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Quotes About Obsolete

I can't say the advertising model is obsolete yet but it doesn't make a lot of sense in the long range.
~ Jay Chiat
One feels that things are about to change. I have felt this all my life. It is a readiness that robs every act of meaning, making every situation obsolete, putting the present into the past.
~ Russell Edson
its underlying principles are in such close harmony with the absolute and eternal right that they can never become obsolete. At the same time, the division and arrangement of the treatise give it, so far as I know, the precedence over all other ethical treatises ancient or modern.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
How strange to remember typewriters, with their jammed keys and snarled ribbons and the smudgy carbon paper for copies.
~ Margaret Atwood
Too friendly, too eager to be on message, man is obsolete, dooming ourselves to extinction, restore the balance of nature and babble babble, he overdid it so much that he sounded preposterous, and in an outfit like Bearlift, with its full quota of preposterous green-hued furfuckers, that took some effort.
~ Margaret Atwood
So true," said Miss Violence, with a sigh. But she sighed about everything. She fit into Avilion very well – into its obsolete Victorian splendours, its air of aesthetic decay, of departed grace, of wan regret. Her attitudes and even her faded cashmeres went with the wallpaper. Laura
~ Margaret Atwood
The political technology of the Industrial age is no longer appropriate technology for the new civilization taking form around us. Our politics are obsolete.
~ Alvin Toffler
A CD. How quaint. We have these in museums.
~ Eoin Colfer, The Eternity Code
In spite of advances in technology and changes in the economy, state government still operates on an obsolete 1970s model. We have a typewriter government in an Internet age.
~ Matt Blunt
With current technology it is possible to put four floppy disk drives in a personal computer. It is just that doing so would be pointless.
~ Andrew S. Tanenbaum
Technology is changing so fast that knowledge about specifics can quickly become obsolete. That's why so much of what technicians learn is on the job.
~ Robert Reich
We must see that Moses is finished as a lawgiver just as Aaron is finished as a priest. Aaron was replaced with a new high priest who is greater and better (Heb. 6:20-8:6). Moses has been replaced with a new lawgiver who is greater and better. The covenant of law that God gave through Moses has been replaced with a new covenant that is greater and better, simply because the old one was obsolete (Heb. 8:6-13).
~ John G. Reisinger
En pocas palabras, cada carta, un método de comunicación realmente antiguo en el mundo de los mensajes instantáneos, el correo electrónico, los SMS y los teléfonos móviles, estaba más pasada de moda que las señales de humo, las palomas mensajeras o el código Morse. Las cartas no contenían más que un mensaje sencillo y aparentemente elegido al azar.
~ John Katzenbach
Aging nations have arteries clogged with obsolete laws, slowing blood flow and preventing oxygen from reaching all parts of the body politic. Physicians call this arteriosclerosis; historians see decline of empire.
~ Jim Cooper
The evening news is a concept whose time has come and gone.
~ Bernard Goldberg
No one uses a ribbon typewriter any more, but your final draft is not the time to try to wring a few more sheets out of your inkjet cartridge.
~ Lynn Abbey
The Olympic stadium may have been built only in the early 1970s but it was clear for a long time it had no future. For many reasons it is not good enough for modern football and today's fans.
~ Franz Beckenbauer
But many generations had passed since anyone had had a use for a set of seven-figure logarithms, an atlas of the world, and the score of Sibelius's Seventh Symphony printed, according to the flyleaf, by H. K. Chu & Sons at the City of Pekin in the year AD 2021.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Television is dead. And television will not be reborn. It will not come back.
~ Nicolas Winding Refn
Mere recording of an event will not make it a historical document. It will become obsolete with time. Only those that emotionally connect with the audience will stand the test of time.
~ Ilaiyaraaja
I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.
~ Ronald Reagan
New technologies are wreaking havoc on employment figures - from EZpasses ousting toll collectors to Google-controlled self-driving automobiles rendering taxicab drivers obsolete.
~ Douglas Rushkoff
Kamila Shamsie, Kartography
~ This world is out of date
OLD, adj. In that stage of usefulness which is not inconsistent with general inefficiency, as an "old man". Discredited by lapse of time and offensive to the popular taste, as an "old" book.
~ Ambrose Bierce