A Quote by Studs Terkel

Perhaps it is this specter that most haunts working men and women: the planned obsolescence of people that is of a piece with the planned obsolescence of the things they make. Or sell.

Studs Terkel

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Studs Terkel
American - Journalist
May 16, 1912 - October 31, 2008

Planned obsolescence is not really a new concept. God used it with people.

Robert Orben

Planned obsolescence is another word for progress.

James Jeffrey Roche

Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence.

Brooks Stevens

But planned obsolescence is possible only if the rate of technological change is contained.

David Harvey

It drives me crazy to throw something out. I find planned obsolescence revolting.

Jonathan Miles

Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.

Aldous Huxley

Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence...we make good products, we induce people to buy them, and then the next year we deliberately introduce something that will make these products old-fashioned, out of date, obsolete.

Brooks Stevens

Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence, and anyone who can read without moving his lips should know it by now.

Brooks Stevens

Like Godard, Tati is also remarkably appreciative of the odd beauty that can be revealed in the shapes, patterns and colors created by the technology of planned obsolescence.

Vincent Canby

Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you'd collapse. And while you people are overconsuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster.

Aldous Huxley

Rant said that view of time was set up so folks won't live forever. It's the planned obsolescence we've all agreed to...'Nothing says you have to swallow this,' Rant told me. 'You can always just die.

Chuck Palahniuk

We live in a disposable, 'cast-off and throw-away' society that has largely lost any real sense of permanence. Ours is a world of expiration dates, limited shelf life, and planned obsolescence. Nothing is absolute.

Myles Munroe

Publishers, naturally, loathe used books and have developed strategies to depress the secondhand market. They bring out new, even more expensive editions of popular textbooks every three to four years, in a classic cycle of planned obsolescence.

James Surowiecki

Every year, Planned Parenthood serves three million Americans - men and women - and one in five women will receive care at a Planned Parenthood clinic in her lifetime.

Jan Schakowsky

I have this old '57 Porsche Speedster, and the way the door closes, I'll just sit there and listen to the sound of the latch going, 'cluh-CLICK-click.' That door! I live for that door. Whatever the opposite of planned obsolescence is, that's what I'm into.