Quotes About Utility

A house is a machine for living in. Baths, sun, hot-water, cold-water, warmth at will, conservation of food, hygiene, beauty in the sense of good proportion. An armchair is a machine for sitting in and so on. Our

It's not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.. the kind of detail that turns an ordinary product into an artifact

Like an envelope, a hollow figurine, and a coffin, a refrigerator can hold all sorts of things, and they may turn out to be very important depending on what kind of day you are having.

Selection is the very keel on which our mental ship is built. And in this case of memory its utility is obvious. If we remembered everything, we should on most occasions be as ill off as if we remembered nothing.

It exactly answers my idea of a fine country, because it unites beauty with utility

Design isn't just about making things beautiful; it's also about making things work beautifully.

The system doesn't have to be pure, but it does have to work.

A good laundry room with storage can make life easier.

The good thing about SUVs is they have storage.

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I do change the odd lightbulb, and I fix the Internet when it goes down, because it's something I am really good at.

Nuclear is an important part of the heritage of Duke. We operate the largest regulated nuclear fleet in the U.S. We love the diversity of the generation.

I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.

nothing is really beautiful unless it is useless; everything useful is ugly for it expresses a need

The only beautiful things, as somebody once said, are the things that do not concern us. As long as a thing is useful or necessary to us...it is outside the proper sphere of art.

The proprietor of the grocery store on the corner was bidding a silent farewell to a tomato which even he, though a dauntless optimist, had been compelled to recognize as having outlived its utility.

But I am tremendously interested in what religion does for me, just as I am interested in what electricity and good food and water do for me.

secrets should never be opened without evident utility. It could be of no manner of use to me or her to communicate

There are two principles of established acceptance in morals; first, that self-interest is the mainspring of all of our actions, and secondly, that utility is the test of their value.

Knowledge is power, not mere argument or ornament; it is not an opinion to be held... but a work to be done; and I... am laboring to lay the foundation not of any sect or doctrine, but of utility and power.

You can always sell tools," Skinner had mused, perhaps to Yamazaki, perhaps to himself. "Somebody'll always buy 'em. But then you always need 'em again, exactly the one you sold.

As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.

Every way of classifying a thing is but a way of handling it for some particular purpose.

Well, sometimes," Dane said, "Just because someone uses something wrong doesn't mean it's useless.