Utility Quotes

Timberland is an all-American brand focused on work, utility and the outdoors, that managed to find a place in the fashion world as well

If you consider only utility, the things you build will soon be useless... nobody wants to be in it.

Any item in your wardrobe should satisfy one of two criteria: utility and joy.

Legalize racing in every State. Sure people will bet, but they get to see the horses run and you certain can't see General Motors and General Electric and General Utility run when you bet on them.

Nothing teems But hateful docks, rough thistles, kecksies, burs, Losing both beauty and utility.

The calculus of utility aims at supplying the ordinary wants of man at the least cost of labour.

Regarding wetsuits, I always liked the Marilyn Minter quote, 'Everything's better when wet,' injecting some style into sports utility.

Possessing utility, commodities derive their exchangeable value from two sources: from their scarcity, and from the quantity of labour required to obtain them.

An important question to ask is, 'Where and when did decoration and utility first meet?

A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.

It is the peculiar beauty of this method, gentlemen, and one which endears it to the really scientific mind, that under no circumstance can it be of the smallest possible utility.

To what shall the character of utility be ascribed, if not to that which is a source of pleasure?

Nothing is more useful to man that those arts which have no utility.

Facebook is such a basic utility. It's something that is such a part of peoples' lives, I think it's hard to imagine it going away.

The sceptics assert, though absurdly, that the origin of all religious worship was derived from the utility of inanimate objects,as the sun and moon, to the support and well-being of mankind.

Comic strips are like a public utility. They're supposed to be there 365 days a year, and you're supposed to be able to hit the mark day after day.

Uselessness is a fatal accusation to bring against any act which is done for its presumed utility, but those which are done for their own sake are their own justification.

The utility of living consists not in the length of days, but in the use of time; a man may have lived long, and yet lived but a little.

Taking faith seriously leads to the utility of altruistic behavior.

All men know the utility of useful things; but they do not know the utility of futility.

The beautiful is as useful as the useful." He added after a moment’s silence, "Perhaps more so.

Having to squeeze the last drop of utility out of the land has the same desperate finality as having to chop up the furniture to keep warm.

Once you prove yourself, that you're a utility player, they're going to contact you and say, hey, yeah, we need you for a film next Thursday at Fox or Sony or whatever. You kind of get a reputation.

Not to be, but to seem, virtuous - it is a formula whose utility we all discovered in the nursery.

Though no one would want to be sold as a slave, it is perhaps even more galling to be a sort of utility slave whom no one will buy.

Folk art has never been much about politics; it's about action and utility.

The utility of the robot needs to come first. It's business model over technology.

Psychologists call this habituation, economists call it declining marginal utility, and the rest of us call it marriage.

In economic terms, we've always thought of work as a disutility - as something you do to get something else. Now it's increasingly a utility - something that's valuable and worthy in its own right.

Trying to gin up political violence for its electoral utility is - I think inarguably what we're seeing here. And I know that the Donald Trump campaign will not say that is what they're doing.

Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Real wealth consists in things of utility and beauty, in things that help to create strong, beautiful bodies and surroundings inspiring to live in.

Moral sensibilities are nowadays at such cross-purposes that to one man a morality is proved by its utility, while to another its utility refutes it.

I'm a utility infielder. There's always somebody who is better at a specific task than I am, but I can pitch in at a bunch of different things as needed.

Most people, even in simple risky situations, don't behave the way the theory of utility would have them behave.

Modern science has its value in terms of utility, but it cannot open up existence to human experience.

My own suspicion is that a stand-alone artificial mind will be more a tool of narrow utility than something especially apocalyptic.

True art is but the anti-type of nature; the embodiment of discovered beauty in utility.

Reddit is not a public utility or a public square; its a privately owned space on the Internet.

Happy 60th Birthday, good buddy. How are you dealing with your awful debility, lessened utility and loss of mobility?

It is only by being exchanged that the products of labor acquire a socially uniform objectivity as values, which is distinct from their sensuously varied objectivity as articles of utility.

...the realm of freedom does not commence until the point is passed where labor under the compulsion of necessity and of external utility is required.

[on the theory of the firm] It is exactly analogous to the analysis of the reactions of a consumer by means of indifferent curves. Indeed, a consumer is merely a 'firm' whose product is 'utility.'

Tools may limit the user, but the utility of tools is limited by the skill of the user.

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.

Simperium seems like a genuine utility for our own apps, and for other people as a service. And Simplenote, as a product, I love, and it's just darn handy.

That choice to be ready to reject all other purposes, in favor of the possibilities of language freed from utility, is when the writer becomes a poet.

I love the idea of making records that people can use, records that have a sense of utility.

We are not getting rid of carriers any time soon. This is both because of their utility and also because of their role in Navy culture and in the defense-industrial complex. It is an academic debate.

The assumption that individuals act objectively in accordance with purely mathematical dictates to maximize their gain or utility cannot be sustained by empirical observation.