Quotes About Utility

If a message can't be used to make predictions or decisions, it is without value, no matter how accurate or comprehensive it is.

you are only as interesting as you are useful to someone

That you are only as interesting as you are useful to someone.

Useful professions are clearly meant for the public, but those whose utility is more dubious can only justify their existence by assuming that the public is meant for them.

[G]eometry is not true, it is advantageous.

A belief is not true because it is useful.

Necessary policemen, firemen, street cleaners, health officers, judges, legislators and executives perform productive services as important as those of anyone in private industry. They make it possible for private industry to function in an atmosphere of law, order, freedom and peace. But their justification consists in the utility of their services. It does not consist in the "purchasing power" they possess by virtue of being on the public payroll.

S]ongs must be measured by their utility. Any jaunty little tune that can get you from one point to another as you drive, or get you through the dishes, or that can illuminate or dignify your courting, I always appreciate. -interview, 1995

If one asks why early man took so long to improve his technical skills and his material facilities, the answer must be: he concentrated upon the greatest of all utilities first. By his command of words he increasingly embraced every aspect of life and gave it significance as part of a larger whole he retained in his mind. Only within that whole could technics itself have significance. The pursuit of significance crowns every other human achievement.

If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?

There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.

Furniture is meant to be used and enjoyed.

I never have more than one bag at a time. I think one is already quite enough. Also, I hate changing bags, so I never have the thing of having ten bags. Any bag that's with me will take the same course as I will. It will take the same airplanes and will be squashed in the same way and will be used as a cushion in the airports.

Drones can be useful tools, and I am all about useful tools. One of my mottos is 'the right tool for the right job.'

The basic function of popular music is to create an environment for courting, lovemaking, and doing the dishes. It's useful because it addresses the heart in the midst of all these activities, and it will always be useful in this very important way.

He gains everyone's approval who mixes the pleasant with the useful.

If a commodity were in no way useful, - in other words, if it could in no way contribute to our gratification, - it would be destitute of exchangeable value, however scarce it might be, or whatever quantity of labour might be necessary to procure it.

It's a practical matter. If you're useful to others, you'll be hired.

In the old days when people invented a new function they had something useful in mind.

Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.

The world forgets about people who are not useful.

I am a maker of useful things.

The beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to itself.

I'm not really interested in creating things to be seen inside a private gallery. I'm interested in creating things that are all around us, that engage us. I just find the things that I respond to are useful.