Obsolete Quotes

Marxism-Leninism is a worn-out dress that should be thrown away.

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

poverty is obsolete and hunger is abolished

Look, not embracing the 'Today' show is soooo yesterday.

I'm in a museum. I'm a relic.

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

Power corrupts, and obsolete power corrupts obsoletely.

Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.

Kids think of us as being totally over the hill.

They were viewed very much like castles, I suppose: as crumbling, obsolete relics, with no real modern function other than as tourist attractions. But when the skies darkened and the nation called, both reawoke to the meaning of their existence. One shielded our bodies, the other, our souls.

I am no longer fit for these times. We are in a new era to which I do not belong.

If to be old is not to be wise, then it is simply to be obsolete.

One of the misconceptions about BlackBerry is that it's your parents' smartphone.

My alphabet book at Duddingston Primary, Edinburgh, began traditionally with 'a is for apple,' but when it came to 'g,' it was 'g is for gas globe.' This was in the late Fifties; there hadn't been gas globes for decades. The textbook must have been 30 or 40 years old!

Our world, like a charnel-house, is strewn with the detritus of dead epochs.

In many cases, the politicians who decided to construct a dam many years ago made mistakes. The problems a dam was built to solve sometime don't materialize or are resolved in other ways. A dam might be poorly designed or improperly constructed. For whatever reason, mistakes are made. In other instances, dams out-live their usefulness. We all make mistakes, and we all understand that an object can become obsolete. Times and conditions change.

If your customer base is aging with you, then eventually you are going to become obsolete or irrelevant. You need to be constantly figuring out who are your new customers and what are you doing to stay forever young.

The only big companies that succeed will be those that obsolete their own products before somebody else does.

The House of Lords is like a glass of Champaign that has stood for five days.

Saying women aren't funny is now like saying Asians can't drive or saying black people have bad credit. It's just really, like, so obsolete.

Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies.

If a term becomes too popular, its irritant value is ramped up. The impulse is then to replace it with something else.

OLD, adj. In that stage of usefulness which is not inconsistent with general inefficiency, as an "old man". Discredited by lapse of time and offensive to the popular taste, as an "old" book.

To campaign against colonialism is like barking up a tree that has already been cut down.

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