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“Starving the future to feed the present is a mistake - it leads to obsolescence and stagnation. Sometimes it is hard to make this understood.”

Sometimes Hard Mistake Understood Starving Stagnation Obsolescence

Author:Burton Richter

“Obsolescence is the key to innovation.”

Keys Innovation Chef Obsolescence

Author:Homaro Cantu

“The shortcomings of economics are not original error but uncorrected obsolescence. The obsolescence has occurred because what is convenient has become sacrosanct. Anyone who attacks such ideas must seem to be a trifle self-confident and even aggressive. The man who makes his entry by leaning against an infirm door gets an unjustified reputation for violence. Something is to be attributed to the poor state of the door.”

Men Ideas Self States Seems Poor Violence Doors He Man Economics Originals Errors Reputation Aggressive Convenient Trifles Shortcomings Entry Self Confident Obsolescence Unjustified

Book:The affluent society

Source: The affluent society

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

Three Civilization Universal Western Prosperity Debt Pillars Armament Obsolescence Planned Obsolescence Debt Crisis

Author:Aldous Huxley

“Only one rational path is open to us - simultaneous de-development of the [overdeveloped countries] and semi-development of the underdeveloped countries (UDCs), in order to approach a decent and ecologically sustainable standard of living for all in between. By de-development we mean lower per-capita energy consumption, fewer gadgets, and the abolition of planned obsolescence.”

“It has to be acknowledged that in capitalist society, with its herds of hippies, originality has become a sort of fringe benefit, a mere convention, accepted obsolescence, the Beatnik model being turned in for the Hippie model, as though strangely obedient to capitalist laws of marketing.”

Law Benefits Models Mere Marketing Accepted Conventions Capitalist Originality Fringe Hippie Herds Obedient Obsolescence Beatnik

Book:Hanoi

Source: Hanoi

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

Ends Fashion Obsolescence

Book:The Medium and the Light: Reflections on Religion and Media

Source: The Medium and the Light: Reflections on Religion and Media

“Instead, most colleges are studies in obsolescence.”

Study College Obsolescence

Author:Kent McCord