Bernoulli's real contribution was to coin a word. The word has been translated into English as "utility". It describes this subjective value… — William Poundstone Copy Share Image
Timberland is an all-American brand focused on work, utility and the outdoors, that managed to find a place in the fashion world… — Pharrell Williams Copy Share Image
The calculus of utility aims at supplying the ordinary wants of man at the least cost of labour. — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
“After researching the utility industry, I concluded there are a subset of employees that are just nasty!” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web. — Edwin Way Teale Copy Share Image
“Outer happiness has Diminishing Marginal Utility; the more it grows, the satisfaction decreases. Resort to inner happiness.” — Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma Copy Share Image
“Having worked for a utility company, I was aware of how corrupt they are with their own workers. What really surprised me… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Beauty is assailed from two directions - by the cult of ugliness in the arts, and by the cult of utility in… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
The triumph of science has been mainly due to its practical utility, and there has been an attempt to divorce this aspect… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It was during the eighteenth century - a period of boastful satisfaction with the nice balances within the English constitution - that… — Joyce Lee Malcolm Copy Share Image
One of the most difficult things to learn is to render service without bossing, without making a fuss about it, and without… — Meher Baba Copy Share Image
My principal work now lies in tracing out the exact nature and conditions of utility. It seems strange indeed that economists have… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
Good design is innovative Gives a product utility Is aesthetic Makes a product easy to understand Is unobtrusive Is honest Is long-lived… — Dieter Rams Copy Share Image
Nearly all of our existing power sources are generators which use a heat cycle. This includes our coal, oil, and gas fired… — Wilson Greatbatch Copy Share Image
Play: It is an an activity which proceeds within certain limits of time and space, in a visible order, according to rules… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
I regarded as quite useless the reading of large treatises of pure analysis: too large a number of methods pass at once… — Joseph-Louis Lagrange Copy Share Image
Liberals in the US don't have great passions about Margaret Thatcher. Conservatives do. For all the worship that Ronald Reagan elicits in… — Jon Weisman Copy Share Image
Darwin and his successors have railed against the fallacy of confusing the current utility of a trait with the reason the trait… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
It is the censor's business to make a judgment about the propriety of the content or message of the proposed expressive activity.… — Richard Posner Copy Share Image
Clinton provided the final transition between decaying old-style liberalism and the new neoliberalism and neoconservatism - which are kind of incestuous first… — Jeffrey St. Clair Copy Share Image
They were just snapshots, nothing special, nothing particularly artistic. They were used for utility purposes. (On photographs of mundane streetscapes he had… — Robert Crumb Copy Share Image
To be governed is, under pretext of public utility and in the name of the general interest, to be laid under contribution,… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
Recovering from suffering is not like recovering from a disease. Many people don’t come out healed; they come out different. They crash… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
In the United States the sovereign authority is religious, and consequently hypocrisy must be common; but there is no country in the… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Real wealth consists in things of utility and beauty, in things that help to create strong, beautiful bodies and surroundings inspiring to… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Moral sensibilities are nowadays at such cross-purposes that to one man a morality is proved by its utility, while to another its… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If your user base engagement is fledgeling, a token may not be the panacea unless it is properly threaded into the product,… — William Mougayar Copy Share Image
I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
Explaining why he was forced to cut a utility player: You just got caught in a position where you have no position. — Sparky Anderson Copy Share Image
“The 'Smart' radio frequency (RF) utility meter program is a known biologically harmful system that has been implemented by evil people.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
The sceptics assert, though absurdly, that the origin of all religious worship was derived from the utility of inanimate objects,as the sun… — David Hume Copy Share Image
People forget already how much utility they get out of the Internet - how much utility they get out of e-mail, how… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
Whoever, in the pursuit of science, seeks after immediate practical utility, may generally rest assured that he will seek in vain. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Regarding wetsuits, I always liked the Marilyn Minter quote, 'Everything's better when wet,' injecting some style into sports utility, — Cynthia Rowley Copy Share Image
“I find it very concerning that a utility company that has an established history of harassing me has my family under surveillance… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“The worst understaffed company I worked for was one of the largest electrical utility companies in the USA.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
I mean, our primary businesses in wholesale pipelines, utilities, retail, were all doing extremely well. — Kenneth Lay Copy Share Image
You can make great money in a utility type of business by borrowing cheaply and lending sensibly but that's not what's being… — Meredith Whitney Copy Share Image
Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to… — Vannevar Bush Copy Share Image
There are two principles of established acceptance in morals; first, that self-interest is the mainspring of all of our actions, and secondly,… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
