Quotes About Utility

My view of social media is that it is a set of tools, not a religion.

With something like Dropbox, it was immediately like, 'Wow, this is literally something that anyone with an Internet connection could use.' Everyone needs something like this; they just don't realize it yet.

Frank Lloyd Wright... his things were beautiful but not very functional.

Pl?cerea va trebui jerfit? folosului.

Good design to me is both appearance and functionality together. It's the experience that makes it good design.

A purely materialistic art would be like a tree which is expected to bear fruit without flowering and to sacrifice grace and beauty for mere utility

A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.

Underestimation has its uses.

What's that sticky stuff called? Basta: Duct tape. Yes, duct tape. I love duct tape.

We love good looks rather than what is practical, Though good looks may prove destructive.

The now familiar shovel

An industrial company's finances are not conservative unless the common stock (at book value) represents at least half of the total capitalization, including all bank debt.3 For a railroad or public utility the figure should be at least 30%.

If he spent his money, say, in giving parties for his friends, they (we may hope) would get pleasure, and so would all those upon whom he spent money, such as the butcher, the baker, and the bootlegger. But if he spends it (let us say) upon laying down rails for surface cars in some place where surface cars turn out to be not wanted, he has diverted a mass of labor into channels where it gives pleasure to no one.

A tutto ciò vanno aggiunte, in quanto contribuiscono alla felicitá dell'uomo di scienza, la bellezza delle più splendide conquiste, e la coscienza di un'utilità inestimabile per la razza umana. Una vita dedicata alla scienza è dunque una vita felice, e la sua felicità deriva dalle migliori possibilitá che si aprono dinnanzi agli abitanti di questo inquieto e impressionante pianeta

I'm the opposite of a gearhead. I like simplicity. I use what works, and the only time I change it is when I have to.

The fashion game is fun for architects to play and diverting for the public to watch, but it's deadly for building users. When the height of fashion moves on, they're the ones left behind, stuck in a building that was designed to look good rather than work well, and now it doesn't even look good.

As it is, we could not call mine a beautiful puss, but it does the job well enough, distinguishing the front of my head from the back.

El valiente puede luchar, el cuidadoso puede hacer de centinela, y el inteligente puede estudiar, analizar y comunicar. Cada cuál es útil.

el arte es útil, medicinalmente útil, en cuanto suscita y purga emociones peligrosas.

Whoever heard of cats doing anything useful!" "Except for staring at one in a supercilious manner," said Strange. "That has a sort of moral usefulness, I suppose, in making one feel uncomfortable and encouraging sober reflection upon one's imperfections.

A book ... unlike a television program, moving picture or any other 'modern means of communication' ... can wait for years, yet be available at any moment when it happens to be needed.

than many that are of no perceptible use whatever.

come in handy. Everything

clever people will judge the truth according to its usefulness, not validity.