Quotes About Obsolescence

My own fear, if I have one myself, is a fear of being obsolete. This is a world that changes very fast, and one of the main human desires is to belong to, to be part of, something. It's probably one of our greatest needs next to oxygen.

Create something, sell it, make it better, sell it some more and then create something that obsoletes what you used to make.

The trouble of the Wersgorix was that they had gone too far. They had made combat on the ground obsolete, and were ill trained, ill equipped, when it happened. True, they possessed fire-beams, as well as force shields to stop those same fire-beams. But they had never thought to lay down caltrops.

Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence.

I think the 'Terminator' idea is a reasonable one - that is that one day the Internet becomes self-aware and simply says that humans are in the way. After all, if you meet an ant hill and you're making a 10-lane super highway, you just pave over the ants. It's not that you don't like the ants, it's not that you hate ants; they are just in the way.

I remember the newspapers dying like huge moths. No one wanted them back. No one missed them.

For a real glimpse into an almost vanished world, one should look...at a scorpion who so obviously has no business lingering into the twentieth century. He is not shaped like a spider and he has too many legs to be an insect. Plainly, he is a discontinued model--still running but very difficult, one imagines, to get spare parts for.

Economic growth and technological change are accompanied by what the great economist Joseph Schumpeter called creative destruction. They replace the old with the new. New sectors attract resources away from old ones. New firms take business away from established ones. New technologies make existing skills and machines obsolete.

The more apparent it is that a system is nearing an end, the more reluctant people will be to adhere to its laws.

We then return our gaze to the mirror-boxed future-towns circling us-the hard drives of our culture, where the human tribe is making flesh its deepest needs and fears; teaching machines to think; accelerating the pace of obsolescence; designing new animals to replace the animals we've erased; value adding; reconstructing the future.

No communication technology has ever disappeared, but instead becomes increasingly less important as the technological horizon widens.

I bought an Apple iPad and it was out of date sooner than a real apple would have been. We

After Marlee was born they rented videos and fell asleep in front of them. Now, like so much else in Jackson's world, videos were obsolete.

In three years, every product my company makes will be obsolete. The only question is whether we will make them obsolete or somebody else will.

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

It will lead many musicians out of the cul-de-sac they currently face. And those that do not understand will be cursed to make disposable music on laptops forever.

There's no great future in being the leading supplier to a dying industry.

Time is the deadly enemy of the technology business. Today's great idea is tomorrow's obsolete concept. The longer it takes a company to get its product to the market, the greater the likelihood a competitor will be there first. Big plans with extended schedules are a risk in any business,

Death, becoming obsolete, and trying to make a mark before leaving the world were all themes he returned to repeatedly

Turing's years at Bletchley constitute the best-documented period in his life, yet in the end his work as a code breaker amounted to a very long diversion from his dream of building a universal machine. For the bombes were about as far from universal as you could get. Their very design guaranteed their obsolescence, since it depended on the quirks and particularities of another, much smaller machine, the Enigma, of which the bombe was the huge, distorted shadow.

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

The great god Ra, whose shrine once covered acres, is filler now for crossword puzzle makers.

by operating on the principle of human and material obsolescence, America eats her history alive.

There is no hope for television by means of cathode-ray tubes.