Quotes About Utility

if her hands were full and she was wearing pants with no pockets.

This was not the way of longest friend. Everything meant something to her. Everything was of use to her. Or to be made of use. To be stored away for utility at some future opportunistic date.

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

The true basis of morality is utility; that is, the adaptation of our actions to the promotion of the general welfare and happiness; the endeavour so to rule our lives that we may serve and bless mankind.

The X server has to be the biggest program I've ever seen that doesn't do anything for you.

the cracked plate has to be retained in the pantry, has to be kept in service as a household necessity. It can never be warmed on the stove nor shuffled with the other plates in the dishpan; it will not be brought out for company but it will do to hold crackers late at night or to go into the ice-box with the left overs.

Is it life?' he answered.'I would rather be without it' he said, ' for there is a queer small utility in it. You cannot eat it or drink it or smoke it in your pipe, [...] It is a great mistake and a thing better done without, like red-bars and foreign bacon.

I'm a big fan of teatowels and am always on the lookout for a good one.

I don't like fancy fiddly girlie stuff.

It is important for Oncor to remain financially strong.

I rank myself no higher in the scheme of things than a policeman - whose utility would disappear if there were no criminals.

The real questions are: Does it solve a problem? Is it serviceable? How is it going to look in ten years?

The idea that one might use art for 'instrumental' reasons tends to set off alarm bells at the heart of the cultural elite, who contend that it's not a pill, that it shouldn't be asked to perform some specific function, especially something as egocentric as to 'cheer you up' or to 'make you a more empathetic person.'

In terms of pots and pans, I just use the basics - I'm not a snob like that.

Pocketknives are kind of drifting out of our cultural consciousness, which I think is a terrible thing.

The point is that I don't design stuff for myself. I'm a toolmaker. I design things that other people want to use.

Maximising the average utility allows a person to kill everyone else if that would make him ecstatic, and so happier than average.

I would think twice about designing stuff for which there was no need and which didn't endure.

the brain's business is not to give us an accurate or objective view of the world, but to give us a useful view - one we can act on

Swiss Army watch seemed

I'd rather stay here, thank you." "Well, you can't, there isn't room. Go and make yourself useful, since you are too big to be ornamental.

have nothing in your house that you don't know to be useful nor think to be beautiful.

Every time he studied this instrument, with its slender, gleaming steel rod that tapered down to such needle-like sharpness, he wondered why it was necessary to have things like this in the world. If it were truly only for chopping ice, you'd think a completely different design might do. The people who produce and sell things like this don't understand, he thought. They don't realize that some of us break out in a cold sweat at just a glimpse of that shiny, pointed tip.

The old Mauser was too long, too big, and too heavy for a child. A child's small arm could not reach freely for the trigger, and he had difficulty taking aim. Modern design has solved these problems, eliminated the inconveniences. The dimensions of weapons are now perfectly suited to a boy's physique, so much so that in the hands of tall, massive men, the new guns appear somewhat comical and childish.