#useless

Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#better #designed #education #facts #feel

As you can see, I have memorized this utterly useless piece of information long enough to pass a test question. I now intend to forget it forever. You’ve taught me nothing except how to cynically manipulate the system. Congratulations. ↗

— Bill Watterson

#taking-tests #useless-information #cynicism

I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#consider #exists #fancy #i #me

Still, there may be technologies that are very useful in identifying people over the age of 18 because they have all kinds of identifying characteristics, while those same tech may be useless for 12- and 13-year-olds. ↗

— Richard Blumenthal

#because #characteristics #identifying #kinds #may