Quotes About Utility

People around here didn't waste words; language was a tool, not a treat. You didn't roll it around on your tongue, revel in it.

Magic, like technology, is a tool.

And a utility belt! I'm like an asthmatic Batman!

As a general rule, when something becomes useful, it ceases to be beautiful." 2 THÉOPHILE GAUTIER, 1811–1872

finance was to become a public utility, situated in the public domain or at least alongside a public banking option. Instead, the past century's expansion of predatory credit has been reinforced by de-taxing interest, land rent, financial speculation, debt leveraging and "capital" (asset-price) gains.

the idea that the right way of valuing goods and social practices depends on the purposes and ends those practices serve.

When they made decisions, people did not seek to maximize utility. They sought to minimize regret.

True utility computing centers are on the horizon, but right now, the only real ones are a pale approximation of this vision. In the world that the other 99.9% of us inhabit, production systems are deployed to some relatively fixed set of resources. Applications

Travel aesthetics should be just as comfortable and practical as they are fashionable.

In the richest country in the history of the world, this Obama economy has crushed the middle class. Family income has fallen by $4 0, but health insurance premiums are higher, food prices are higher, utility bills are higher, and gasoline prices have doubled. Today more Americans wake up in poverty than ever before.

I consoled myself with the knowledge that if I were any good at pool I'd run the table quickly and not be able to play as long. As with so many things, there was utility in avoiding excellence.

The very term 'public utility' … is an absurd one. Every good is useful 'to the public,' and almost every good … may be considered 'necessary.' Any designation of a few industries as 'public utilities' is completely arbitrary and unjustified.

The only proper test of worth is the judgment of the consumer who actually uses the product. And the State's judgment is bound to be governed by its own despotic interests.

Most books are worthy but they are not practical. Because I am a lover of non-fiction works.

With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue.

as a utility served more customers, it would become more efficient, allowing it to cut the cost of power further and in turn attract even more customers.

In 1930, it hit 80 percent. Soon, it was over 90 percent. Only a handful of manufacturers, mainly those running big factories in remote locations, continued to produce their own current. Thanks to Samuel Insull, the age of the private power plant was over. The utility had triumphed.

Sacrifice is the movement of violent liberation from servility, the collapse of transcendence. Inhibiting the sacrificial relapse of isolated being is the broad utilitarianism inherent to humanity, correlated with a profane delimitation from ferocious nature that finds its formula in theology. In its profane aspect, religion is martialled under a conception of God; the final guarantor of persistent being, the submission of (ruinous) time to reason, and thus the ultimate principle of utility.

Useful men stay alive.

Money shouldn't frighten people. It's a tool. A very versatile one.

This [waxed paper] is the paper that is perfect for keeping air-dried hams fresh. You could use cling film but it often causes the ham to sweat, and is rather wasteful. I have also reached the age where I can no longer find the end of the roll. Ditto sellotape. Ditto bloody everything.

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

Even a stone has its uses, and man who is the most intelligent of all creatures must be of some use, hasn't he?

It's hard to be sad when you're being useful. And he liked that idea. That service to others brought happiness. It was self-involvement that led to depression, to spiraling questions about the meaning of things. This