Quotes About Usage

There are items that have far superior quality when manufactured in space, but need to be returned to Earth to be purchased and used by customers.

I'm a lifelong strong supporter of the Second Amendment, and I've owned and used firearms since I was 10 years old.

When I began to write, I was surprised at how little London had been used in crime fiction. Places such as Edinburgh or Oxford or L.A. seemed to have stronger identities.

The true meaning of a term is to be found by observing what a man does with it, not by what he says about it.

Those who advocate common usage in philosophy sometimes speak in a manner that suggests the mystique of the 'common man.'

In practice the word democracy is seldom used rationally. It has become for most politicians a term of endearment for the institutions they prefer or of praise for any measures that they desire.

The idea that commons can set and enforce limits on usage also seems improbable because it rejects the idea of humans having unbounded appetites. Ostrom

Knowledge is not positive or negative, it is always neutral. It is how knowledge is used that is positive or negative.

Slave-trading seems to have been coeval with the knowledge of iron. The monuments of Egypt show that this curse has venerable antiquity. Some people say, "If so ancient, why try to stop an old established usage now?" Well, some believe that the affliction that befel the most ancient of all the patriarchs, Job, was small-pox. Why then stop the ravages of this venerable disease in London and New York by vaccination?

God gave Davie Cooper a talent. He would not be disappointed with how it was used

One of the reasons that I really don't mind that people are selling Linux commercially is exactly because it does make me feel good that people use the product.

A joke was not a single-use item but something you brought out again and again until it fell apart in your hand like a cheap umbrella.

Details reveal themselves as you use what you're building. You'll see what needs more attention. You'll feel what's missing. You'll know which potholes to pave over because you'll keep hitting them. That's when you need to pay attention, not sooner. The

Jack the Orderly: I've come for your tv. You've been using too much juice. Another 10,000 kilowatts again this month. Beats me how an old, homicidal loony can use that much power.

Las calles tenían nombres descriptivos, acordes a sus condiciones y uso, como Pute-y-Muse (Puta Perezosa), Merdeuse (Mierdosa), Tire-Boudin (Tira-Vergas) y otros incluso peores.

To such effect did the Son of man claim to be Lord of the Sabbath-day; and His claim, so understood, was acknowledged by the church, when, following the traces of the apostolic usage, she changed the weekly rest from the seventh day to the first, that it might commemorate the joyful event of the resurrection of the Saviour, which lay nearer the heart of a believer than the old event of the creation, and called the first day by His name, the Lord's day.

That's one of the ways language evolved, by some very obscure form becoming common usage. And I must say that I'm very intrigued by use of language and slang, and criminal underground terms.

Outside the U.S., most data plans have a data limit.

Symbols are important. It depends on how they're used.

I'm rather cynical about the way the honours system is used, frankly. A whole lot of the honours system is used for political purposes by the government in power.

Another study of adults found the same thing: the more people used Facebook, the lower their mental health and life satisfaction at the next assessment.

Right now you should stop whatever you're doing and say this out loud: Stories get their name from how they're supposed to be used, not from what you're trying to write down.

Stories get their name from how they should be used, not what should be written.

Stories get their name not from how they're supposed to be written, but from how they're supposed to be used.