Obsolete Quotations

I sold Blockbuster because I saw what was coming: the satellite dish, technology that would make the business obsolete in a few years. Why would people go to a store for a video and then have to return it when they had a dish?

We will all, someday, experience death, and become obsolete as a dead leaf falling from a tree, crushed by passersby to ashes underlying the earth.

I could list hundreds of words I've come up against in the course of my work that did not exist in the era of which I was writing and for which I never could find a suitably old-time, archaic or obsolete substitute.

The defense of marriage is the defense of freedom. Neither of which is obsolete.

If we say the Geneva Convention is obsolete, then what do others who have our soldiers say?

Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel peace prize.

The banked oval tracks are obsolete tracks for Indy cars.

Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.

Marriage is obsolete and a trap.

We were attracted to it because we thought it was irreverent and poignant, and because of the obsolete technology.

Someone is going to make your product obsolete. Make sure it's you.

I've no objection to morality, except that it's obsolete.

The institution of marriage is obsolete

An ounce of logic can be worth more than a ton of tradition that has become obsolete through the weathering of time.

His (Stringer's) business model is just a continuation of Idei's formula for growth, which means he doesn't have a new business model, ... It's a business model has been made obsolete by the digital era, and if the company is not able to change this model there is no way they will survive.

History always changes and everything that we owned 10 years ago is becoming obsolete electronically.

Over the course of the last generation or two, a variety of technological, economic and social changes have rendered obsolete the stuff of American social capital.

Restocking fees are more prevalent in consumer electronics because the merchandise tends to become obsolete very quickly.

Some of the studies use what appear to be obsolete data or data whose quality cannot be verified.

When talking about equipment, it's important to look at what kind of equipment the fund will be buying, ... It may be the kind of equipment with a long life that doesn't become obsolete over time. An airplane, for example, lasts over the long term and has a good resale value, but computer equipment may have a shorter useful term.

We don't want to order these companies to spend $100,000 on something that's going to be obsolete before it's paid for.

We haven't made any decisions, but in my opinion the building is obsolete as it relates to the vision for the downtown development of Wickenburg. It has worked well in the past, but will probably be replaced with more suitable retail or office space that will better promote pedestrian traffic in the area.

We're entering a market where it's often the case where you are working with and competing with established companies. We can provide a much better cost equation in term of restoring data, but that does not obsolete products for data archiving purposes.

In education, parody is obsolete.

The fastest thing computers do is go obsolete.

I once used the word OBSOLETE in a headline, only to discover that 43 per cent of housewives had no idea what it meant. In another headline, I used the word INEFFABLE, only to discover that I didn't know what it meant myself.

You have to be willing to attack yourself, making your own technology obsolete with new products. It's hard for some companies to do that, and if you don't, someone will. That's what happened to them.

While it's true that capacity use rates are very low, it's also true that much of that capacity has been rendered obsolete by technological advances and that replacement of capital is faster than it used to be. So a lot of businesses may feel they have little choice but to spend, if they want to preserve their competitive edge.

Under the old process, we would have to send the builder numerous brochures that were already obsolete by the time they opened them. Now, the builder can show their customers the latest styles with a few simple clicks of the mouse.

Up to 80% of all obsolete electronics that gets collected ends up getting exported.

Washington is overrun by interests who want to take an ever larger share of taxpayer dollars for their causes, ... They put their pet programs, however ineffective, duplicative, obsolete or unimportant, ahead of larger national goals.

Between technology and globalization, a large majority of U.S. white-collar jobs will become obsolete and either eliminated or dramatically altered,

I understand the nostalgia of having paper to feel and smell when you read it, but I would rather have fond memories of newspapers that have become obsolete than fond memories of beautiful forests that have become obsolete.

The standard method by which we have been measuring obesity is obsolete and should be replaced by the waist-to-hip ratio,

The term "comics" long ago became obsolete and inaccurate. It merely defined the content of the early joke-based comical strips. "Sequential Art" is a more accurate description of the form. I first suggested it because I believed something needed to be done to correct the feeling of inferiority by artists and writers in this field.

This company has a lot of leading-edge chip designers behind them, as well as the inventor of Linux. So they've got the skills set to develop something that is based around the current paradigm that takes advantage of the technologies that exist today, as opposed to technologies that have either become obsolete -- or certainly old -- over the last five years.

They neglected to get our oil supplies and our submarines. The battleships they did get were beginning to become obsolete anyway.

It (Oxford) is a sanctuary in which exploded systems and obsolete prejudices find shelter and protection after they have been hunted out of every corner of the world

If you don't have computer protection against those problems, they will build up over time and slow the computer to a crawl. If you take care of computers, they will be obsolete long before they stop running.

Children don't read to find their identity, to free themselves from guilt, to quench the thirst for rebellion or to get rid of alienation. They have no use for psychology.... They still believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other such obsolete stuff.... When a book is boring, they yawn openly. They don't expect their writer to redeem humanity, but leave to adults such childish illusions.

Chemical propulsion is obsolete to go anywhere other than the moon. Three days - that's acceptable. But for Mars, we need propulsion technologies to get us there in, say, 60 days - then spend whatever length of time we want to spend and return when we want to come home.

Art is obsolete now. New technologies are taking over.

While facts never become obsolete or stale, commentaries always do.

If I don't have my laptop I might as well go home. The downside is they keep upgrading so much. Things go obsolete so quickly.

How many shots does it take before the concept ay choice becomes obsolete?

Profane eloquence is transfered from the bar, where Le Maitre, Pucelle, and Fourcroy formerly practised it, and where it has become obsolete, to the Pulpit, where it is out of place.

Rebellion is obsolete - change things from the inside working out.

What's the difference between obsolete and cutting edge? Obsolete works.

You can't change anything by fighting or resisting it. You change something by making it obsolete through superior methods.

Dear reader, traditional human power structures and their reign of darkness are about to be rendered obsolete.

If it works, it's obsolete.

Power corrupts, and obsolete power corrupts obsoletely.

Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.

Comedies of manners swiftly become obsolete when there are no longer any manners.

The concept of randomness and coincidence will be obsolete when people can finally define a formulation of patterned interaction between all things within the universe.

Ay, ay, the best terms will grow obsolete: damns have had their day.

Im pretty quick to delete something off of my phone if its become obsolete. And things like RSS readers have made life easier - all of the headlines are going to be related to a topic Im interested in.

The Word of God is either absolute or obsolete.

poverty is obsolete and hunger is abolished

Politics And Religion Are Obsolete, The Time Has Come For Science And Spirituality

All religions are based on obsolete terminology.

The future is but the obsolete in reverse.

In three years, every product my company makes will be obsolete. The only question is whether we will make them obsolete or somebody else will.

Look, we have to get this thing under a thousand dollars. But we can afford to pay up to that because we have to live with these things for five years. We don't want to buy something that's going to be obsolete in nine months.

I gleaned jests at home from obsolete farces.

Adults are only obsolete children.

War is out of date, obsolete.

Capitalism is about producing a better product at a better price. As individuals, we have to keep producing better products at a better price, also, or we're obsolete.

Humans cannot find freedom until they let go of old obsolete ideas.

Obsolete weapons do not deter.

The only skill that will be important in the 21st century is the skill of learning new skills.Everythi ng else will become obsolete over time.

Management must take the lead in making obsolete its own products and services rather than waiting for a competitor to do so.

The image of God always abides in the soul, whether this image be obsolete and clouded over as to amount to almost nothing; or whether it be obscured or disfigured, as is the case with sinners; or whether it be clear and beautiful as is the case with the just.

The religions are obsolete when the reforms do not proceed from them.

All the work I've done in my life will be obsolete by the time I'm fifty.