars and images is reduced to a few artificial tornado effects, pathetic fake buildings, and childish tricks which the crowd pretends… — Jean Baudrillard
Parents accept their obsolescence with the best grace they can muster. . . they do all they can to make it easy for the younger… — Christopher Lasch
The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence. — Art Linkletter
Planned obsolescence is not really a new concept. God used it with people. — Robert Orben
Publishers, naturally, loathe used books and have developed strategies to depress the secondhand market. They bring out new, even more expensive editions of popular textbooks… — James Surowiecki
Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you'd collapse. And… — Aldous Huxley
Obsolescence is a fate devoutly to be wished, lest science stagnate and die. — Stephen Jay Gould
Some make their worlds without knowing it. Their universes are just sesame seeds and three-day weekends and dial tones and skinned knees and physics and… — Jonathan Safran Foer
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 says you have… — Chuck Palahniuk
In the human heart there is a built-in obsolescence factor. It does not matter how powerful and influential you are, how much education you have,… — K.P. Yohannan
Journalism, spooked by rumors of its own obsolescence, has stopped believing in itself. Groans of doom alternate with panicked happy talk. — Maureen Dowd
People always worry that buying tech products today carries a risk of obsolescence. Most of the time, that fear is overblown. — Walt Mossberg
I think that to acknowledge a new generation is to acknowledge some degree of obsolescence in yourself, and that is very hard to do and… — Douglas Coupland
Immunity to obsolescence is the only obsolescent-immune conceit of the past millennium. — Matt Mullenweg
Having a child is sowing the seeds of your own obsolescence: birth is the fuse that leads to that other thing. You appear, you replace… — Michael Redhill
Prominence is the precursor of obsolescence — Unknown Author
We have our underwear 10, 12 years! Ladies just throw pantyhose out! I'd go through a crate of 'em a week! And the pantyhose rip… — John Pinette

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