Quotes About Utility

I always carry multipurpose products in my handbag.

Making a poem is like making a chair; a poem is as real as a chair and sometimes more useful.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

The core premise of economic theory is that people choose by optimizing.

A weapon—any weapon—is a tool, she told us. Cradled in her arms was a Sunjet particle gun. Designed for a specific purpose, just as any tool is, and only useful in that purpose. You would think a man a fool to carry a force hammer with him everywhere simply because he is an engineer

The utility of a thing makes it a use value.[14] But this utility is not a thing of air. Being limited by the physical properties of the commodity, it has no existence apart from that commodity. A commodity, such as iron, corn, or a diamond, is therefore, so far as it is a material thing, a use value, something useful. This property of a commodity is independent of the amount of labour required to appropriate its useful qualities.

In a future society, in which class antagonism will have ceased, in which there will no longer be any classes, use will no longer be determined by the minimum time of production; but the time of social production devoted to different articles will be determined by the degree of their social utility.

The tools which would teach men their own use would be beyond price.

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

The calculus of utility aims at supplying the ordinary wants of man at the least cost of labour.

Some men are like a clock on the roof; they are useful only to the neighbors.

Men are just like unlit lamps: in themselves they are no good for anything, but, when lit, they can be handy to have around the house.

All men know the utility of useful things; but they do not know the utility of futility.

Come to think of it, just about every tool was shaped like either a weenie or a pistol, depending on your point of view.

Moral sensibilities are nowadays at such cross-purposes that to one man a morality is proved by its utility, while to another its utility refutes it.

The thickness of the walls should be sufficient for two armed men to pass each other with ease.

I'm always just carrying a Tupperware cup, ever since my mom went to a Tupperware party and got 'em. I've left them strewn all over the U.S. and Europe. I drink iced tea out of them.

Money is neither a material to work upon nor a tool to work with.

All the world over, the picturesque yields to the pocketesque.

Money is worth what it will help you to produce or buy and no more.

Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.

Bernoulli's real contribution was to coin a word. The word has been translated into English as "utility". It describes this subjective value people place on money.

Money is a machine for doing quickly and commodiously what would be done, though less quickly and commodiously, without it.

Mother cow is as useful dead as when she is alive.