If you had a really good - battery, it wouldn't matter that the sun goes down at night and the wind stops… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
The nineteenth century, utilitarian throughout, set up a utilitarian interpretation of the phenomenon of life which has come down to us and… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
To hinder, besides, the farmer from selling his goods at all times to the best market, is evidently to sacrifice the ordinary… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
“Arguably insane utility workers that blatantly harass law abiding customers is likely to become more frequent as the long term effects of… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
As soon as the theoretician attempts to take account of so-called 'utility' and 'reality' instead of absolute truth, his work will cease… — Adolf Hitler 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
This is a government takeover of our healthcare system. It is the government basically running the entire healthcare system, turning large insurers… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
The income men derive from producing things of slight consequence is of great consequence. The production reflects the low marginal utility of… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The world's forests need to be seen for what they are.. giant global utilities, providing essential services to humanity on a vast… — Prince Charles Copy Share Image
Feeling prosperous means paying your utility bills on time and with a smile on your face. Prosperity means not only giving to… — Ernie J Zelinski 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
The strengths landscape architecture draws from its garden design heritage include: the Vitruvian design tradition of balancing utility, firmness and beauty; use… — Tom Turner Copy Share Image
I regard the state of which I am a citizen as a public utility, like the organization that supplies me with water,… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
My belief is firm in a law of compensation. The true rewards are ever in proportion to the labor and sacrifices made.… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
“The most disappointing of the jobs I had was the ‘Green’ solar photovoltaic industry. I had three jobs in the field. Two… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
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
That the foundation of our national policy should be laid in private morality. If individuals be not influenced by moral principles, it… — James Madison Copy Share Image
It is rather astonishing how little practical value scientific knowledge has for ordinary men, how dull and commonplace such of it as… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
Selection is the very keel on which our mental ship is built. And in this case of memory its utility is obvious.… — William James 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
Ah, the power of two. There's nothing quite like it. Especially when it comes to paying utility bills, parenting, cooking elaborate meals,… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
The masses are the material of democracy, but its form-that is to say, the laws which express the general reason, justice, and… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
We might even invent laws for series or formula in an arbitrary manner, and set the engine to work upon them, and… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
The answer is simple. If we lose the world's forests, we lose the fight against climate change. Rainforests are our Earth's greatest… — Michael Somare 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
It so happens that the work which is likely to be our most durable monument, and to convey some knowledge of us… — Montgomery Schuyler Copy Share Image
It is the great beauty of our science, chemistry, that advancement in it, whether in a degree great or small, instead of… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
What Google did in Web 1.0 was take a feature, which was search, and built an entire business around that utility. In… — Peter Fenton Copy Share Image
In truth, the best long-term explanations about our ancient counterparts can be found in the paintings, sculpture, crafts, tools of utility, language… — Edward J. Fraughton Copy Share Image
[Gold] gets dug out of the ground in Africa, or someplace. Then we melt it down, dig another hole, bury it again… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I don't ever think about the utility of fiction. I don't believe in it or certainly don't require anybody to consider it.… — Francisco Goldman Copy Share Image
Renewable energy fits well into the conservative mindset by allowing competition into the energy markets so that consumers have choice. The system… — Mark Ruffalo Copy Share Image
“The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest-Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as… — John Stuart Mill 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
The freedom to own and carry the weapon of your choice is a natural, fundamental, and inalienable human, individual, civil, and Constitutional… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
The even mead, that erst brought sweetly forth The freckled cowslip, burnet, and green clover, Wanting the scythe, all uncorrected, rank, Conceives… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Has it not. . . invariably been found that momentary passions, and immediate interests, have a more active and imperious control over… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The utility model of computing - computing resources delivered over the network in much the same way that electricity or telephone service… — Scott McNealy Copy Share Image
The height and value of true virtue consists in the facility, utility, and pleasure of its exercise; so far from difficulty, that… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Whenever you play dance music, it serves a function. It becomes a utility; you have to worry about the tempos and what… — Stan Kenton Copy Share Image
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