Brooks Stevens Quotes

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to buy them, and then the next year we deliberately introduce something that will make these products old-fashioned, out of date, obsolete.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

  Years, People, Next Year

  Quoted in Vance Packard The Waste Makers (1960), ch.6. This is thought to be the first use of the phrase 'planned obsolescence'.

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• Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence.

  Brooks Stevens

  Environmental, Sustainability, Economy

  Quoted in Vance Packard The Waste Makers (1960), ch.6. This is thought to be the first use of the phrase 'planned obsolescence'.

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• I believe in status symbols.

  Brooks Stevens

  Believe, Status Symbol, Symbols

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

  Brooks Stevens

  Moving On, Moved On, Lips

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