Quotes About Obsolete

Love is an obsolete emotion, ranking in usefulness somewhere between earwigs and toe mold.

In any major conflict, each side fights for its own cause—a belief system they consider worth dying for. Alas, there is not an objective, omnipotent arbiter who can simply decide the merits of each issue and put them to rest without bloodshed, thereby rendering armed conflict obsolete. —GILBERTUS ALBANS, Conversations with Erasmus

Only people can be made to increase in value. Computers and other equipment depreciate and eventually become obsolete.

I had 8-tracks when I was a kid.

Old preconceptions were in tatters, old loyalties were obsolete. Whole societies were paralyzed by the mind-blasting vistas of absolute possibility.

In order to change an existing paradigm you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model. You create a new model and make the old one obsolete.

Speaking of bones recalls an ugly custom of theirs, now obsolete—that of making fish-hooks and gimlets out of those of their enemies. This beats the Scandinavians turning people's skulls into cups and saucers. But

The Cold War practice of garrisoning large numbers of troops with their families on massive bases in places like Germany is now, in part, obsolete.

The nuclear weapon is obsolete. I want to get rid of them all.

If we say the Geneva Convention is obsolete, then what do others who have our soldiers say?

Every cure for nostalgia is obsolete.

Janie and Jodie looked at him as if he were an out-of-date computer chip.

I'm a dinosaur way past my sell-by date.

I feel that education needs an overhaul - courses are obsolete and grades are on the way out.

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.

Over long distances, it is expensive to transport structures, and inexpensive to transmit sequences. Turing machines, which by definition are structures that can be encoded as sequences, are already propagating themselves, locally, at the speed of light. The notion that one particular computer resides in one particular location at one time is obsolete.

Ah wis gaunny say thit Tommy hud a choice; wee Maria disnae. Aw that would huv done wis precipitate an argument aboot whair choice began and ended. How many shots does it take before the concept ay choice becomes obsolete? Wish tae fuck ah knew. Wish tae fuck ah knew anything.

I remember that, one day, I was visiting one training center in the 1990s that was teaching people how to fix Volkswagen engines from the 1960s, which were no longer sold. So you were training people on a skill that had zero value. The reason is that they hadn't received any new equipment in 20 years.

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

The principle of neutrality ... has increasingly become an obsolete conception, and, except under very special circumstances, it is an immoral and shortsighted conception.

Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.

For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned.