Quotes About Utility

Function is fundamental to design, of course. If something doesn't work, it's a bad product, and I certainly get frustrated by things that aren't functional. But there has to be more than function. A house has to function, but if that's all it does, you don't love it.

In the perfect society, there is neither emotion nor mercy; precious space cannot be wasted on those who have outlived their usefulness.

Actually, in my advanced, high-falutin' frontier economics, I often work with what I define as 'money metric utility,' and I ask people, 'Do you really want that? What are you willing to pay for that?'

The products people like best start with function and wind up with look.

If you had a really good - battery, it wouldn't matter that the sun goes down at night and the wind stops blowing sometimes. But at the moment, battery technology is nowhere near good enough to use at utility scale.

You're gonna find a common theme among my favorite beauty products: I don't like those little sheer things. If I'm putting makeup on, I want it to do the job quickly.

She grabbed a roll of duct tape out of the store. Maggie loved duct tape—it cured almost everything shy of an aneurysm. She'd even seen a maintenance guy slapping it along the leading edge of the wing of a 757 once!

Não há mal que não traga um pouco de bem, e por isso é que o mal é útil, muita vez indispensável, alguma vez delicioso

Why are man hole covers around? If you don't knwo the answer to the questions, you're not smart enough to work at microsoft

The Band-Aid is an inexpensive, convenient, and remarkably versatile solution to an astonishing array of problems.

Why do I drive a pickup truck? What am I supposed to haul my dogs around in, a Rolls-Royce?

Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.

Ce qui est utile à la littérature l'est souvent peu à la vie.

Cuando la creencia no controla tus decisiones más importantes, no es creencia en la realidad subyacente, sino en la utilidad de cree

Useless people are not improved by giving them the impression they are useful.

They say everything in the world is good for something.

The sure way of knowing nothing about life is to try to make oneself 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.

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

The ultimate explanation is why we have two hands and ten fingers to start with, and why are we prone with them to do thus and so and not something else.

The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.

The man is an asshole." "You might say that, but you'd be maligning a part of the body that is of unquestioned utility. I prefer to think of Lugala as a tumor.

I try to catch every sentence, every word you and I say, and quickly lock all these sentences and words away in my literary storehouse because they might come in handy.

Every political society forms, it is plain, a sort of community or partnership, instituted for the benefit of the partners. Utility is the end and aim of every such institution; and the greatest and most extensive utility is the aim of that great association, comprehending all the rest, and known by the name of a commonwealth.