Quotes About Utility

If computers of the kind I have advocated become the computers of the future," he said, "then computation may someday be organized as a public utility, just as the telephone system is a public utility. We can envisage computer service companies whose subscribers are connected to them by telephone lines. Each subscriber needs to pay only for the capacity that he actually uses, but he has access to all programming languages characteristic of a very large system.

Well, it's a useful room." "Yes, I guess it's useful, all right.

Uselessness is a fatal accusation to bring against any act which is done for its presumed utility, but those which are done for their own sake are their own justification.

A key that can open many locks is worth buying. A lock that can be opened with many keys isn't.

Even when she had to make some one a present of the kind called 'useful,' when she had to give an armchair or some table-silver or a walking-stick, she would choose 'antiques,' as though their long desuetude had effaced from them any semblance of utility and fitted them rather to instruct us in the lives of the men of other days than to serve the common requirements of our own.

Design means how something works, not how it looks – the design should evolve from the function. —James Dyson

A thing of worth is what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.

I'm more interested in becoming a commercial writer, and unfortunately, commentary on my writing from a bunch of other unpublished writers is of little utility in that regard. Being a better writer is something of a moot point, since if you're not a commercial writer to some extent, very few people will know whether your writing is any good or not.

The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest-Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure, and the absence of pain; by unhappiness, pain, and the privation of pleasure.

Information doesn't deserve to be free. It is an abstract tool; a useful fantasy, a nothing. It is nonexistent until and unless a person experiences it in a useful way.

One only needs two tools in life: WD-40 to make things go, and duct tape to make them stop.

Cui bono? [To whose advantage?]

Not an elegant tapestry but a serviceable quilt.

The vulgar herd estimate friendship by its advantages. [Lat., Vulgus amicitias utilitate probat.]

The more uninteresting the letter, the more useful it is to the typographer.

I'm thankful for the three ounce Ziploc bag, so that I have somewhere to put my savings.

My goal is to be able to play wherever my team needs me.

Why pay a dollar for a bookmark? Why not use the dollar for a bookmark?

The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead

Better to be strong than pretty and useless.

Men use a new lesson or experience later on as a ploughshare or perhaps also as a weapon; women at once make it into an ornament.

Hmm. I'll need my Always Waterproof Fashion Ostrich Leash.

What the animal shows is not the manifestation of a finality, but rather of an existential value of manifestation, of presentation. What the animal shows is not utility; rather, its appearance manifests something that resembles our oneiric life.

Life is not only an organization for survival; there is in life a prodigious flourishing of forms, the utility of which is only rarely attested to and that sometimes even constitutes a danger for the animal...Adaptation is not the canon of life, but a particular realization in the tide of natural production...It can be perfectly argued that life is not uniquely submitted to the principle of utility, and that there is a morphogenesis in the design of expression.