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Quotes About Utility

Justice is useful when money is useless.
~ Plato, The Republic
In designing hardware to be used every day, it was important to keep both the human aspects and the machine in mind. What looks good also often feels good
~ Michael Graves
Good design emphasises the usefulness of a product whilst disregarding anything that could possibly detract from it.
~ Dieter Rams
Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people.
~ Thomas J. Watson
I want to know what good is a web search engine that returns 324,909,188 'matches' to my key word. That's like saying, "Good news, we've located the product you're looking for. It's on Earth.
~ W. Bruce Cameron
All the good things of the world are no further good to us than as they are of use; and of all we may heap up we enjoy only as much as we can use, and no more.
~ Daniel Defoe
If a good word already exists, there is no need to invent something painful.
~ William Zinsser
The only reason of the institution of civil government; and the only rational ground of submission to it, is the common safety and utility
~ Jonathan Mayhew
Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.
~ Friedrich Schiller
A great artist is never a closed subject, but this catalogue is a milestone production, as useful as it is beautiful.
~ Norbert Lynton
As useful as an unhappy artist. As useless as a happy philosopher.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Design should not dominate things, should not dominate people. It should help people. That's its role.
~ Dieter Rams
I've never seen electricity, that's why I don't pay for it
~ Steven Wright
The fraudulent electrical utility company in conjunction with the corrupt sheriff taught me that an Englishman's home is not his castle
~ Steven Magee
I bought a seven-dollar pen because I always lose pens and I got sick of not caring.
~ Mitch Hedberg
Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.
~ Terry Pratchett, Jingo
Why do we wash bath towels? Aren't we clean when we use them?
~ Steven Wright
And-he was ashamed to admit--he had been known to carry off the occasional roll of duct tape. That stuff could be used for everything.
~ Sharon Ashwood, Unchained
Truth and right are above utility in all realms of thought and action.
~ Charles William Eliot
The idiot wrote that message on his utility bill.
~ Jana Deleon
The easiest, most straightforward way to create a great product or service is to make something you want to use.
~ Jason Fried
The easiest, most straightforward way to create a great product or service is to make something you want to use. That lets you design what you know—and you'll figure out immediately whether or not what you're making is any good.
~ Jason Fried
Vieste para perceber se ainda és útil, porque necessário não é ninguém.
~ Javier Marías
The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people, as equally true; by the philosopher, as equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful. And
~ Edward Gibbon