Quotes About Utility

With small spaces in particular you have to really follow the rule that if it's not absolutely beautiful or absolutely functional, then get rid of it.

Academics are only useful when they try to be useless (say, as in mathematics and philosophy) and dangerous when they try to be useful.

They love precision at the expense of applicability.

This reasoning shows that sophistication can, at some level, cause degradation, what economists call "negative utility.

they were of no use to anyone outside IBM.

A knife can be a weapon, but it can also be a surgical instrument.

I'll use the knives for spreading jam, and the gas to warm my greying love.

We are, after all, homo economicus .

Fire, knives, automobiles, hair removal cream. Each of these things serves an important purpose. Each one makes our lives better. And each one can cause some serious problems when abused. Now you can add statistics to that list.

economy is the art of making the most of life." Economics is the study of how we do that.

I think as someone who collects beautiful things from the past, the thing that I miss the most about modernism and the things I lament about the past are everyday things that you would use were made more beautifully.

The most important thing is always to feel comfortable - I would never sacrifice function for style.

A hammer looks like a useful tool to a carpenter; the nail has a different impression altogether.

Some time around 1932, Adolf Loos, the noted Viennese architect, said, "There is a great difference between an urn and a chamber pot, and in this difference there is leeway for culture.

Sergeant Louis Loiselle was the nearest. Short and dark-haired, he was a former member of French parachute forces and had been detailed to DGSE some years before. Loiselle was vanilla, a utility infielder, good in everything but a nonspecialist specialist—like all of the men, a weapons expert, and, his file said, a brilliant marksman with pistol and rifle. He had an easy, relaxed smile with a good deal of confidence behind it.

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The Utah Power & Light Company, meanwhile, cut right to the chase in a full-page ad with the alarmist headline "How many 'Independence Days' have we left?" The utility company implored readers to "pray for help in maintaining man's closeness to God, in preserving man's God-given rights and responsibilities against those who would make you dependent upon a socialistic, all-powerful government." 53

Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....

You can keep a dog; but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals.

Even the 'right to live'...extends no further than the right to protection against murder. Charity certainly will, morality possibly may, and public utility perhaps ought to add to this protection supererogatory provision for continuance of life; but it is questionable whether strict justice demands it.

Sanity is madness put to good uses.

Man is a tool-using animal.

An Italian philosopher said that "time was his estate"; an estate indeed which will produce nothing without cultivation, but will always abundantly repay the labors of industry, and generally satisfy the most extensive desires, if no part of it be suffered to lie in waste by negligence, to be overrun with noxious plants, or laid out for show rather than for use.

Keep a thing seven years and you will find a use for it.