#obsolete

An old dream with a shiny new veneer. It's fascinating, you know, how an obsolete madness is sometimes adopted and stylized in an attempt to ghoulishly preserve it. These are the days of second-hand fantasies and antiquated hysteria. ("The Chymist") ↗

— Thomas Ligotti

#hysteria #madness #obsolete #dreams

The sage belongs to the same obsolete repertory as the virtuous maiden and the enlightened monarch. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#enlightened #maiden #monarch #obsolete #repertory

Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#obsolete

Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station. ↗

— Ada Louise Huxtable

#more #nothing #obsolete #railroad #station

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

For the most ambitious young people, the corporate ladder is obsolete.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

— Paul Graham

#corporate #ladder #most #obsolete #people

When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course. ↗

— Peter Drucker

#becomes #course #make #obsolete #required

If American schooling is inadequate now, just imagine how much more obsolete it will be when today's kindergarten students graduate from high school in just 12 years. ↗

— Janet Napolitano

#graduate #high #high school #how #imagine

Anything on paper is obsolete! ↗

— Craig Bruce

#obsolete #paper

The nuclear weapon is obsolete. I want to get rid of them all. ↗

— Charles Horner

#i #nuclear #nuclear weapon #obsolete #rid