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Quotes About Utility

But hope and truth do nothing for humans without use. In the clumpy, clumsy fingerpaint of words, she searches for the use of Old Tjikko, up on that barren crest, endlessly dying and resurrecting in every change of climate. His use is to show that the world is not made for our utility. What use are we to trees?
~ Richard Powers
In a world of perfect utility, we, too, will be forced to vanish.
~ Richard Powers
She flips open the uppermost notebook, to the page where she has just written: In a world of perfect utility, we, too, will be forced to vanish.
~ Richard Powers
William Morris that you should have nothing in your house that you didn't know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.
~ Kate Atkinson
Morris says that you should have nothing in your house that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful," she
~ Kate Atkinson
There's a use for everything and everything has it's use.
~ Kate DiCamillo
I care only for the people who are useful to me—and only so long as they are useful," he said on St. Helena.
~ Kate Williams
Un avantaj nu era util dac? nu era folosit.
~ Ken Follett
Never underestimate the power of a simple tool.
~ Craig Reucassel
Never present a power-user option in such a way that normal users must learn all about it in order to know they don't need to use it.
~ Bruce Tognazzini
Eventually, we can get to a system where an electric company will be able to hold back some of the power so that maybe your air conditioner won't operate at its peak.
~ Carol Browner
An electrical utility company that blatantly lies to law enforcement about an electrical fraud researcher would be considered suicidal by many people.
~ Steven Magee
The corporate government is heavily influenced by the utility company cartel.
~ Steven Magee
Electricians that like good health avoid the known biologically toxic very high powered electrical utility jobs.
~ Steven Magee
If you want a golden rule that will fit everything, this is it: Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.
~ William Morris
Nothing useless can be truly beautiful.
~ William Morris
Have nothing in your house you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.
~ William Morris
Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful"- 1834
~ William Morris
The hardest knife ill-used doth lose his edge.
~ William Shakespeare
A chair is the first thing you need when you don't really need anything and is, therefore, a particularly compelling symbol of civilisation. (Attributed to Ralph Caplan)
~ Witold Rybczynski
La Griffe, "The Claw." Simple and small. The index finger goes through the hole near the blade. Favored by climbers and boaters. Designed by Fredric Perrin, manufactured by Ernest Emerson. (Emersonknoves.com)
~ David Morrell
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.
~ David Sedaris
Ancient forests that took millennia to evolve are called "decadent" or "overmature," so clearing them is justified by the notion that they are finished or at an end. Sometimes the forest industry labels such forests "wild," and what is planted and grown after it has been clear-cut is called a "normal" forest. We define things in terms of human utility, not in any way that makes ecological or even biological sense.
~ David Suzuki
We don't use these technologies because they are huge, connected, and complex. We use them because they work.
~ David Weinberger