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Quotes About Usage

Wherever authority is still part of accepted usage and one does not 'give reasons' but commands, the dialectician is a kind of buffoon: he is laughed at, he is not taken seriously. – Socrates was the buffoon who got himself taken seriously: what was really happening when that happened?
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Will biofuel usage require land? Absolutely, but we think the ability to use winter cover crops, degraded land, as well as using sources such as organic waste, sewage, and forest waste means that actual land usage will be limited. Just these sources can replace most of our imported oil by 2030 without touching new land.
~ Vinod Khosla
If you are just using the service to look at Web sites and download e-mail, then a DSL line may be cheaper. It is when you have more data going out that wireless can make a difference.
~ Blake Farenthold
The one thing perhaps that technology hasn't always given us is a sense of how to make the wisest use of technology.
~ Pico Iyer
We do have business relationships; we do licensing relationships, and people want to use Google services on top of Android. But in theory, you can use Android without Google.
~ Sundar Pichai
Modern English Usage
~ Roy Peter Clark
There's a lot of controversy when it comes to theories about evolution, but when it comes to evolution in the software industry, there's only one theory that makes sense: surviving by learning from experience and usage patterns.
~ Marc Benioff
Technology provides means for expression and interchange and so on, so yes it should be free and open, but there are a lot of constraints on how its used.
~ Noam Chomsky
As devices multiply and usage changes, many users coming online today may never use a desktop machine, it becomes more and more important to ensure that people can access all of their stuff anywhere.
~ Larry Page
Everyone have power of brain but people don't know correctly time of usage. winner just know when, where & how to usage it.
~ Gamal Abdel Nasser
It strikes me as somewhat odd that the people who use God's name most frequently, both in life and in literature, usually don't believe in him.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
If grammar is the skeleton of expression and usage the flesh and blood, then style is the personality.
~ Arthur Plotnick
40 percent of arrests for drug possession in this country are for a drug that 19.8 million of us have used in the past month.
~ Ayelet Waldman
Micropayments are great if you use them for a product or service with certain properties. It must be one where you can get away with usage-based pricing, and where there is a strong rationale for making it cheap, yet not free.
~ Nathan Myhrvold
Google is one of these products that I think is incredibly habit-forming, and it's the kind of product that shows this characteristic of something that we use with little or no conscious thought.
~ Nir Eyal
Gun manufacturers and companies are responsible for bad products. They are not responsible for bad people who use their products improperly.
~ Katie Pavlich
Restricting access to such a basic health care service, which 99% of sexually experienced American women have used and 62% of American women are using right now, is out of touch with public sentiment.
~ Sandra Fluke
I'm really fascinated and you know I've been wondering about that usage of language, various breathing techniques and why in these practices language is being used in another way.
~ Kathy Acker
I'm actually all for political correctness. If you want to work to change the usage of a word that's discriminatory then fine, I'm behind you. But that's a conversation that needs to be had in the culture. You can't just decide that commonly used parts of a language are evil and that the people who didn't get the memo must be bad people.
~ Frankie Boyle
In most legislatures, punctilious attention to correct usage is considered elitist. The word 'government,' for example, is normally pronounced 'gummint'; bureaucracy is 'bureaucacy'; fiscal comes out 'physical,' and one moves not to suspend the rules, but to 'suppend.'
~ Molly Ivins
Time is a trust, and for every minute of it you will have to account.
~ John Lubbock
People have asked me a lot of times, because I didn't hit a lot, how long a dozen bats would last me. Depending on the weight and model I was using at that time - I would say eight to 10 cookouts.
~ Bob Uecker
I mean, if you go back to 1960 on major pieces of legislation, the filibuster was used about eight percent of the time.
~ Tom Udall
I use my cell phone as much as I can - I talk to friends all the time. I'm like 2,000 hours a month. It's crazy
~ Lisa Loeb