Rita Rudner Quotes

For every fresh stage in our lives we need a fresh education, and there is no stage for which so little educational preparation is made as that which follows the reproductive period.

The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.

Every generation’s breakthroughs are proven false by the next generation’s Technology

The child's toys and the old man's reasons are the fruits of two seasons.

The seven ages of man: spills, drills, thrills, bills, ills, pills and wills.

The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

The over-all point is that new technology will not necessarily replace old technology, but it will date it. By definition. Eventually, it will replace it. But it's like people who had black-and-white TVs when color came out. They eventually decided whether or not the new technology was worth the investment.

The fact that you can remember yesterday but not tomorrow is because of entropy. The fact that you're always born young and then you grow older, and not the other way around like Benjamin Button - it's all because of entropy. So I think that entropy is underappreciated as something that has a crucial role in how we go through life.

I just think age is meaningless. It's a system we've all agreed to that supposedly signals when we should develop, reach our peak and go downhill, as they say. It interferes with our natural growth.

Well-being changes as we move through life, which is why a child's version of it cannot be the same as an old person's.

What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.

If you try to stay young forever, you don't really live.

I'm aging, and the world is seeing it.

Displacement by technology has probably occurred since the invention of the shovel.

No particular technology lasts for long.

Innovation - the heart of technological change - is fundamentally a learning process.

We kind of deny the stages of life.

What's more interesting than the arc of lives?

And because technology is moving so rapidly, things become obsolete very, very quickly. In 15 years time, Will Caster is probably going to be in some weird room in Vegas where people are plugging quarters into him. Who has a mini-disc of a laser disc player? It's over!

And what's a life? - a weary pilgrimage, Whose glory in one day doth fill the stage With childhood, manhood, and decrepit age.

It seems as though our ability to change technology happens so quickly, and our ability to evolve as creatures is still very slow.

A good piece of technology dreams of the day when it will be replaced by a newer piece of technology. This is one definition of progress.

Technology has the shelf life of a banana.