Quotes About Utility

The best hemp and the best tobacco grow on the same kind of soil. The former article is of the first necessity to the wealth and protection of the country. The latter, never useful.

The universal solution to ninety-seven percent of life's problems. Duct tape.

the ultimate unit test is whether or not users want to use your application. All the other tests you write are totally irrelevant until you can get that one to pass.

Could anything so handsome, so decorative, so…so enthusiastic…possibly be useful?

Trash? echoed Cadfael, mildly and thoughtfully. Oh, pleasant to have, and useful, I know. But once you have enough of it for your needs, the rest of it is trash. Can you eat it, wear it, ride it, keep off the rain and the cold with it, read it, play music on it, make love to it?

We might as reasonably dispute whether it is the upper or the under blade of a pair of scissors that cuts a piece of paper, as whether value is governed by utility or cost of production.

A car for every purse and purpose.

A minha felicidade ou infelicidade depende da utilidade ou inutilidade da presente existência.

The best tool for any task is the one that you'll actually use.

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.

This is very much my philosophy as a fashion designer. I have never believed in design for design's sake. For me, the most important thing is that people actually wear my clothes. I do not design for the catwalk or for magazine shoots - I design for customers.

I make clothes people can wear; I don't make art.

What Google did in Web 1.0 was take a feature, which was search, and built an entire business around that utility. In Web 2.0, Twitter took a feature, which is sharing, and built a utility that allowed people to do that on a massive scale.

If I displayed this cup, I might look at it once or twice a week. By using it, I get pleasure from it continually.

The more positions I can play, it gives the manager a nice headache, and it can be helpful for him.

It makes it easier for you to play more often and it makes it easier for the manager if he has players who can be used in different positions.

The more positions you can play, the more ways you can help the team.

Folding in is better than folding out. Folding out is cool, and it looks potentially better... but I don't think that's the way to use a folding phone.

I love cunning containers as much as anyone, but I've found that if I get rid of everything I don't need, I often don't need a container at all.

First, buy things for their usefulness rather than their status.

When there are two possible solutions, favor the one that is simpler and based on concrete need rather than the more intricate one that boasts of generality.

You look too pretty to be useful.

You look too pretty to be useful. - Angeline

Hank was full of absolutes, pronouncements like "Art has no utility" and "Warhol is irrelevant.