89 Quotes About Utility
- Author John Steinbeck
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Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.
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- Author Victor Hugo
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The beautiful is as useful as the useful." He added after a moment’s silence, "Perhaps more so.
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- Author Ayn Rand
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She watched the tunnels as they flowed past: bare walls of concrete, a net of pipes and wires, a web of rails that went off into black holes where green and red lights hung as distant drops of color. There was nothing else to dilute it, so that one could admire naked purpose and the ingenuity that had achieved it.
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- Author John Stuart Mill
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The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.
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- Author Steven Magee
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The 'Smart' radio frequency (RF) utility meter program is a known biologically harmful system that has been implemented by evil people.
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- Author Steven Magee
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Ignore me and we will have a problem.
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- Author Ben Orlin
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It is a funny paradox of design: utility breeds beauty. There is elegance in efficiency, a visual pleasure in things that just barely work.
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- Author Osho
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The stupid mind thinks only in terms of possession. The man of insight thinks of utility.
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- Author Umberto Eco
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The order that our mind imagines is like a net, or like a ladder, built to attain something. But afterward you must throw the ladder away, because you discover that, even if it was useful, it was meaningless.
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