Quotes About Practicality

The average user doesn't give a damn what happens, as long as (1) it works and (2) it's fast.

Those who incline to very strictly utilitarian views may perhaps feel that the peculiar powers of the Analytical Engine bear upon questions of abstract and speculative science rather than upon those involving everyday and ordinary human interests.

I'd like to have a 15 million euro villa, but if I can't afford it, I have to look for an apartment that I like.

Without vision you don't see, and without practicality the bills don't get paid.

I don't think there's any one definition, but to do effective political work you have to have vision and practicality, and learn how to persuade people that what you feel needs to be done does need to be done.

Here's how I work: It's 2013, and most marketers are operating like it's 2009. I'm always trying to market like it's 2015, but not like it's 2020. A lot of my contemporaries who understand where the world is going, go too far out, and aren't practical. I have always prided myself on being visionary, with a heavy practicality.

Knowledge counts but common sense matters.

People tell me, "You're such an optimist". Am I an optimist? An optimist says the glass is half full. A pessimist says the glass is half empty. A survivalist is practical. He says, "Call it what you want, but just fill the glass." I believe in filling the glass.

People tell me, "You're such an optimist." Am I an optimist? An optimist says the glass is half full. A pessimist says the glass is half empty. A survivalist is practical. He says, "Call it what you want, but just fill the glass." I believe in filling the glass. —LOUIS SILVIE ZAMPERINI

A belief of convenience isn't much use, is it?

You can get a goat to climb tree, but you'd be better off hiring a squirrel.

A profound common sense is the best genius for statesmanship.

Don't try to skin your rabbit and keep it as a pet too.

Great leaders always seem to embody two seemingly disparate qualities. They are both highly visionary and highly practical.

My car runs on gas, not friendship. So pay the fu.. up.

Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable.

A strong woman, is one who loves deeply, and loves fiercely, her tears flow just as abundantly as her laughter. A strong woman is both soft and powerful. She is both practical and Spiritual... A strong Woman in her essence is a gift to the WORLD!

The best design is the simplest one that works.

A brute force solution that works is better than an elegant solution that doesn't work.

The principal and only way to make an heirloom product is to design something that people will need not just this year, but for the next 50 or 100 years.

I give dignity second place to expedience.

Saturn doesn't ask us to give up our dreams, only to make them real.

Common sense without education, is better than education without common sense.

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