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Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge; history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will - are all gone.


Albert J. Nock


#gone #higher #him #his #history

The vulgar crowd values friends according to their usefulness.


Ovid


#crowd #friends #their #usefulness #values

In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration".


Alan Perlis


#computing #definition #frustration #into #living

Sometimes in my class I have people come in and do monologues inspired by people they know and I always find that to be useful to do specifics about somebody and then you're actually doing a character and not doing some random old lady or something.


Amy Poehler


#actually #always #character #class #come

Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority.


Henri Poincare


#combinations #consists #constructing #infinite #invention

The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.


Henri Poincare


#because #delights #does #nature #scientist

I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way.


Sydney Pollack


#architecture #art #art form #aspect #certainly

I think it's useful, as a famous person, to have as little separation between the perception of you and how you really are - because otherwise I'd be sitting here thinking I'm keeping secrets, and wondering when you're going to find out.


Daniel Radcliffe


#between #famous #famous person #find #going

I feel a big obligation to the audience, almost in a moral sense, to say something useful. If I'm going to spend a year of my life on these things, I want something that I feel that strongly about.


Harold Ramis


#almost #audience #big #feel #going

Education is more than Pisa. Particularly musical education. We also need education and training for more than reasons of usefulness and marketability.


Johannes Rau


#education #marketability #more #musical #need






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