Quotes about Utility

No, it is cast into the fire for fuel. The fire devours both ends, and the middle is charred. Can it be useful for anything?

I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.

Possessions are mere transient effects that come when they are required, and after their purpose has been served, pass away.

Flowers and fruits are always fit presents; flowers because they are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.... these delicate flowers look like the frolic and interference of love and beauty.

An ugly candle that lights up a home is better than a beautiful lamp that merely decorates a room.

Hence it is predicated chiefly of the virtuous; then of the pleasant; and lastly of the useful.

When we buy a product, we essentially "hire" something to get a job done. If it does the job well, when we are confronted with the same job, we hire that same product again. And if the product does a crummy job, we "fire" it and look around for something else we might hire to solve the problem.

The only beautiful things, as somebody once said, are the things that do not concern us. As long as a thing is useful or necessary to us...it is outside the proper sphere of art.

As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.

Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.

Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.

We can't ever forget that the Internet now is just a staid utility. The exciting platforms are software applications that are very, very simple.