Quotes About Reuse

When you go out to eat, bring a fork from home instead of using a plastic single-use utensil and ask them to hold the straw or use a reusable one.

One of the brilliant things about Britain is the way you've managed to save old things but to keep using them - that they've not just become museums the way they do in the United States.

The point about food is that a lot of it used to be left-overs and recycling.

People in Ember rarely threw anything away. They made the best possible use of what they had.

We are not in the business of being original. We are in the business of reusing things that work.

I love to take something very commonplace and reuse it in an original way.

Consisting mostly of recirculating scrapped metals, 80% of all the metals that have ever been mined are still at work.

A Core Competency has three attributes, according to Prahalad and Hamel: 1. It is not easy for competitors to imitate. 2. It can be reused widely for many products and markets. 3. It must contribute to the benefits the end customer experiences and the value of the product or service to customers. "Don't define Core Competencies too narrowly.

It makes a big difference to recycle. It makes a big difference to use recycled products. It makes a big difference to reuse things, to not use the paper cup - and each time you do, that's a victory.

I... briefly wondered why I kept running into repeat uses of various locations around town. This wasn't the first time I'd dealt with the bad guys choosing to reuse a location different bad guys had used before them. Maybe there was a Villainous Time-share Association. Maybe my life was actually a basic-cable television show, and they couldn't afford to spend money on new sets all the time.

Let's reuse whatever we have now, stop making more of it, take what we gather, and make - whether it's car parts, computer cases, anything that we can use.

an elevator. The doors of the elevator were gone, as were the cab and the lift mechanism, sold for reuse or for scrap.

My personal closet has mostly vintage and thrift store finds because I like to recycle in many ways.

Ruth believed in precycling. An evolution on recycling. She made use of things before people threw them out.

The mountains of things we throw away are much greater than the things we use.

the beautiful thing--perhaps the thing I love most about the gospel-- is that everything we learn we can use and take with us and use it again. No bit of knowledge goes wasted. Everything you are learning now is preparing you for something else. Did you know that? What a concept!

Inheritance is best at coding extensions based on direct customization (like our Manager specialization of Person). Composition is well suited to scenarios where multiple objects are aggregated into a whole and directed by a controller layer class. Inheritance passes calls up to reuse, and composition passes down to delegate.

By coding functions and classes in module files, we've ensured that they naturally support reuse. And by coding our software as classes, we've ensured that it naturally supports extension.

And the new people just did not appreciate the importance of recycling,

one man's trash is another man's treasure.

What About Object Pooling? In early versions of Java (around the 1.2 time frame), the idea that long-lived objects were good gained currency. I specifically remember being told that "creating an object is the second most expensive thing you can do in Java" (the first being creation of a new thread). The answer, supposedly, was to avoid creating objects whenever possible. Instead, you were supposed to keep objects around and reuse them.

Chapter 5-"Now THAT'S Leverage" discusses the idea of "software leverage," where reusing components results in greater impact. We see how the use of shell scripts achieves a high degree of leverage.

I like to think of this as ecological journalism: I recycle.

The first rule to tinkering is to save all the parts.