Quotes About Obsolescence

If men were necessary in the procreation process, they'd have gone the way of the dodo bird long ago.

We've frequently been trapped by things that used to work well but no longer do.

THE REINVENTION KILLERS Yesterday's Breadwinners Every product or service has a natural life cycle that begins with an introduction, followed by growth, maturity, and inevitably a decline as it becomes yesterday's breadwinner. There are no exceptions

Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence—those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.

When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it - whether it be a factory or a government.

Ideas that have outlived their day may hobble about the world for years, but it is hard for them ever to lead or dominate life. Such ideas never gain complete possession of a man, or they gain possession only of incomplete people.

Synergy is the VCR of media right now - discredited, outdated and left behind.

He's like an old clock the won't tell time but won't stop neither with the hands bend out of shape and the face bare of numbers and the alarm rusted silent, an old worthless clock that keeps ticking and cuckooing without meaning nothing.

In this business (showbiz) it takes time to be really good and by that time, you're obsolete.

The printed word will be around long after many of our digital creations are gone, either because books don't require monthly hosting, and blogs and websites do... or because the languages and platforms for which a particular digital creation was published will become obsolete.

bewildering patchwork of technologies that are inefficient, hard to change, and rigid.

You're way behind the times. Doesn't matter how handy it is. People get rid of anything old. That's modern life for ya.

It is much harder to struggle against irrelevance than against exploitation.

When the car replaced the horse-drawn carriage, we didn't upgrade the horses – we retired them. Perhaps it is time to do the same with Homo sapiens.

technology. Homo sapiens is an obsolete algorithm. After all, what's the advantage of

Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster. (Or, sometimes known by] Grove [the head of Intel] giveth and Gates [the head of Microsoft] taketh away.)

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

One of the many consequences of the exponential power-versus-time curve in computing, and the corresponding pace of software development, is that 50% of what one knows becomes obsolete over every 18 months.

Every application designed for 2D interfaces will be obsoleted by AR.

We have significant work to be done. We have old, antiquated systems. Remember the 8-track tape player? Think of that as our core system, and we're living in a world where everybody has an iPhone.

We initially targeted pager networks, which have been suffering for the last decade due to cell phone sales.

And then for English verses, he said, they could not be certain of lasting applause, the changes of our language being so great and sudden, that the rarest poems within few years will pass for obsolete; and therefore he used to liken the writers in English verse to ladies, that have their pictures drawn with the clothes now worn, which, though at present never so rich, and never so much in fashion, within a few years hence will make them look like anticks.

But really, why would one bother to imitate anything so vulnerable and unreliable, or with such built-in obsolescence: a central processing unit that could be utterly destroyed because some ancillary mechanical part – the heart, say, or the liver – suffered a temporary interruption? It was like losing a Cray supercomputer and all of its memory files because a plug needed changing.

It is a most gratifying sign of the rapid progress of our time that our best text-books become antiquated so quickly.