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Michael  Grant
“He found a set of encyclopedias鈥攍ike 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have value in themselves, form the beginning photography has also lent itself to that notion of art which says that art is obsolete.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

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 That's what I hate most about this fucking city-- Lies are news and truth is obsolete!”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

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 But that info is obsolete, like my insults dictionary, which I stole.”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...

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

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

“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

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鈥檙e giving all the time,
You鈥檙e the best, you鈥檙e 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

Sarah Kissane
“And if we don鈥檛 lift our voice 鈥� with intention, urgency, and truth 鈥� we risk becoming fluent in technology, but silent in humanity.鈥�
鈥� Obsolete: The Education Wake-Up Call”
Sarah Kissane, Obsolete: The Education Wake-Up Call

Sarah Kissane
“We taught the map. But not how to read the land.鈥�
鈥� Sarah Kissane, Obsolete: The Education Wake-Up Call”
Sarah Kissane, Obsolete: The Education Wake-Up Call

Sarah Kissane
“What if the system isn鈥檛 broken 鈥� what if it was built this way?鈥�
鈥� Sarah Kissane, Obsolete: The Education Wake-Up Call”
Sarah Kissane

Sarah Kissane
“Soft doesn鈥檛 mean silent. And truth doesn鈥檛 mean loud.鈥�
鈥� Sarah Kissane, Obsolete: The Education Wake-Up Call”
Sarah Kissane, Obsolete: The Education Wake-Up Call

Sarah Kissane
“The world is teaching kids to adapt to machines. But who is teaching them to be more human?鈥�
鈥� Sarah Kissane, Obsolete: The Education Wake-Up Call”
Sarah Kissane, Obsolete: The Education Wake-Up Call

Sarah Kissane
“This isn鈥檛 just a book about education. It鈥檚 a blueprint for what must come next.鈥�
鈥� Sarah Kissane, Obsolete: The Education Wake-Up Call”
Sarah Kissane, Obsolete: The Education Wake-Up Call

Sarah Kissane
“This isn鈥檛 just about fixing education. It鈥檚 about remembering what matters before we forget.鈥�
鈥� Sarah Kissane, Obsolete: The Education Wake-Up Call”
Sarah Kissane, Obsolete: The Education Wake-Up Call

Sarah Kissane
“The world is changing fast. The classroom isn鈥檛.鈥�
鈥� Sarah Kissane, Obsolete: The Education Wake-Up Call”
Sarah Kissane, Obsolete: The Education Wake-Up Call

Sarah Kissane
“If we surrender our voice now, we surrender our ability to shape what stays human.鈥�
鈥� Sarah Kissane, Obsolete: The Education Wake-Up Call”
Sarah Kissane, Obsolete: The Education Wake-Up Call

Sarah Kissane
“If we surrender our voice now, we surrender our ability to shape what stays human.
This isn鈥檛 just about resisting progress. It鈥檚 about refusing to disappear inside it.
The systems rising around us were not built to protect meaning, nuance, or soul.
And if we don鈥檛 lift our voice 鈥� with intention, urgency, and truth 鈥� we risk becoming fluent in technology, but silent in humanity.
This is not a warning.
It鈥檚 a call to remember what must remain.鈥�
鈥� Sarah Kissane, Obsolete: The Education Wake-Up Call”
Sarah Kissane, Obsolete: The Education Wake-Up Call

Sarah Kissane
“This isn鈥檛 just about resisting progress. It鈥檚 about refusing to disappear inside it.
The systems rising around us were not built to protect meaning, nuance, or soul.鈥�
鈥� Sarah Kissane, Obsolete: The Education Wake-Up Call”
Sarah Kissane, Obsolete: The Education Wake-Up Call

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