Obsolete Quotes

189 Obsolete quotes by 149 unique authors

When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course. — Peter Drucker
I suppose that the scope and implications of such forces have rendered my personal accounting ritual pretty much obsolete. That's how things sometimes go. — Brian Ferneyhough
Political satire became obsolete when they awarded Henry Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize. — Tom Lehrer
If American schooling is inadequate now, just imagine how much more obsolete it will be when today's kindergarten students graduate from high school in just… — Janet Napolitano
I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of… — Ronald Reagan
If we say the Geneva Convention is obsolete, then what do others who have our soldiers say? — Charles Schumer
Adults are obsolete children. — Dr. Seuss
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion. — Stendhal
Newspapers are technologically obsolete. In the days of instant electronic communications, its crazy to have to print these newspapers at a central plant and deliver… — Ted Turner
New technologies are wreaking havoc on employment figures - from EZpasses ousting toll collectors to Google-controlled self-driving automobiles rendering taxicab drivers obsolete. — Douglas Rushkoff
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. — R. Buckminster Fuller
In order to change an existing paradigm you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model. You create a new model and make… — R. Buckminster Fuller
There are 500 reasons I write for children.... Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about the critics.... They don't read to… — Isaac Bashevis Singer
Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of man, that state is obsolete — Rod Serling
As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its task. Hammers can… — James Gleick
It's hard to say who's a greater threat to the world, an ambitious CEO with a big ad budget or a crafty cleric with an… — Tom Robbins
Medicine, electronic communications, space travel, genetic manipulation . . . these are the miracles about which we now tell our children. These are the miracles… — Dan Brown
People in any organization are always attached to the obsolete - the things that should have worked but did not, the things that once were… — Peter Drucker
The Augusteum warns me not to get attached to any obsolete ideas about who I am, what I represent, whom I belong to, or what… — Elizabeth Gilbert
I think these younger Christians are the vanguard of some major new religious, social, and political arrangements that could make the older form of culture… — Timothy Keller
But now isn’t simply now. Now is also a cold reminder: one whole day later than yesterday, one year later than last year. Every now… — Christopher Isherwood
Sometimes he spent hours together in the great libraries of Paris, those catacombs of departed authors, rummaging among their hoards of dusty and obsolete works… — Washington Irving
-You have no respect for excessive authority or obsolete traditions. You're dangerous and depraved, and you ought to be taken outside and shot! — Joseph Heller
Children have no use for psychology. They detest sociology. They still believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other… — Isaac Bashevis Singer
They were viewed very much like castles, I suppose: as crumbling, obsolete relics, with no real modern function other than as tourist attractions. But when… — Max Brooks

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