Obsolete Quotes

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Michael  Grant
“He found a set of encyclopedias—like Wikipedia, but paper and very bulky.”
Michael Grant, Gone

Susan Sontag
“But the very question of whether photography is or is not an art is essentially a misleading one. Although photography generates works that can be called art --it requires subjectivity, it can lie, it gives aesthetic pleasure-- photography is not, to begin with, an art form at all. Like language, it is a medium in which works of art (among other things) are made. Out of language, one can make scientific discourse, bureaucratic memoranda, love letters, grocery lists, and Balzac's Paris. Out of photography, one can make passport pictures, weather photographs, pornographic pictures, X-rays, wedding pictures, and Atget's Paris. Photography is not an art like, say, painting and poetry. Although the activities of some photographers conform to the traditional notion of a fine art, the activity of exceptionally talented individuals producing discrete objects that have value in themselves, form the beginning photography has also lent itself to that notion of art which says that art is obsolete. The power of photography --and its centrality in present aesthetic concerns-- is that it confirms both ideas of art. But the way in which photography renders art obsolete is, in the long run, stronger.”
Susan Sontag, On Photography

Toba Beta
“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 [Betelgeuse Incident], Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
Richard Buckminster 'Bucky' Fuller

Warren Ellis
“You people don't know what the truth is! It's there, just under the bullshit, but you never look! That's what I hate most about this fucking city-- Lies are news and truth is obsolete!”
Warren Ellis, Transmetropolitan, Vol. 1: Back on the Street

Thomas Ligotti
“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, The Nightmare Factory

Jasper Fforde
“For myself, I favored the abstract. I collected not just obsolete terms and words, but ideas.”
Jasper Fforde, Shades of Grey

Will Advise
“Having no applicable skills, in any possible area whatsoever, effectively makes me the master of redundancy. But that info is obsolete, like my insults dictionary, which I stole.”
Will Advise, Nothing is here...

Luther Burbank
“A theory of personal resurrection or reincarnation of the individual is untenable when we but pause to consider the magnitude of the idea. On the contrary, I must believe that rather than the survival of all, we must look for survival only in the spirit of the good we have done in passing through.

Once obsolete, an automobile is thrown to the scrap heap. Once here and gone, the human life has likewise served its purpose. If it has been a good life, it has been sufficient. There is no need for another.”
Luther Burbank

Ambrose Bierce
“OBSOLETE, adj. No longer used by the timid. Said chiefly of words. A word which some lexicographer has marked obsolete is ever thereafter an object of dread and loathing to the fool writer, but if it is a good word and has no exact modern equivalent equally good, it is good enough for the good writer. Indeed, a writer's attitude toward "obsolete" words is as true a measure of his literary ability as anything except the character of his work. A dictionary of obsolete and obsolescent words would not only be singularly rich in strong and sweet parts of speech; it would add large possessions to the vocabulary of every competent writer who might not happen to be a competent reader.”
Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“In the works of Shakespeare, the most wonderful genius the world has ever known, there is the enormous number of 15,000 different words, but almost 10,000 of them are obsolete or meaningless today.”
Joseph Devlin, How To Speak And Write Correctly

Marston James
“To reach the pinnacle of your writings potential; productivity becomes obsolete.”
Marston James

Kate Atkinson
“After Marlee was born they rented videos and fell asleep in front of them. Now, like so much else in Jackson's world, videos were obsolete.”
Kate Atkinson, Started Early, Took My Dog

Toba Beta
“Binary approach is an obsolete school of thought in the process of structuring human perception towards reality. True nature of the reality fits better with spectrum approach.”
Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

Steven Magee
“Windows 7 is on its way to being an obsolete product. Keeping it on your computer long term will leave you with an obsolete computer. Windows 10 has numerous problems, but lack of support soon is not one of them.”
Steven Magee

“Be persistent, be persistent, they say. But please, do not mistake being a pest for being persistent.”
Nike Thaddeus

Steve Toutonghi
“He had fashioned himself into a complex and intricate piece of living machinery, closely engineered for a now obsolete purpose.”
Steve Toutonghi, Side Life

“As we change our worlds, we change our bodies. The old duality between environmental health and human health is obsolete.”
James Hamblin, Clean: The New Science of Skin

Tom Robbins
“Naturally, it is too good to be true. Diamond's idea of helping you with your job is to lecture you on the obsolete and retrograde nature of salaried employment. He goes on at length, in his constricted nasal manner, about how, in our social history, jobs are an aberration, a flash in the pan. Human beings have been on earth for a million years, he claims (you think he's mistaken about that), but have only had jobs for the past five hundred years (that doesn't sound right, either), an inconsequential period, relatively speaking. People have always worked, he explains, but they have only held jobs with wages and employers and vacations and pink slips--for a very short time.”
Tom Robbins, Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas

Vincent H. O'Neil
“No matter how devastating a weapon or a tool might be, the moment you use it, somebody starts working on a way to nullify that advantage.”
Vincent H. O'Neil, The Gathering Elements

John Joclebs Bassey
“Everything trending was once not trending. And everything not trending, give it time.”
John Joclebs Bassey, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

John Joclebs Bassey
“No fashion or trend is ever outdated, because in due time, it will find its way back.”
John Joclebs Bassey, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“If you don’t like to change, you become obsolete.”
Sunday Adelaja

Hrishikesh Agnihotri
“It's only after you upgrade to a better technology that you realize how obsolete the previous one has now become.”
Hrishikesh Agnihotri

“When you’re giving all the time,
You’re the best, you’re very sweet,
The minute the giving stops,
You become obsolete.”
Charmaine J. Forde

“The new reality is, the quest for a 'good' woman has come to an end. It's obsolete. A good woman nowadays has become an 'available' woman and the last resort to usually men who've failed at every attempt to find a woman who truly makes their heart skip a beat.”
Lebo Grand

Steven Magee
“I had taken an obsolete astronomical spectral gas tube home from the observatory for use as an ornament. Many years later I broke the specialized gas tube in the home. In the days afterwards I started experiencing sickness that I had been reporting to my doctor during working at the high altitude observatory. My notes state: During the last few days my bones are starting to ache again and nerves are twitching in my body and face like they were when I worked at the Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO)...headaches...insomnia...zoning out...tired...forgetful...confusion. 5 days earlier I had been atop Kitt Peak mountain and 4 days later the sheriff disconnected my electricity.”
Steven Magee

Steven Magee
“Had I been educated by my employers as to how hazardous mercury filled spectral lamps were, I would never have taken an obsolete mercury filled spectral lamp home.”
Steven Magee