It had to happen to me sometime: sooner or later, I would have to lose sight of the cutting edge. That moment every technical person fears - the fall into knowledge exhaustion, obsolescence, techno-fuddy-duddyism - there was no reason to think I could escape it forever.

Ellen Ullman

The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Art Linkletter

Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence.

Brooks Stevens

I think that to acknowledge a new generation is to acknowledge some degree of obsolescence in yourself, and that is very hard to do and often comes with undeniable anger.

Douglas Coupland

It had to happen to me sometime: sooner or later, I would have to lose sight of the cutting edge. That moment every technical person fears - the fall into knowledge exhaustion, obsolescence, techno-fuddy-duddyism - there was no reason to think I could escape it forever.

Ellen Ullman

Publishers, naturally, loathe used books and have developed strategies to depress the secondhand market. They bring out new, even more expensive editions of popular textbooks every three to four years, in a classic cycle of planned obsolescence.

James Surowiecki

I have this old '57 Porsche Speedster, and the way the door closes, I'll just sit there and listen to the sound of the latch going, 'cluh-CLICK-click.' That door! I live for that door. Whatever the opposite of planned obsolescence is, that's what I'm into.

Jerry Seinfeld

It drives me crazy to throw something out. I find planned obsolescence revolting.

Jonathan Miles

Instead, most colleges are studies in obsolescence.

Kent McCord

I personally am not so obsessed about immortality for myself. The human body has been designed that way, obsolescence is OK.

Lisa Joy

Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning.

Marshall McLuhan

Name anything - high-definition TV, computer obsolescence - and I'm pretty much annoyed by it.

Martin Freeman

Immunity to obsolescence is the only obsolescent-immune conceit of the past millennium.

Matt Mullenweg

Journalism, spooked by rumors of its own obsolescence, has stopped believing in itself. Groans of doom alternate with panicked happy talk.

Maureen Dowd

Having a child is sowing the seeds of your own obsolescence: birth is the fuse that leads to that other thing. You appear, you replace yourself, you die.

Michael Redhill

We live in a disposable, 'cast-off and throw-away' society that has largely lost any real sense of permanence. Ours is a world of expiration dates, limited shelf life, and planned obsolescence. Nothing is absolute.

Myles Munroe

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

Robert Orben

Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence.

Tony Benn