#utility

The beautiful is as useful as the useful." He added after a moment’s silence, "Perhaps more so. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#utility #beauty

...futility is being sorry while doing nothing to remove the cause ... ↗

— John Geddes

#futility #sorry #wise-words #change

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. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#method #order #utility #imagination

If there really had been a Mercutio, and if there really were a Paradise, Mercutio might be hanging out with teenage Vietnam draftee casualties now, talking about what it felt like to die for other people's vanity and foolishness. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#futility #shakespeare #shakespeare

Nearly all of our existing power sources are generators which use a heat cycle. This includes our coal, oil, and gas fired utilities, our automobiles, trucks, and trains, and even our nuclear fission utility power plants. ↗

— Wilson Greatbatch

#coal #cycle #even #existing #fired

Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three - and paradise is when you have none. ↗

— Doug Larson

#none #opulence #paradise #telephone #three

Nothing can have value without being an object of utility. ↗

— Karl Marx

#nothing #object #utility #value #without

I love the idea of making records that people can use, records that have a sense of utility. ↗

— Moby

#i love #idea #love #making #people

Fascism, the more it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity, quite apart from political considerations of the moment, believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace. ↗

— Benito Mussolini

#believes #considerations #considers #development #fascism

He suddenly found himself on the precipice of utility. ↗

— J. F. Powers

#himself #precipice #suddenly #utility