Today the West exists only to bear witness to its own obsolescence.
Planned obsolescence is another word for progress.
Obsolescence is the very hallmark of progress.
Obsolescence is the moment of superabundance.
Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning.
Go spit in the face of our inevitable obsolescence and finish your @#$&ng novel.
But planned obsolescence is possible only if the rate of technological change is contained.
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.
Styling is designing for obsolescence.
Obsolescence is the key to innovation.
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.
God made the human body like a machine with built-in obsolescence.
Instead, most colleges are studies in obsolescence.
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.
Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence.
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.
Parents accept their obsolescence with the best grace they can muster. . . they do all they can to make it easy for the younger generation to surpass the older, while secretly dreading the rejection that follows.
Obsolescence is a fate devoutly to be wished, lest science stagnate and die.
Starving the future to feed the present is a mistake - it leads to obsolescence and stagnation. Sometimes it is hard to make this understood.
Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence.
