Quotes About Practicality

We obviously want to produce things that people want. We are going to continue to do that in an environmentally responsible way, while still being aware of the physical, scientific, and practical issues that we have to deal with.

More often there's a compromise between ethics and expediency.

I don't bring anything expensive to the dorms.

I can't cut out a piece of cloth and make a lovely dress, but I can mend tears in shirts and sew on buttons.

3D printers give us what we've all been craving: another reason to talk to technical support. When you finally get the thing working, though, you'll be able to print out your grocery list as a cube! When you look up directions online, you can print the map out on a globe!

The marketplace judges technologies by their practical effectiveness, by whether they succeed or fail to do the job they are designed to do.

My boyfriend keeps telling me I've got to own things. So, first I bought this car. And then he told me I oughta get a house. 'Why a house?' 'Well, you gotta have a place to park the car.'

if we do not make the journey from theories and ideals to concrete situations, then the concrete situations will be lost under a smog of words.

I am assured at any rateMan's practically inexterminate.Someday I must go into that.There's always been an AraratWhere someone someone else begatTo start the world all over at.

Above all, if what you've done is stupid, but it works, it ain't stupid.

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

imagined herself telling her fiancé, "But we've got the Land Rover, Matt, there's no point trying to save for an Audi now!" "It could be really useful for work," she said aloud, "if we need to go outside London. Strike

Weird and fantastic as it seems, the Fourierist idea took some hold, even in that fortress of practicality and common sense, the United States. At one time there were over forty phalansteries in this country, and if one groups together the Owenite communities and the religious movements of various sorts, there were at least one hundred and seventy-eight actual Utopian groups with from fifteen to nine hundred members each.

And there's always the comfort of knowing that you're dealing with the necessities of a situation and not with the vagaries of some fool's whim.

Qué desapasionado, prosaicamente práctico, noblemente soso es nuestro tiempo. Aunque tal vez tenga también su lado bueno: uno puede distinguirse por su extravagancia.

Ideas are worth nothing unless backed by application. The smallest of implementations is always worth more than the grandest of intentions.

Wisdom without proper tools for its application is no wisdom at all.

I shared his love of the countryside and of the old ways of building; I believed, as he did, that the modernist styles of architecture that were desecrating our town were also destroying its social fabric; and I saw, for the first time in my life, that it is always right to conserve things, when worse things are proposed in their place. That a priori law of practical reason is also the truth in conservatism.

Throughout his career, he operated in the realm of the possible, taking the world as it was, not as he wished it to be, and he often inveighed against a dogmatic insistence upon perfection.

No reason to look for complications. You hear hoof beats, you look for horses, not zebras.

But nobody had been interested in inert and prosaic things like crowbars.

I don't want a sharp chick who quotes Kerouac; I just want to hear my old lady say, "Get up and fix the toilet, it's still making noise.

Knowledge isn't power until it is applied.

I was originally supposed to become an engineer but the thought of having to expend my creative energy on things that make practical everyday life even more refined, with a loathsome capital gain as the goal, was unbearable to me.