Obsolescence Quote by Marshall McLuhan Download Open image “Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning.” — Marshall McLuhan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Obsolescence
Obsolescence is a fate devoutly to be wished, lest science stagnate and die. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Planned obsolescence is not really a new concept. God used it with people. — Robert Orben Copy Share Image
In an age of multiple and massive innovations, obsolescence becomes the major obsession. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
But planned obsolescence is possible only if the rate of technological change is contained. — David Harvey Copy Share Image
Senescence is an inevitability. All we can do is try to strike the balance between graceful acceptance and raging against the dying light. — Marty Nemko Copy Share Image
If this is the end, than why did it begin? It'll all eventually fade away — Gerson Monago Copy Share Image
It drives me crazy to throw something out. I find planned obsolescence revolting. — Jonathan Miles Copy Share Image
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… — Brooks Stevens Copy Share Image
Language always preserves a play or figure/ground relation between experience, and perception and its replay in expression. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
I am curious to know what would happen if art were suddenly seen for what it is, namely, exact information of how to rearrange… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
With the arrival of electric technology, man has extended, or set outside himself, a live model of the central nervous system itself. To the… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
“The constant broadcast and reception of ghostly images via radio and television, according to this notion, had weakened the sense, particularly among youth, of… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Every innovation scraps its immediate predecessor and retrieves still older figures – it causes floods of antiques or nostalgic art forms and stimulates the… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The family circle has widened. The worldpool of information fathered by the electric media--movies, Telstar, flight--far surpassesany possible influence mom and dad can now… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Like primitive, we now live in a global village of our own making, a simultaneous happening. It doesn't necessarily mean harmony and peace and… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Professionalism is environmental. Amateurism is anti-environmental. Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development of the total awareness of… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The visual power of the phonetic alphabet is the translate other languages into itself is part of its power to invade right hemisphere (oral)… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
New media may at first appear as mere codes of transmission for older achievement and established patterns of thought. But nobody could make the… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Systems program building is an entropy-decreasing process, hence inherently metastable. Program maintenance is an entropy-increasing process, and even its most skillful execution only delays… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Obsolescence is a factor which says that the new thing I bring you is worth more than the unused value of the old thing. — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
Starving the future to feed the present is a mistake - it leads to obsolescence and stagnation. Sometimes it is hard to make this… — Burton Richter Copy Share Image
by operating on the principle of human and material obsolescence, America eats her history alive. — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image