The determination of the value of an item must not be based on its price, but rather on the utility it yields.… — Daniel Bernoulli Copy Share Image
Nothing can be more hopeless than to attempt to explain this similarity of pattern in members of the same class, by utility… — Charles Darwin 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
Speaking one day to Monsieur de Buffon, on the present ardor of chemical inquiry, he affected to consider chemistry but as cookery,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The assumption that individuals act objectively in accordance with purely mathematical dictates to maximize their gain or utility cannot be sustained by… — Richard Arnold Epstein Copy Share Image
If you are without bread, how much wisdom can you boast and of what real utility are your talents, if you cannot… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A simple statement is bound to be untrue. One that is not simple cannot be utilized.” — Paul Valéry Copy Share Image
The basis of the free market is anytime you can generate revenue or profit, you've created value in excess of the resources… — Michael J. Saylor Copy Share Image
The Convention is not only a visionary document. We are reminded daily that it is an agreement that works - and its… — Carol Bellamy 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
In economic terms, we've always thought of work as a disutility - as something you do to get something else. Now it's… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
Music is essentially useless, as life is; but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Composition is the art of arranging in a decorative manner the various elements which the painter uses to express his sentiments. In… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Of all parts of wisdom, the practice is the best. Socrates was esteemed the wisest man of his time because he turned… — John Tillotson 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
My principal professional objective is to introduce intelligence as the ubiquitous utility. I'd like to be the Thomas Edison of intelligence. — Michael J. Saylor Copy Share Image
We can't ever forget that the Internet now is just a staid utility. The exciting platforms are software applications that are very,… — Mark Cuban 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
If you want to maximize your expected utility, you try to save the world and the future of intergalactic civilization instead of… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
The only reason of the institution of civil government; and the only rational ground of submission to it, is the common safety… — Jonathan Mayhew Copy Share Image
I'm a Utilitarian, so I don't see the rule against lying as absolute; it's always subject to some overriding utility which may… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
