Quotes About Utility

I love my fanny pack.

A painting doesn't have to have a real usability other than you looking at it. Obviously, a car, an engine, or battery has to fit people's needs.

I always carry a pair of scissors around with me to cut things out of magazines.

Outside of white button-down oord cloth shirts, Trickers brogues, 501s, and Ray-Ban Aviators, the single item of clothing that I have had in my closet consistently since 1982 is a pair of black-and-white checked Vans. They are the lazy man's shoe - perfect for dog walking and security lines at the airport.

If the satisfaction to be derived from each successive increase in wealth is smaller than the satisfaction derived from the previous increase in wealth, then the disutility caused by a loss will always exceed the positive utility provided by a gain of equal size.

In 1738, the Papers of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg carried an essay with this central theme: "the value of an item must not be based on its price, but rather on the utility that it yields.

Design is how it works."[

People keep giving me rings. But I think a small death ray might be more practical.

Artists sometimes talk about art for art's sake. What they mean is that art has intrinsic worth: it has value in and of itself, apart from any utility. This needs to be said because there are always some people who wonder why we need art, on the assumption that in order to be a legitimate calling it must perform some practical function. But since God has made us to enjoy beauty, art itself is able to nourish our souls.

Wifi was never supposed to be a big thing and certainly not a thing that would become as vital to a home as indoor plumbing.

Do not seek for information of which you cannot make use.

If you can't eat it, shoot it, or wear it, don't bring it.

I have a pooper-scooper, a long-handled thing with a little shovel.

I like bags that are easy to wear and are pretty to look at. But I don't like them when they have no space and you can't put anything in them.

Sam enjoyed knowledge. The accumulation and distribution of facts gave him a feeling of control, of utility, of the opposite of the powerlessness that comes with having a smallish, underdeveloped body that doesn't dependably respond to the mental commands of a largish, overstimulated brain.

There is no need to waste words showing that not everything is useless which cannot be brought under the definition of the useful.

I liken myself to Henry Ford and the auto industry, I give you 90 percent of what most people need.

Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be excluded from the domain of art.

I lose pens a lot, so I don't use fancy ones.

Throwaway pens are no good - I never liked them. I've tried them all.

I liken myself to Henry Ford and the auto industry, I give you 90 percent of what most people need.

Lycurgus, who ordered that a great piece of money should be but of an inconsiderable value, on the contrary would allow no discourse to be current which did not contain in few words a great deal of useful and curious sense.

The knife in the hand of a murderer kills, but if you give it to a doctor he will heal with it.

Inflation hasn't ruined everything. A dime can still be used as a screwdriver.