Outdated Practices Quotes

One who uses an ancient rule to govern the present does not necessarily see the changes that have taken place.

The U. S. Government operates like a five and dime store in an Ebay world.

It can be exalting to belong to a church that is five hundred years behind the times and sublimely indifferent to fashion; it is mortifying to belong to a church that is five minutes behind the times, huffing and puffing to catch up.

I mean, source code in files; how quaint, how seventies!

If you have a reputation as a big, stiff bureaucracy, you're stuck.

Tradition" is very often an excuse word for people who don't want to change.

Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.

Nostalgia should not set policy.

We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him as a boy as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors.

Horse-and-Carriage diplomacy, like governance by crowned heads selected by accident of birth, proved wholly inadequate to address a crisis of the Electric Age.

In the medical profession a horse and carriage are more necessary than any scientific knowledge.

It is indeed paradoxical that an industry which epitomizes all that is new and up-to-date at the same time harbours some of the oldest and least desirable attributes of work in manufacturing industry.

Courts and judges are very slow to change. They are reactive organizations.

I'm an old-school guy.

… an old idea is not necessarily a good one — slavery is an old idea; so is polygamy.

Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always become readily entangled.

[Fur] is really ridiculous. It's outrageous. We're not living in igloos. We don't need to trade pelts anymore. There is this diabolical idea that fur is fashionable. It's not. It's death. There's no excuse for it.

Why are so many companies stuck in this factory model of working?

As an outsider, you don't think of Australia as being old-fashioned - it's only when you've been here for a period of time when you realise there are issues.

As I said just now, the world has gone past me. I don't blame it; but I no longer understand it. Tradesmen are not the same as they used to be, apprentices are not the same, business is not the same, business commodities are not the same. Seven-eighths of my stock is old-fashioned. I am an old-fashioned man in an old-fashioned shop, in a street that is not the same as I remember it. I have fallen behind the time, and am too old to catch it again.

My mother did not have a toaster oven and would toast bread in the oven, which I thought was stupid. They didn't do cars and electricity, that kind of stuff.

When I was younger, we'd stay at stately homes, and at the end of dinner, women would have to leave the table. I used to sit there. I wouldn't leave. I felt England should come out of the Victorian era.

I'm as old-school as it gets in this modern era. I'm the last of a dying breed.

We do things much the same way as we did 50, 60 or even 70 years ago. The answers may not be wrong, but we haven't experimented to see whether they are or not.

The antiquity of an abuse is no justification for its continuance.