#obsolete

That's why editors and publishers will never be obsolete: a reader wants someone with taste and authority to point them in the direction of the good stuff, and to keep the awful stuff away from their door. ↗

— Walter Jon Williams

#away #awful #direction #door #editors

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For the most ambitious young people, the corporate ladder is obsolete.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

The Internet creates as well as destroys. Social networks, search advertising, and cloud computing are multibillion dollar industries that didn't exist 10 years ago. They are products of the same force that has rendered the Postal Service's core business obsolete. ↗

— John Sununu

#ago #business #cloud #computing #core

I can't say the advertising model is obsolete yet but it doesn't make a lot of sense in the long range. ↗

— Jay Chiat

#i #long #lot #make #model

Glorious as it had been, the city-state was obsolete. ↗

— Robert A. Dahl

#glorious #had #obsolete

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

— Peter Drucker

#becomes #course #make #obsolete #required

Either war is obsolete, or men are. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#men #obsolete #war

The popularity of Groupon has almost rendered the group-buying element of it obsolete, because we're able to deliver so many customers that the merchants are very happy with even the smallest number that we can provide. ↗

— Andrew Mason

#almost #because #customers #deliver #element

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