Quotes About Utility

Ideology is essentially a matter of meaning; but the condition of advanced capitalism, some would suggest, is one of pervasive non-meaning. The sway of utility and technology bleach social life of significance, subordinating use-value to the empty formalism of exchange-value.

Why shouldn't a car key look like a car?

I cut the labels out of my clothes because they scratch. Clothes are just little workhorses, aren't they?

Huh." "Huh what?" "Would you look at this?" he asked, examining a small box. "It says it glows in the dark." "So?" "So, what use is that to anybody? I mean, what am I supposed to do? Write her name in the air with it?

Perfection does not take into account the viewer.' Pheidias had once said to me. 'It exists on it own, independent of and unconcerned with opinions or utility.

For what other reason would you have me save you? Because I like you? Better to be useful than liked.

Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.

Nothing can have value without being an object of utility. If it be useless, the labor contained in it is useless, cannot be reckoned as labor, and cannot therefore create value.

Jellyfish] are 97% water or something, so how much are they doing? Just give them another 3% and make them water. It's more useful.

Men were good for one thing only. Killing spiders.

Though claiming to be value-free, conventional economic theory cannot escape the fact that value is embedded at its heart: it is wrapped up with the idea of utility, which is defined as a person's satisfaction or happiness gained from consuming a particular bundle of goods.

Jevons drew up 'calculating man', whose fixation on maximising his utility had him constantly weighing up the consumption satisfaction that he might derive from every possible combination of his options.7 With this move, Jevons placed utility at the heart of economic theory —a spot it occupies to this day—and from it he derived the law of diminishing returns: the more of a thing that you consume (be it bananas or shampoo), the less you will desire still more of it.

One only needs two tools in life WD-40 to make things go, and duct tape to make them stop.

We have concluded that the trivial mathematics is, on the whole, useful, and that the real mathematics, on the whole, is not.

Matemati?in çok küçük bölümü pratik yarar sa?lar; o küçük bölüm de oldukça s?k?c?d?r.

Hoarding appeared to result, at least in part, from deficits in processing information. Making decisions about whether to keep and how to organize objects requires categorization skills, confidence in one's ability to remember, and sustained attention. To maintain order, one also needs the ability to efficiently assess the value or utility of an object.

But this narrative of prophecy would eventually be subverted by the enemies of Elohim, who transformed it into an entire substitute system of astral worship where stars were considered as controlling powers over the lives of men. Though there was no actual power in the stars, it served the purpose of the gods to divert mankind's attention from the true God of history into a god of one's own utility.

Did you ever notice that all machines are made for some reason?' He asked Isabelle. 'They are built to make to make you laugh, like the mouse here, or to tell the time, like clocks, or to fill you with wonder, like the automaton. Maybe that's why a broken machine always makes me a little sad, because it isn't able to do what it was meant to do.

First is the sheer joy of making things. Second is the pleasure of making things that are useful to other people. Deep within, we want others to use our work and to find it helpful.

The usefulness of a cup is its emptiness.

Frisbees are like towels - you should never leave home without one.

There's your law of precedents; there's your utility of traditions; there's the story of your obstinate survival of old beliefs never bottomed on the earth, and now not even hovering in the air! There's orthodoxy!

Of all of them, I'd choose the Walther PPK 7.65 mm. It only came fourth after the Japanese M-14, the Russian Tokarev and the Sauer M-38. But I like its light trigger pull and the extension spur of the magazine gives a grip that should suit 007. It's a real stopping gun. Of course it's about a .32 calibre as compared with the Beretta's .25, but I wouldn't recommend anything lighter. And you can get ammunition for the Walther anywhere in the world.

My prejudice was that any machine that could not tell you by its very functioning how it should be used was not worth its keep.