Quotes About Utility

We so willingly slip the collar of command upon any pretence whatever, and are so ready to usurp upon dominion, every one does so naturally aspire to liberty and power, that no utility derived from the wit or valour of those he employs ought to be so dear to a superior as a downright and sincere obedience. TO obey more upon the account of understanding than of subjection, is to corrupt the office of command.

What is the sense of knowing things that are useless?

He would have said Stephen was a sort of human tire iron;

Whatever use double maths has in life is beyond me.

He viewed his own mentality as grotesque but useful, like a chair made of antlers. There was nothing he could do about it.

Speaking one day to Monsieur de Buffon , on the present ardor of chemical inquiry, he affected to consider chemistry but as cookery, and to place the toils of the laboratory on the footing with those of the kitchen. I think it, on the contrary, among the most useful of sciences, and big with future discoveries for the utility and safety of the human race.

A little attention however to the nature of the human mind evinces that the entertainments of fiction are useful as well as pleasant. That they are pleasant when well written, every person feels who reads. But wherein is its utility, asks the reverend sage, big with the notion that nothing can be useful but the learned lumber of Greek and Roman reading with which his head is stored? I answer, every thing is useful which contributes to fix us in the principles and practice of virtue.

Confucious and the Madman (excerpt) The cinnamon tree is edible: so it is cut down! The lacquer tree is profitable: they maim it. Every man knows how useful it is to be useful. No one seems to know How useful it is to be useless.

Varieties of hypocrite, see. Like learning the different kinds of poison plants out here, some'll kill the stock, some'll kill you, but use em right and some, believe it or not, will cure you instead. Nothing vegetable or human that ain't of some use.

a name, like javax.swing (a package that holds some of the Swing GUI classes you'll learn about soon). ArrayList is in the package called java.util, which surprise surprise, holds a pile of utility classes. You'll learn a lot more about packages in Chapter 17, including how to put your own classes into your own packages. For now though, we're just looking to use

What makes general-purpose computing powerful is that you don't need separate devices for separate uses, not that it allows you to do multiple things at the same time. The

in 90 percent of your daily life, the presence of a cell phone either doesn't matter or makes things only slightly more convenient. They're useful, but it's hyperbolic to believe its ubiquitous presence is vital.

It's instead quite natural once you recognize that the power of a general-purpose computer is in the total number of things it enables the user to do, not the total number of things it enables the user to do simultaneously.

Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful.

The greatest and perhaps only utility of all philosophy of pure reason is thus only negative, namely that it does not serve for expansion, as an organon, but rather, as a discipline, serves for the determination of boundaries, and instead of discovering truth it has only the silent merit of guarding against errors

A happy wall is a long-lived wall, a practical wall, a useful wall.

If you aren't rich, you should always look useful.

Form ever follows function.

Art has no other object than to set aside the symbols of practical utility, the generalities that are conventionally and socially accepted, everything in fact which masks reality from us, in order to set us face to face with reality itself.

Dictionaries are like watches. The worst is better than none at all and even the best cannot be expected to run quite true.

Utilities get out of the way. Can you imagine if you flipped a light switch and had to watch an ad before you got electricity? Can you imagine if you turned on a faucet and had to watch an ad before the water came out?

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

I'm embarrassed if I think anyone knows exactly what I paid for something, or even where I got it. I want what I'm wearing to feel good on, wear well, and to be extremely functional.

Information wants to be useful.