Quotes About Utility

There's no point having something worn on your body - that's a big ask - unless you can give people something they really couldn't get otherwise. It has to be qualitatively better for it to be worn.

I'm a type of player that tries to do everything a lot to help our team. Setting screens to get guys open, trying to block shots.

I gotta get a truck.

I like a truck because it's big like I am, and I think I'll have a lot of fun working with it.

Sometimes people are looking for, 'What's the next Tesla car? What's this really cool, super-specific thing that people are going to want?' But I try to be just like a Ford truck. They sell a lot more Ford trucks than they do Tesla cars.

If you are a man, I feel that practicality should always trump fashion.

Form must never trump function. Some objects are made to look so smooth, you don't know where to pick them up or how to turn them on. If I'm designing a garlic press or cheese grater, I need my hand to fit comfortably on it. I like to know, instinctively, how to use it.

I can play in six different positions where managers can trust me. It must give them food for thought knowing I can do a job in different positions.

People don't want gadgets, they want services.

Every day in America, about 25,000 people buy a quarter-inch drill. But nobody in America wants a quarter-inch drill. What they want are holes.

I cannot see myself in a new car. I am a tiny white van person. That is what i want!

I'm trying just to do good clothes, clothes that you need as much as you want.

I had always felt that mittens were a few steps back on the evolutionary scale-- why, I wondered, would we want to make ourselves into a less agile version of lobster.

Because economics is all about optimising, doing the best you can with what you have - it's usually the first place you should look for answers if you want to maximise your happiness.

Counting lines is probably a good idea if you want to print it out and are short on paper, but I fail to see the purpose otherwise.

Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works. The design of the Mac wasn't what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked.

Why pay a dollar for a bookmark? Why not use the dollar for a bookmark?

The distinction between mathematics and science is pretty well settled. It remains mysterious to us why mathematics that is invented for reasons having nothing to do with nature often turns out to be useful in physical theories. In a famous article,8 the physicist Eugene Wigner has written of "the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics.

Shin: a device for finding furniture in the dark.

I justified these pants every weekend with the reinforcing thought that one can never have enough extra pockets, just in case.

Before solar, before Sunrun, if consumers wanted electricity, there was a monopoly of someone who told you how much it costs.

The designer must understand that form does not follow function nor does form follow a production process. For every use and for every production process there are innumerable equally attractive solutions.

Beds ain't for sleeping, and clothes ain't for bed.

A deckhand, a haircutter, and a cook. Really useful out here.