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Quotes About Usage

Unlike almost every other commodity, information becomes more valuable the more it is used. Consider
~ Tim Wu
en terre d'Islam,] la distinction entre le sacré et le profane n'existe normalement que dans l'usage que l'on fait des œuvres d'art et non dans leurs formes : une maison n'est pas bâtie dans un style différent de celui d'une mosquée.
~ Titus Burckhardt
Blended-reality technology could play in a limited, walled-garden world, but history suggests that it won't really take off until it offers broad freedom of use.
~ Jamais Cascio
I hear what people have said about what they want to see the Opera House used for and what they don't want to see it used for.
~ Gladys Berejiklian
Brass shines with constant usage, a beautiful dress needs wearing, Leave a house empty, it rots.
~ Ovid
Pfui', I said. It is an expression I don't often use...
~ p g wodehouse
Knowledge is a tool and like all tools, its impact is in the hands of the user
~ Dan Brown
em un mot la nature et l'experience m'appirent,apres mure reflexion,que toutes les bonnes choses de l'univers ne sont bonnes pour nous que suivont l'usage que nous en faisons,et qu'on n'en jouit qu'autant qu'on s'en sert ou qu'on les amasse pour les donner aux autres,et pas plus
~ Daniel Defoe
Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity; it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
~ William Faulkner
The Standish Group's 2002 "Chaos" study of software project success and failure rates states that in a typical software system, 45% of features are never used. Only 7% of features are always used, and another 13% are used often.
~ Chris Sims
It is a veiling of alternatives, a way of making sure you don't reject the choice Mother's made for you. No matter what, you will not starve. She has a hunch that over the years, usage of this recipe has always fallen on the shadow side of things.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
Grant that a man has a right to appropriate such natural elements as he can use, has he any right to appropriate more than he can use? Has a guest in such a case as I have supposed a right to appropriate more than he needs and make other people stand up? That is what is done.
~ Henry George
You weren't using the moon for anything. Only some long-term robot storage.
~ Leonard Richardson
As far as a truly radical conscience, you have to take it as part of a larger thing, that it was sort of historical inevitability that with the coming of a leaguer society people would start to use drugs a lot more then they had before.
~ Lester Bangs
Every usage, no matter how bizarre or nonstandard, fascinates me, as it tells me something about the way language is evolving.
~ David Crystal
Their Internet usage is growing very rapidly, and even they can do the math: If everyone in China needed an IPv4 address - just one - this country would use up one third of the entire public IP address space.
~ Vint Cerf
No business is good when, on the last day of the month, you're like, 'What was the usage for the month?'
~ Payal Kadakia
Bitcoin can be programmed, metered, and exchanged by connected devices, enabling more efficient usage of our planet's resources and services.
~ Jeremy Allaire
The main Facebook usage is so big. About 20 percent of the time people spend on their phone is on Facebook.
~ Mark Zuckerberg
We have these services that people love and that are drivers of data usage... and we want to work this out, so that way, it's a profitable model for our partners.
~ Mark Zuckerberg
Again, like I said, we're not trying to censor anyone. If you think drugs are cool, fine. Make that movie. We are not going to stop you, or try to stop you, but we would encourage other people to be a bit more responsible about their portrayal of drug usage.
~ Gerald McRaney
I have heard my fill of hurtful words. I think it's especially egregious when citizens like me, who point out abuses in their country, are referred to as 'do-gooders.' This is how a phrase that can be used to stop an argument dead becomes part of common usage.
~ Gunter Grass
Computing shows up in many different ways. You have computing that you wear, computing that you carry. What you think of as the traditional PC market has a long tail of usage, particularly in the commercial world, but also in consumer.
~ Michael Dell
The kind of programming that C provides will probably remain similar absolutely or slowly decline in usage, but relatively, JavaScript or its variants, or XML, will continue to become more central.
~ Dennis Ritchie