Quotes About Utility

When exceptional utility is combined with strategic pricing, imitation is discouraged.

If companies give in to the tempting route of either bumping up the strategic price or cutting back on utility, they are not on the path to lucrative blue waters.

What trends have a high probability of impacting your industry, are irreversible, and are evolving in a clear trajectory? How will these trends impact your industry? Given this, how can you open up unprecedented customer utility?

The greatest blocks to utility often represent the greatest and most pressing opportunities to unlock exceptional value.

Everything had its purpose. If you waited long enough, a useless thing would become useful again.

Young? Yes. He probably had wrenches older than she was.

False is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousand real advantages for one imaginary or trifling inconvenience; that would take fire from men because it burns, and water because one may drown in it; that has no remedy for evils except destruction.

Blunt tools are are sometimes found of use, where sharper instruments would fail.

To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matter, to a privileged social class? Design addresses itself to the need.

Who is to say that pleasure is useless?

One man"s tool is another man's weapon. - Bruce Wayne

Animals have two functions in today's society, to be delicious and to fit well.

The value and utility of any experiment are determined by the fitness of the material to the purpose for which it is used, and thus in the case before us it cannot be immaterial what plants are subjected to experiment and in what manner such experiment is conducted.

logarithmic tables as cheap as potatoes"—

For as long as anyone can remember, reliable, cheap electricity has been taken for granted in the United States.

The goodness of a thing created is the perfection of its fitness for the use which it serves. Now that use is either particular or universal.

One piece of advice: unless you're an electrician, do not wear your mobile on your belt.

Men subsequently put whatever is newly learned or experienced to use as a plowshare, perhaps even as a weapon: but women immediately include it among their ornaments.

Jefferson would remain devoted to Epicurean thought for the remainder of his life. He summarized that belief system thusly: Happiness the aim of life. Virtue the foundation of happiness Utility the test of virtue . . . Virtue consists in Prudence Temperance Fortitude Justice90

Happiness the aim of life. Virtue the foundation of happiness Utility the test of virtue . . . Virtue consists in Prudence Temperance Fortitude Justice90

Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people.

But the toaster was quite satisfied with itself, thank you. Though it knew from magazines that there were toasters who could toast four slices at a time, it didn't think that the master, who lived alone and seemed to have few friends, would have wanted a toaster of such institutional proportions. With toast, it's quality that matters, not quantity.

The walking-stick serves the purpose of an advertisement that the bearer's hands are employed otherwise than in useful effort, and it therefore has utility as an evidence of leisure. But it is also a weapon and it meets a felt need of barbarian man on that ground.

Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.