Utility Quotes

191 quotes by 174 authors

Current utility and historical origin are different subjects. — Stephen Jay Gould
Because subjects like literature and art history have no obvious material pay-off, they tend to attract those who look askance at capitalist notions of utility.… — Terry Eagleton
Psychologists call this habituation, economists call it declining marginal utility, and the rest of us call it marriage. — Daniel Gilbert
But then he told himself: What does it really mean to be useful? Today's world, just as it is, contains the sum of the utility… — Milan Kundera
Though no one would want to be sold as a slave, it is perhaps even more galling to be a sort of utility slave whom… — C.S. Lewis
Selection is the very keel on which our mental ship is built. And in this case of memory its utility is obvious. If we remembered… — William James
And a utility belt! I'm like an asthmatic Batman! — Michael Buckley
[Gold] gets dug out of the ground in Africa, or someplace. Then we melt it down, dig another hole, bury it again and pay people… — Warren Buffett
I did not realize that when money becomes a core value, then education drives towards utility or that the life of the mind will not… — Jeanette Winterson
Art has no other object than to set aside the symbols of practical utility, the generalities that are conventionally and socially accepted, everything in fact… — Henri Bergson
My belief is firm in a law of compensation. The true rewards are ever in proportion to the labor and sacrifices made. This is one… — Nikola Tesla
In my humble opinion, the PC as we have known it is in a continuous decline and being relegated to a utility device for businesses. — Hector Ruiz
If you want to maximize your expected utility, you try to save the world and the future of intergalactic civilization instead of donating your money… — Eliezer Yudkowsky
I have never collected an object or figure from Africa or Oceania because of anything curious about it or because of its utility or historic… — Frank Crowninshield
Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point. — Bill Gates
History or custom or social utility or some compelling sense of justice or sometimes perhaps a semi-intuitive apprehension of the pervading spirit of our law… — Benjamin N. Cardozo
What Google did in Web 1.0 was take a feature, which was search, and built an entire business around that utility. In Web 2.0, Twitter… — Peter Fenton
Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three - and paradise is when you… — Doug Larson
He suddenly found himself on the precipice of utility. — J F Powers
All I ever promised was that I was sure I could develop a new pharmacological agent which might answer a physiological question. Any utility would… — James W. Black

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