Quotes About Use

The mind grows only through use, and it atrophies through idleness.

Una teoria è come una medicina (o un governo): spesso inutile, a volte necessaria, sempre interessata e occasionalmente letale. Per questo dev'essere usata con attenzione, moderazione e sotto la supervisione di un adulto.

Y los detalles se gastan, se echan a perder si uno los lleva consigo sin utilizarlos durante mucho tiempo. No sólo los detalles sino todo, todas las ocurrencias y las ideas.

A grand and almost untrodden field of inquiry will be opened, on the causes and laws of variation, on correlation of growth, on the effects of use and disuse, on the direct actions of external conditions, and so forth.

One powerful feature of a market economy is that it directs resources to their most productive use. Why doesn't Brad Pitt sell automobile insurance? Because it would be an enormous waste of his unique talents.

I like to see people enjoy using my product. This is the mission of an engineer.

In mobile, people really love having single-use case experiences. They want low friction to getting to the application's use case.

Local commerce, without question, will be one of the fundamental use cases enabled by mobile devices over the next several years.

We regard wealth as something to be properly used, rather than as something to boast about. As for poverty, no one need to be ashamed to admit it: the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it. -p147

We regard wealth as something to be properly used, rather than as something to boast about. As for poverty, no one need to be ashamed to admit it: the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it. -p147 History of Peloponnesian War

One of the key lessons of the Web 2.0 era is this: Users add value. But only a small percentage of users will go to the trouble of adding value to your application via explicit means. Therefore, Web 2.0 companies set inclusive defaults for aggregating user data and building value as a side-effect of ordinary use of the application. As noted above, they build systems that get better the more people use them.

Its kitchens were enormous and capable of being put to any use except the convenient preparation of food.

From the beginning, American California was caught in a paradox of reverent awe and exploitative use.

Put you weapon away. (Rowena) Why should I when I have half a mind to make good use of it on you? (Stryder) So you admit to having only half a mind, then? (Rowena)

There was a bright orange glove down there, the kind that lobstermen use. There was even a big lavender sofa cushion.

If you ever need to quickly get the attention of a roomful of American musicians, "A-one!" will do it every time. Warning: do not use this command frivolously.

It is only by the rational use of technology to control and guide what technology is doing that we can keep any hopes of a social life more desirable than our own: or in fact of a social life which is not appalling to imagine.

I've got a stele we can use. Who wants to do me?" "A regrettable choice of words," muttered Magnus.

Luke: Boy, it's lucky you have these compartments. Han: I use them for smuggling. I never thought I'd be smuggling myself in them. This is ridiculous.

Nature gave men two ends — one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most.

So do not waste my time. It is the most precious thing I have, time. It is the most precious thing any of us have.

Sanity is a madness put to good use.

Or perhaps Siri's programmers included parents who anticipated their children's unauthorized use of their mobile devices—trust me, a four year old can use an iPhone better than most adults):

I don't think you can win it. But I think you can create conditions so that those who use terror as a tool are less acceptable in parts of the world.