#useless

Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#body #considered #culture #define #forgotten

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 university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#business #conservation #enterprise #exist #fails

Well, one doesn't try to hold Cass and Denny and Michelle together. It's a useless task to start with. You just sort of stay out of the way and let things roll as they can. ↗

— John Phillips

#hold #just #michelle #out #roll

Only useless things are indispensable. ↗

— Francis Picabia

#only #things #useless

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#answers #give #only #useless #you

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

I know a lot about a few things - mostly useless things. ↗

— Mo Rocca

#few #few things #i #know #lot

Already, in the last few decades, you have realized the utter futility of of encumbering yourselves with superfluous possessions that have no useful virtue, but which, for various sentimental reasons, you continue to hoard, thus lessening your life's efficiency by using for it time and attention that should have been applied to the practical work of life's accomplishments. (The Miracle of the Lily - 1928) ↗

— Clare Winger Harris

#material-possessions #materialism #possessions #uselessness #wasted-time

Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#directly #disinterested #force #knowledge #made