Quotes About Utility

If we could all come to see our consumer products as tools that help us to live our real lives—rather than as substitutes and surrogates for that life—we would need many fewer products to be happy.

Who needs such a long intestine, anyway?

Once a thing is nothing more than what it is, it's too useful to serve the cause of luxury.

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

Something that doesn't actually exist can still be useful.

El conocimiento es algo que tú puedes utilizar. La creencia es algo que te utiliza a ti.

La forma es útil, pero secundaria.

Las ramas sin fruto pueden parecer poco elegantes. Son, para el cocinero, los medios para hacer su fuego.

Never underestimate the power of a simple tool.

As Peter Berger has noted, the strategy of apologizing for Christian faith by trying to demonstrate its social utility is always eventually self-liquidating. Sooner of later people realize that a great many of the supposedly practical and secular benefits of the Christian religion can be had more easily without religion...The logic of practical atheism may well be more deeply ingrained in the evangelical tradition than conservatives perhaps have realized.

I don't always listen to things ... at least I do listen, but, unless the things are going to be useful to mc, I don't keep them.

There were discussions about minutiae like pockets, which Virginia Gildersleeve felt were essential for any working woman. But the designers felt pockets would spoil the lines of the suit. 'Utility was sacrificed to looks,' Gildersleeve noted with some disgust in her memoir. 'They certainly looked very attractive and no doubt won many recruits for the Navy; but I regretted those pockets.

Naturally, the air conditioner wasn't working. It seemed the only time it worked was in the winter when she didn't need it. Ditto for the heater, which seemed to work best in the summer.

When it is useful to them, men can believe a theory of which they know nothing more than its name.

Computers are merely ingenious devices to fulfill unimportant functions. The computer revolution is an explosion of nonsense.

All models are wrong," the statistician George Box observed, "but some are useful.

Justice is useful when money is useless.

I will proceed by asking a question: Would you not say that a horse has some end? I should. And the end or use of a horse or of anything would be that which could not be accomplished, or not so well accomplished, by any other thing? I do not understand, he said. Let me explain: Can you see, except with the eye? Certainly not. Or hear, except with the ear? No. These then may be truly said to be the ends of these organs? They may.

Girl, it's an umbrella, not a Lamborghini

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 a lobster?

he no longer had enough faith in anger's utility to pursue its course.

a ja nie lubi? k?amstwa, chyba ?e jest u?yteczne i nieodzowne.

Il (l'homme) ne te donnera jamais que ce qui ne lui est bon à rien, et te demandera toujours ce qui lui est utile.

Au fost l?udaÅ£i mult mai mult oamenii ocupaÅ£i a ne face s? credem c? suntem fericiÅ£i, decât oamenii ocupaÅ£i a ne face s? fim fericiÅ£i cu adev?rat. Ce ciud??enie în judec??ile noastre! Pretindem ca fiecare s? fac? ceva folositor, dar îi dispreÅ£uim pe oamenii folositori.