#obsolete

New technology is useful, but it's inefficient and ugly; it knows it'll be obsolete by lunchtime tomorrow, so it has no incentive to be anything else. ↗

— Tom Holt

#else #incentive #inefficient #knows #lunchtime

For the most ambitious young people, the corporate ladder is obsolete. ↗

— Paul Graham

#corporate #ladder #most #obsolete #people

Anything on paper is obsolete! ↗

— Craig Bruce

#obsolete #paper

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

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#best #day #grow #had #obsolete

Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion. ↗

— Stendhal

#hideous #nothing #obsolete

We did some soul-searching. Was the cable industry obsolete? Was it an opportune time to get out? Our conclusion was that if you rebuilt your system with this new fiber-optic coaxial hybrid - which we now call broadband - the glass was half full, not half empty. We could compete. ↗

— Brian Roberts

#cable #call #compete #conclusion #could

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. ↗

— Kim Elizabeth

#become #crushed #dead #death #earth

I'm small, sleek and fast, but I can be lost, dropped on the floor, stolen, or chucked out a window at a moment's notice! To have my brain power in my small size should be enough. I'm brainy and beautiful, but two years from now I'll be obsolete! ↗

— Deborah Shucart

#brain #brain power #brainy #dropped #enough

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. ↗

— Toba Beta

#define #formulation #interaction #life #mystery

When certain branches of the economy become obsolete, as in the case of the steel industry, not only do jobs disappear, which is obviously a terrible social hardship, but certain cultures also disappear. ↗

— Peter L. Berger

#become #branches #case #certain #cultures