Either war is obsolete or men are.

-Fuller, R(ichard) Buckminster
  In the NewYorker, 8  Jan.

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to buy them, and then the next year we deliberately introduce something that will make these products old-fashioned, out of date, obsolete.

-Stevens, Brooks
Quoted inVance Packard TheWaste Makers (1960), ch.6.This is thought to be the first use of the phrase'planned obsolescence'.