Let me say this before rain becomes a utility that they can plan and distribute for money. By "they" I mean the… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The information highway is being sold to us as delivering information, but what it's really delivering is data... Unlike data, information has… — Clifford Stoll Copy Share Image
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility. But we have seen that it is one of the lies of the serious… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Not to be, but to seem, virtuous - it is a formula whose utility we all discovered in the nursery. — C. S. Lewis 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
In all determinations of morality, this circumstance of public utility is ever principally in view; and wherever disputes arise, either in philosophy… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Facebook's a wonderful, incredible way to bring humanity together. They've brought together 2 billion people in the largest fictional family in history.… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
The Great War differed from all ancient wars in the immense power of the combatants and their fearful agencies of destruction, and… — Winston Churchill 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
The potential for Home Star to create jobs is proven and real. In Vermont, our statewide energy efficiency utility, Efficiency Vermont, created… — Peter Welch Copy Share Image
One of the most important axioms is, that as the quantity of any commodity, for instance, plain food, which a man has… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
A good man will never suspect his friends of shady actions: this is part of his goodness. A good man will never… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If one believes philosophers, then what we call religion is only a deliberately popularized or an instinctively artless philosophy. Poets seem to… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
Only those who love color are admitted to its beauty and immanent presence. It affords utility to all, but unveils its deeper… — Johannes Itten 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
Humanity seems bent on creating a world economy primarily based on goods that take no material form. In doing so, we may… — John Perry Barlow Copy Share Image
“[T]he scale of a man's evil is not entirely to be measured by its practical consequences. Men commit evil within the scope… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
It is folly to use as one's guide in the selection of fundamental science the criterion of utility. Not because (scientists)... despise… — John Charles Polanyi Copy Share Image
For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize... They were pursuing science… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The utility of a language as a tool of thought increases with the range of topics it can treat, but decreases with… — Kenneth E. Iverson 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
Because subjects like literature and art history have no obvious material pay-off, they tend to attract those who look askance at capitalist… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
The misconception that there is serious disagreement among scientists about global warming is actually an illusion that has been deliberately fostered by… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
