Obsolescence Quotes

• Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Fashion, Ends

  Marshall McLuhan (2010). "El medio y la luz: Reflexiones sobre religión y medios de comunicación", p.139, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Toda nuestra economía se basa en la obsolescencia planificada.

  Brooks Stevens

  Environmental, Sustainability, Economy

  Citado en Vance Packard The Waste Makers (1960), cap.6. Se cree que este es el primer uso de la frase "obsolescencia planificada".

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• Planned obsolescence is not really a new concept. God used it with people.

  Robert Orben

  Funny Life, People, Used

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• Las cuatro etapas del hombre son la infancia, la niñez, la adolescencia y la obsolescencia.

  Art Linkletter

  Life, Men, Infancy Is

  A Child's Garden of Misinformation (1965) cap. 8

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• Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence, and anyone who can read without moving his lips should know it by now.

  Brooks Stevens

  Moving On, Moved On, Lips

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• En cambio, la mayoría de las universidades son estudios de obsolescencia.

  Kent McCord

  College, Study

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• Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence.

  Tony Benn

  Suffering, Today, Galloping

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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

  Mistake, Sometimes, Starving

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• In an age of multiple and massive innovations, obsolescence becomes the major obsession.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Innovation, Age, Obsession

  "Innovation is obsolete". Evergreen review, Volume 15, Issues 86-94, Grove Press, (p. 64), 1971.

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• 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, would you bend over and pick it up?!?

  Bruce Sterling

  Reign, Saws, Corny

  "The Singularity: Your Future as a Black Hole". Talk at Long Now Foundation, 2004.

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• 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 to be taken in by to avoid feeling too disappointed. Ghost towns, ghost people. The whole place has the same air of obsolescence about it as Sunset or Hollywood Boulevard.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Stars, Taken, Sunset

  Jean Baudrillard, Francesco Proto, Keith Broadfoot (2006). "Mass Identity Architecture: Architectural Writings of Jean Baudrillard", Academy Press

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• Name anything - high-definition TV, computer obsolescence - and I'm pretty much annoyed by it.

  Martin Freeman

  Names, Annoyed, Definitions

  "Biografía/ Citas personales". www.imdb.com.

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• But planned obsolescence is possible only if the rate of technological change is contained.

  David Harvey

  Technological Change, Rate, Ifs

  "The Limits To Capital". Book by David Harvey, 1982.

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• 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, accepted obsolescence, the Beatnik model being turned in for the Hippie model, as though strangely obedient to capitalist laws of marketing.

  Mary McCarthy

  Hippie, Law, Marketing

  Mary McCarthy (1968). “Hanoi”, George Weidenfeld & Nicholson

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• Journalism, spooked by rumors of its own obsolescence, has stopped believing in itself. Groans of doom alternate with panicked happy talk.

  Maureen Dowd

  Believe, Rumor, Journalism

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• Obsolescence is the very hallmark of progress.

  Henry Ford II

  Progress, Hallmark

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• La obsolescencia es un factor que dice que lo nuevo que te traigo vale más que el valor no utilizado de lo viejo.

  Charles Kettering

  Old Things, New Things, Factors

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• Obsolescence is the key to innovation.

  Homaro Cantú

  Keys, Innovation, Chef

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• 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 while you people are overconsuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster.

  Aldous Huxley

  War, People, Three

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• Obsolescence is the moment of superabundance.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Momentos

  Yeats Studies: An International Journal, Issue 2 (p. 135), 1972.

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• Toda nuestra economía se basa en la obsolescencia planificada... fabricamos buenos productos, inducimos a la gente a comprarlos, y al año siguiente introducimos deliberadamente algo que hará que esos productos queden anticuados, pasados de moda, obsoletos.

  Brooks Stevens

  Años, Personas, Próximo Año

  Citado en Vance Packard The Waste Makers (1960), cap.6. Se cree que este es el primer uso de la frase "obsolescencia planificada".

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• 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 every three to four years, in a classic cycle of planned obsolescence.

  James Surowiecki

  Depressing, Book, Years

  "Class Action". www.newyorker.com. November 7, 2005.

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• 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 obsolescence of the things they make. Or sell.

  Studs Terkel

  Men, People, Pieces

  Studs Terkel (1975). “Working”, HarperCollins

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• 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, how selfcontrolled or holy you consider yourself—your heart, if you do not guard it, will break down.

  K.P. Yohannan

  Powerful, Heart, Doe

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• Vivimos en un mundo en el que nuestro sistema social es antiguo, nuestra lengua es vieja, la forma en que adquirimos bienes y servicios es anticuada, nuestras ciudades son perjudiciales para la salud, caóticas y un tremendo despilfarro de recursos y, sobre todo, nuestra política y nuestros valores ya no nos sirven.

  Jacque Fresco

  Health, Cities, Political

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