Quotes About Utility

Everything keeps its best nature only by being put to its best use.

It is a great misfortune to be of use to nobody; scarcely less to be of use to everybody.

The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider's web.

Maybe what you found is being used for another reason?" Z stopped. "Oh, yeah. Right. Because those things are multifunctional. Like Q-tips or some shit. Look, would you talk to her?

Fantasies were not what she needed right now. What she needed was… A real bathroom with running water.

I think a beautiful product that doesn't work very well is ugly.

Having only wisdom and talent is the lowest tier of usefulness.

A wise man's goal shouldn't be to say something profound, but to say something useful.

Therefore the highest utility for mankind is to find this happiness in the Spirit.

When you try on something, you have to ask yourself, 'How many ways could I wear this? Could I wear it to work? To dinner or drinks? Will it span the seasons' If you have to think too hard about those questions, then skip it.

Spare functional furniture, in my opinion, is the genius of 20th-century design.

Woman is born free and lives equal to man in her rights. Social distinctions can be based only on the common utility.

Useful men, who do useful things, don't mind being treated as useless. But the useless always judge themselves as being important and hide all their incompetence behind authority.

All men know the use of the useful, but nobody knows the use of the useless. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so that I can have a word with him?

When it is useful to them, men can believe a theory of which they know nothing more than its name.

We ought to define a man's income as the maximum value which he can consume during a week, and still expect to be as well off at the end of the week as he was at the beginning.

Central heating, French rubber goods and cookbooks are three amazing proofs of man's ingenuity in transforming necessity into art, and, of these, cookbooks are perhaps most lastingly delightful.

Passing through the utility section she considered getting herself a cup of coffee. Then she felt shock and shame over the fact that she was thinking about coffee while her planet was being set on fire. Then she poured herself a cup of coffee anyway and stepped into the Farm.

He keeps an axe in his attic." "Everyone does

As the saying goes, when you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

GUIs tend to impose a large overhead on every single piece of software, even the smallest, and this overhead completely changes the programming environment. Small utility programs are no longer worth writing. Their functions, instead, tend to get swallowed up into omnibus software packages.

Passing through the utility section she considered getting herself a cup of coffee. Then she felt shock and shame over the fact that she was thinking about coffee while her planet was being set on fire.

Gropius characterized what was essential: "An object…must fulfill its function usefully, be durable, economical, and 'beautiful.

The panoply of consumers has iPhones or the lower-priced clones not because of what they represent but because of what they do.