Quotes About Utility

A beautiful product that doesn't work very well is ugly.

In economic terms, we've always thought of work as a disutility - as something you do to get something else. Now it's increasingly a utility - something that's valuable and worthy in its own right.

I always carry a pocketknife in my pocket for opening boxes, cutting a string, or whatever little thing comes up.

Most importantly, I strive for function above all in every house.

Gadgets - our houses are filled with them: ones we need, ones we think we need, and others that were a good idea at the time, but have never made it out of their boxes.

Man is a deeply illogical being, and must be ruled illogically. Whatever that frigid prig Bentham may say, there are innumerable motives that have nothing to do with utility.

Your fingers want to be strong. They weren't designed to tap at a keyboard or text bulls*** on a stupid cell phone. They were meant to be dangerous weapons on the hands of a caveman!

If one does not understand the usefulness of the useless and the uselessness of the useful, one cannot understand art.

The usefulness of the cup is its emptiness.

An arts degree is like a diploma in origami. And about as much use.

One of the first obligations of art is to make all useful things beautiful.

If it has a use it isn't art.

Beauty is as useful as the useful. More so, perhaps. (Le beau est aussi utile que l'utile. Plus peut-etre.)

Hand and I needed pants, pants to end all pants—warm and cool, breathing and trapping in, full of pockets.

You may hang your walls with tapestry instead of whitewash or paper; or you may cover them with mosaic; or have them frescoed by a great painter: all this is not luxury, if it be done for beauty's sake, and not for show: it does not break our golden rule: Have nothing in your houses which you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful

Niente può essere un'opera artistica se non è anche utile, vale a dire se non assiste un corpo saldamente controllato dalla mente, o se non diverte, ristora ed eleva una mente in buona salute.

Toilet paper too thin, newspapers too fat!

Nothing was wasted that could contribute to the process of waste. The last dying kick was brought into military utility.

We were inclined to believe that the nose was not for the snuff box but the snuff box for the nose.

Una campaña de publicidad: ¿había acaso trabajo más útil y más fútil, más ligero y pesado, más hábil y pendejo, todo en un mismo producto?

Être fort pour être utile," Hébert declared. "Be fit to be useful.

A wandering carpenter, called Stone, saw on his travels a gigantic old oak tree standing in a field near an earth-altar. The carpenter said to his apprentice, who was admiring the oak: "This is a useless tree. If you wanted to make a ship, it would soon rot; if you wanted to make tools, they would break. You can't do anything useful with this tree, and that's why it has become so old.

People don't want to buy a quarter-inch drill. They want a quarter-inch hole.

No. I am not sad. I am not allowed to be. I am too useful to be sad.