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Having a child is sowing the seeds of your own obsolescence: birth is the fuse that leads to that other thing. You appear, you replace yourself, you die.
The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.
Immunity to obsolescence is the only obsolescent-immune conceit of the past millennium.
Name anything - high-definition TV, computer obsolescence - and I'm pretty much annoyed by it.
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.
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.
Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning.
I think that to acknowledge a new generation is to acknowledge some degree of obsolescence in yourself, and that is very hard to do and often comes with undeniable anger.
Instead, most colleges are studies in obsolescence.
People always worry that buying tech products today carries a risk of obsolescence. Most of the time, that fear is overblown.
