Utility Quotes

191 quotes by 174 authors

The strengths landscape architecture draws from its garden design heritage include: the Vitruvian design tradition of balancing utility, firmness and beauty; use of the word… — Tom Turner
In that, we agreed with Andrew Carnegie, who said that huge fortunes that flow in large part from society should in large part be returned… — Warren Buffett
I'm obsessed with the form of a toolbox. The idea of a portable kit that has everything you might need ignites something inside me. It's… — Adam Savage
The masses are the material of democracy, but its form-that is to say, the laws which express the general reason, justice, and utility-can only be… — Henri Frederic Amiel
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. — Sean Parker
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… — Matt Mullenweg
The value and utility of any experiment are determined by the fitness of the material to the purpose for which it is used, and thus… — Gregor Mendel
The potential for Home Star to create jobs is proven and real. In Vermont, our statewide energy efficiency utility, Efficiency Vermont, created more than 430… — Peter Welch
The traditional boundaries between various fields of science are rapidly disappearing and what is more important science does not know any national borders. The scientists… — Sune Bergstrom
Books are the basis; purity is the force; preaching is the essence; utility is the principle. — A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
A good man will never suspect his friends of shady actions: this is part of his goodness. A good man will never be suspected by… — Bertrand Russell
Well, there's no question that the law passed in 1996 was flawed. It deregulated the wholesale market, meaning the price that the utilities had to… — Gray Davis
Play: It is an an activity which proceeds within certain limits of time and space, in a visible order, according to rules freely accepted, and… — Johan Huizinga
The most noble and profitable invention of all other, was that of SPEECH, consisting of Names or Appellations, and their Connexion; whereby men register their… — Thomas Hobbes
I regarded as quite useless the reading of large treatises of pure analysis: too large a number of methods pass at once before the eyes.… — Joseph-Louis Lagrange
Nearly all of our existing power sources are generators which use a heat cycle. This includes our coal, oil, and gas fired utilities, our automobiles,… — Wilson Greatbatch
There's always the tendency to transform the Church into an ethical agency, and of measuring the Church by the yardstick of social and cultural utility. — Karl Lehmann
If you wanted to create jobs in a way that has minimal effect on the deficit but has government action, the two best things you… — William J. Clinton
Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance. In this great balance of… — Friedrich Schiller
All men know the utility of useful things; but they do not know the utility of futility. — Zhuangzi

Who Wrote These Utility Quotes

174 authors contributed a total of 191 Utility Quotes, led by these top contributors: