Quotes About Utility

They were interchangeable tools, and the catchy phrases continued without abatement.

They were all three amazingly beautiful; they were also amazingly good secretaries. In Harshaw's opinion the principle of least action required that utility and beauty be combined.

If you turn out to be useful as well as ornamental, you can stay forever.

The practical reason for continuing our system is the same as the practical reason for continuing anything: It works satisfactorily. "Nevertheless

Which would you consider more real — the abstract Architect's floor plan — which shows something nobody ever sees in experience but which all can agree serves a useful function — or the various drawings from individual perspectives, which show the plural realities that people actually see, but which have no practical function?

Instrumentalism a la John Dewey follows pragmatism in general, but especially emphasizes that the validity or utility of an idea — we have gotten rid of truth, remember? — derives from the instruments used in testing the idea, and will change as instruments improve. Like the other theories discussed thus far, Instrumentalism has had more direct influence on social science (and educational theory) than on physical science, although vastly influenced by physical science.

call it public utility districts. They are almost the same thing. Public ownership of the necessities, so that these are provided as human rights and as public goods, in a not-for-profit way. The necessities are food, water, shelter, clothing, electricity, health care, and education. All these are human rights, all are public goods, all are never to be subjected to appropriation, exploitation, and profit. It's as simple as that.

Hey, hey, no disrespecting The Truck. She's gotten me out of a lot of scrapes.

Their feathers make soft beds,' asserted Pessim. 'And my skin would make excellent drumheads,' retorted the Ork. 'Nevertheless, a plucked bird or a skinned Ork would be of no value to himself, so we needn't brag of our usefulness after we are dead. But for the sake of argument, friend Pessim, I'd like to know what good YOU would be, were you not alive?

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.

The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true by the philosopher as equally false and by the magistrate as equally useful.

Do enamorado sussuro das ondas, nós extraímos eletricidade; dessa fera brava que se desfaz em espuma fizemos um animal doméstico e, pelo mesmo método, domesticamos e submetemos o elemento bárbaro da poesia. Doravante, a poesia não é já o imperdoável trinado do rouxinol; a poesia é um serviço estatal, a poesia é utilidade.

Why buy good luggage, you only use it when you travel.

Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.

The real test of 'knowledge' is not whether it is true, but whether it empowers us. Scientists usually assume that no theory is 100 per cent correct. Consequently, truth is a poor test for knowledge. The real test is utility. A theory that enables us to do new things constitutes knowledge. Over

The real test of 'knowledge' is not whether it is true, but whether it empowers us. Scientists usually assume that no theaory is 100 per cent correct. Consequently, thruth is a poor test for knowledge. The real test is utility. A theory that enables us to do new things constitutes knowledge.

truth is a poor test for knowledge. The real test is utility.

In 1620 Francis Bacon published a scientific manifesto titled The New Instrument. In it he argued that 'knowledge is power'. The real test of 'knowledge' is not whether it is true, but whether it empowers us. Scientists usually assume that no theory is 100 per cent correct. Consequently, truth is a poor test for knowledge. The real test is utility. A theory that enables us to do new things constitutes knowledge.

All men know the use of the useful, but nobody knows the use of the useless!

Everyone knows how useful usefulness is, but no one (4:20) seems to know how useful uselessness is.

By contrast, human action, to use the "Austrian" economic term, is not merely reactive to constraints and utility functions but active and creative, the exercise of the free and creative and (some of us think) God-given will that can say yes, or no.

All models are wrong; some models are useful.

Corrupt utility companies require a corrupt legal system to protect them from their own sickened workers and the masses.

You see, if the function of a tool is removed, you have Art. Very witty, don't you think?