Quotes About Utility

If we cannot justify the very concept of the aesthetic, except as ideology, then aesthetic judgement is without philosophical foundation. An 'ideology' is adopted for its social or political utility, rather than its truth. And

Never trust a cat, anyway. All they're good for is stringing tennis racquets.

may have clung to the Morgan position longer than he wanted to because of its social utility.

I applied what the unofficial Humvee manual called 2-40 air-conditioning, which meant you opened two windows and drove at forty miles an hour.

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

a wish is not a fact. Even by proving that a certain view is indispensable for living well, one proves merely that the view in question is a salutary myth: one does not prove it to be true. Utility and truth are two entirely different things.

Asked what role he believes art plays in society, Baselitz replied, 'The same role as a good shoe, nothing more.

He might have proved a useful adjunct if not an ornament to society.

The gospel we preach must not be just something we hear from men or read from books or even conceived through our meditation. Unless it is delivered to us by God, it can serve no spiritual utility.

La gente registra la convinzione, tipicamente barbara, che il passato è utile solo quando e dove può diventare, immediatamente presente.

He decided there was a lot to be said for bulldozers. They were honest vehicles—honest in the sense that they did not purport to be anything other than what they were.

What good is a truck?" the man went on. "Can it forage for its own fuel? Can it go where a camel goes? Can it repair its own wounds? Can it sire more trucks? Machines are no good here in the Emptiness!

Beauty and brains, pleasure and usability - they should go hand in hand.

Model utility depends not on whether its driving scenarios are realistic (since no one can know that for sure), but on whether it responds with a realistic pattern of behavior.

Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three - and paradise is when you have none.

Economic theory would tell you that a rational person would take the thirty dollars every time. Forget the other party, the decision was simple. You get thirty dollars or you get nothing. With this logic you would take any positive amount.

Delaware Aqueduct, had been completed in 1945, and ran

Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful.

The best you can hope for in this life is that your delusions are benign and your compulsions have utility.

Music is essentially useless, as life is; but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.

Beauty is assailed from two directions - by the cult of ugliness in the arts, and by the cult of utility in everyday life.

In January 2012, the China Investment Corporation bought a 8.68 percent investment in Thames Water, the largest water utility in England, serving parts of the Greater London area, Thames Valley, and Surrey. In November of that year

James Davis Nicoll, on the 1962 nominees: "Terry Pratchett has his own sword forged by his own hands from meteoric iron, which must be of considerable utility when negotiating contracts.

Everything in the Shaker community was built for service. Nothing was put there without a purpose, and there was no wasted frills. Nothing was built or done just because it was pleasing to the eye.