Obsolescence quotes

Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence.
-- Brooks Stevens

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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

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But planned obsolescence is possible only if the rate of technological change is contained.
-- David Harvey

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Obsolescence is the very hallmark of progress.
-- Henry Ford II

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Instead, most colleges are studies in obsolescence.
-- Kent McCord

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God made the human body like a machine with built-in obsolescence.
-- Vikas Swarup

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Planned obsolescence is another word for progress.
-- James Jeffrey Roche

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But a rise in the wages of labour would not equally affect commodities produced with machinery quickly consumed, and commodities produced with machinery slowly consumed.
My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, rant, and rave, and at the sound of the bell, simmer down and go about business as usual.
Open a book this minute and start reading. Donâ€™t move until youâ€™ve reached page fifty. Until youâ€™ve buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself with words. Wash yourself away. Dissolve.
I think I've always had the shots. But in the past, I've suffered too many mental lapses. Now, I'm starting to get away from that and my mental discipline and commitment to the game are much better. I think I'm really taking a good look at the big picture. That's the difference between being around for the final or watching the final from my sofa at home.
When you are present, when your attention is fully in the Now, Presence will flow into and transform what you do. There will be a quality and power in it. You are present when what you are doing is not primarily a means to an end (money, prestige, winning) but fulfilling in itself, when there is joy and aliveness in what you do.
Iâ€™m definitely excited to have a fresh start. Talking to the coach [Bob Hartley], talking to management, they want me to have success, and that definitely makes your life easier. It keeps your mind free to just go out there and play as good as you can, instead of worrying about giving up bad goals and having to prove yourself every night â€“ not just to the public, but to the coaching staff and everybody else. Thatâ€™s definitely a nicer way to feel comfortable, if you know they have your back.
After the Second World War, I returned to California to study composition with Darius Milhaud, who wrote wonderful works like 'Le Boeuf sur le Toit' and 'La Cretion du Monde.' I especially enjoy his work for two pianos, 'Scaramouche.
If information is the currency of democracy, then libraries are its banks.
In elementary and high school, I never considered acting as a profession.
I love Marcel Proust, but I leave him to his nostalgia. I don't approach art the way most people do. I don't get into Proust by imagining that I am Charlus or whoever. It's the same thing in painting - I try to look at it objectively. There's no pathos in that. It's like Bach's "Goldberg Variations." They have to be approached with a scalpel.