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Quotes About Obsolete

You can use my phone, if you'll pay the roaming charges," I said. "I need a land line," he said "A pay phone." "You're out of touch with the times," I said. "A pay phone might be a little hard to find. Nobody uses them anymore.
~ Jeff Lindsay
I was really stuck in the whole Farah Fawcett hairdo long after it was past being in fashion.
~ Cindy Margolis
I've felt that dissatisfaction is the basis of progress. When we become satisfied in business, we become obsolete.
~ J. Willard Marriott
It's us fun being a horse when the tractor comes along, or the blacksmith when the car comes along.
~ Warren Buffett
Decisions are made by men. Men are fallible; at their best their works do not last long. Even the best decision has a high probability of being wrong. Even the most effective one eventually becomes obsolete.
~ Peter F. Drucker
Abandon what is about to be obsolete, develop a system to exploit your successes, and develop a systematic approach to innovation.
~ Peter F. Drucker
Defunct, adj. You brought home a typewriter for me.
~ David Levithan
Relatively speaking, science can provide reliable standards to verify truth in a physical, material sense, but values are not its strength. What one generation takes to be true is debunked and made obsolete by new discoveries.
~ Ilchi Lee
Betamax is the wave of the future
~ Craig Davidson
In this age, I don't care how tactically or operationally brilliant you are: if you cannot create harmony - even vicious harmony - on the battlefield based on trust across service lines, across coalition and national lines, and across civilian/military lines, you need to go home, because your leadership is obsolete.
~ Jim Mattis
The Indian education system, like the Indian bureaucratic system, is Victorian and still in the 19th century. Our schools are still designed to produce clerks for an empire that does not exist anymore.
~ Sugata Mitra
I sold Blockbuster because I saw what was coming: the satellite dish, technology that would make the business obsolete in a few years. Why would people go to a store for a video and then have to return it when they had a dish?
~ Wayne Huizenga
Why the Original Constitution Will Never Be Obsolete And that is what the Constitution is all about—providing freedom from abuse by those in authority. Anyone who says the American Constitution is obsolete just because social and economic conditions have changed does not understand the real genius of the Constitution. It was designed to control something which has not changed and will not change—namely, human nature.
~ Unknown
I shop at a computer store called 'Your Crap's Already Obsolete'.
~ Jeff Cesario
Dads are the appendix of humanity. They should just be taken out before they start causing problems.
~ Nick Burd
anachronistic
~ Dean Koontz
Prediluvian—out of date, ancient, before Noah and the Flood, white male thinking at its worst.
~ Dean Koontz
Television's going, as far as I'm concerned, downhill, and I'm an anachronism.
~ Dick Van Dyke
Seeing repeated scary images activates our brains' primitive fear circuits (in the amygdala) that are meant to ensure our survival but are now obsolete.
~ Unknown
The moral: keep your own data." Back to planning for failure: You've backed up your files, but what if you upgrade your system and they won't open?! Cook advises having a plan for migrating files. File migration refers to the process of making readable files that are no longer readable due to system, software, and hardware updates—basically, many computer file formats become obsolete. This follows from the rapid developments in the
~ Daniel J. Levitin
You made me an option, now I'm going to make you history. Lost and forgotten.
~ Unknown
Crappy old OSes have value in the basically negative sense that changing to new ones makes us wish we'd never been born.
~ Neal Stephenson
The world is full of abandoned meanings.
~ Don DeLillo
In education, parody is obsolete.
~ Alfie Kohn