Quotes About Utility

For us, it matters that people use our products. We really want to enrich people's lives, and you can't enrich somebody's life if the product is in the drawer.

I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It's irrational.

Normally, I can get through a whole show with one guitar pick.

I'll be the first one to tell you I burn coal... That fossil generation and the nuclear generation, frankly, is necessary in order for me to provide power.

There are marvelous utilities, infinite good and unspeakable beauties in the great cosmic intelligence, the unseen world, ready for our use and enjoyment. If we only had sufficient faith to believe they were there we could draw them to ourselves.

We're all tools in somebody's kit. But that doesn't mean we can't make tools out o other people. Or figure our interesting things to use ourselves for.

La felicidad puede depender tan fácilmente de las cosas útiles como de las inútiles.

We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it

A goodlookin horse is like a goodlookin woman, he said. They're always more trouble than what they're worth. What a man needs is just one that will get the job done.

What's that sticky stuff called? Basta: Duct tape. Yes, duct tape. I love duct tape.

We spoke about furniture in theory for eight years," recalled Powell. "We spent a lot of time asking ourselves, 'What is the purpose of a sofa?'

a cette incroyable capacité à inventer des gadgets dont on n'a pas besoin et sans lesquels, brusquement, on ne peut plus vivre.

He said that a men's work cloths are the only real cloths he has.

But then it dawned on me that the opinion of someone who is always wrong has its own special utility to decision-makers.

say, a 2:1 ratio than it is to have far greater coverage provided by a single utility. A catastrophic event can render a single utility insolvent—witness what

Shape clay into a vessel; it is the space within that makes it useful.

The automobile is technologically more sophisticated than the bundling board, but the human motives in their uses are sometimes the same.

Why did the chicken cross the road? Because it maximized his utility.

Did you even use anything at all in that bag of yours?" "No, but I might use some of it later." And I almost certainly would, once I got rid of this crybaby and picked up my drag queen.

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered, — every one of the two hundred thousand probably yet to be of utility in the arts. As Bacchus of the vine, Ceres of the wheat, as Arkwright and Whitney were the demi-gods of cotton, so prolific Time will yet bring an inventor to every plant. There is not a property in nature but a mind is born to seek and find it... every application being equivalent to a new material.

Keep a thing seven years and it's bound to come in handy.

To remove this obstacle I repeat or refer to such knowledge as has come under my notice, my own previously expressed views, and also describe and exhibit my last experiments and explain their novelty and utility.

A house is a machine for living in.

The house is a machine for living in.