“The wise find pleasure in using a product until it is no longer usable; the foolish, in replacing an old but still usable product with a brand new one.” CapitalismMarketingAdvertisingShoppingPollutionEcologyMinimalismBrand NewPlanned ObsolescenceRetail Therapy Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence.” WholeEconomyEnvironmentalSustainabilityObsolescencePlanned Obsolescence Author:Brooks Stevens
“In an age of multiple and massive innovations, obsolescence becomes the major obsession.” AgeMajorsInnovationObsessionMassiveMultipleObsolescencePlanned Obsolescence Author:Marshall McLuhan
“But planned obsolescence is possible only if the rate of technological change is contained.” IfsRateTechnologicalObsolescenceTechnological ChangePlanned Obsolescence Author:David Harvey
“Planned obsolescence is another word for progress.” ProgressObsolescencePlanned Obsolescence Author:James Jeffrey Roche
“The more subtle thing is more speculative. The world is well past its long-term carrying capacity for human beings living a European, much less an American, lifestyle predicated on planned obsolescence. International economic growth is largely a matter of accelerated movement of materials from mines and forests to the dump. Instead of saving and buying decent furniture we can pass on to our children, we charge our credit cards for shaped heaps of sawdust and glue that fall apart in less than three or four years.” WorldYearsHumansWellsChildrenLongMatterPastFallThreeGrowthTermHuman BeingsFourEconomicMovementMinesMaterialsCapacityOur ChildrenInternationalCreditLifestyleForestsCardsSavingLong TermDecentBuyingSubtleFour YearsFalling ApartFurnitureEconomic GrowthCredit CardDumpGlueObsolescenceSawdustPlanned Obsolescence Author:Denis Hayes
“Planned obsolescence is not really a new concept. God used it with people.” PeopleUsedConceptsFunny LifeObsolescencePlanned Obsolescence Author:Robert Orben
“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.” YearsBookUsedThreeFourStrategyClassicExpensiveCyclesFour YearsDepressingPublishersTextbooksLoatheObsolescencePlanned ObsolescenceUsed Books Author:James Surowiecki
“Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you'd collapse. And while you people are overconsuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster.” PeopleIfsWorldWarThreeWasteUniversalWesternProsperityDebtDisasterCollapsePillarsArmamentObsolescencePlanned Obsolescence Author:Aldous Huxley
“Rant said that view of time was set up so folks won't live forever. It's the planned obsolescence we've all agreed to...'Nothing says you have to swallow this,' Rant told me. 'You can always just die.” SaidDiesViewsForeverFolksLive ForeverRantObsolescencePlanned Obsolescence Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence...we make good products, we induce people to buy them, and then the next year we deliberately introduce something that will make these products old-fashioned, out of date, obsolete.” PeopleYearsWholeNextEconomyProductsEconomicsIntroducingOld FashionedNext YearObsoleteObsolescencePlanned Obsolescence Author:Brooks Stevens
“Perhaps it is this specter that most haunts working men and women: the planned obsolescence of people that is of a piece with the planned obsolescence of the things they make. Or sell.” PeopleMenPiecesMen And WomenSellsWorking ManObsolescencePlanned Obsolescence Book:Working Source: Working
“Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence, and anyone who can read without moving his lips should know it by now.” KnowsShouldWholeMovingEconomyLipsMoving OnMoved OnObsolescencePlanned Obsolescence Author:Brooks Stevens
“Like Godard, Tati is also remarkably appreciative of the odd beauty that can be revealed in the shapes, patterns and colors created by the technology of planned obsolescence.” TechnologyColorShapesPatternsOddAppreciativeObsolescencePlanned Obsolescence Author:Vincent Canby
“Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.” ThreeCivilizationUniversalWesternProsperityDebtPillarsArmamentObsolescencePlanned ObsolescenceDebt 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.” MeanCountryOrderEnergyPathDevelopmentApproachStandardsRationalDecentFewerConsumptionAbolitionStandards Of LivingGadgetsSimultaneousObsolescenceUnderdeveloped CountriesEnergy ConsumptionPlanned Obsolescence Author:John Holdren