Quotes About Utility

If there is no case to take care of, then you will take care to create a case to take care of. Otherwise your system becomes useless.

Utility is the true criterion of beauty.

I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.

Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.

That's what you get for ignoring the beauty of Tupperware.

Flowers are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out values all the utilities of the world. If dandelions were hard to grow, they would be most welcome on any lawn.

It is the peculiar beauty of this method, gentlemen, and one which endears it to the really scientific mind, that under no circumstance can it be of the smallest possible utility.

The aesthetic serviceability of objects of beauty is not greatly nor universally heightened by possession.

Only the rational and useful is beautiful.

Real wealth consists in things of utility and beauty, in things that help to create strong, beautiful bodies and surroundings inspiring to live in.

Some are created for beauty, and some for use; and there are some which one can do without altogether.

Happy 60th Birthday, good buddy. How are you dealing with your awful debility, lessened utility and loss of mobility?

Obviously the horse can still do things that the gas car can never do, and the gas car will always be able to do things the electric car can't do. But they have really different uses and advantages.

There is no such thing as a "good man." Good for what? is the question.

The] utility resulting from any small increase in wealth will be inversely proportionate to the quantity of goods previously possessed.

The real question here is what happens to you, Gunther. In many ways you're a useful fellow to have around. Like a bent coat hanger in a toolbox, you're not something that was ever designed for a specific job, but you do manage to come in useful sometimes.

The intentions of a tool are what it does. A hammer intends to strike, a vise intends to hold fast, a lever intends to lift. They are what it is made for. But sometimes a tool may have other uses that you don't know. Sometimes in doing what you intend, you also do what the knife intends, without knowing.

The intentions of a tool are what it does. A hammer intends to strike, a vise intends to hold fast, a lever intends to lift. They are what it is made for. But sometimes a tool may have other uses that you don't know. Sometimes in doing what you intend, you also do what the knife intends, without knowing. Can you see the sharpest edge of that knife?

Status, prestige, authority, degree, licence, credential, badge of office, reputation, manners — all of these marks of social approval mean nothing to the NTs when the issue is the utility of goal-directed action.

I had always felt that mittens were a few steps back on the evolutionary scale-- why, I wondered, would we want to make ourselves into a less agile version of lobster.

I love things made out of animals. It's just so funny to think of someone saying, I need a letter opener. I guess I'll have to kill a deer.

Turns out, utilitarianism's way too simplistic

La vida es eso. Sembrar relaciones de mutua utilidad. Una buena agenda es el mejor amigo del hombre.

Function must dictate form.