#utility

Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

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To remove this obstacle I repeat or refer to such knowledge as has come under my notice, my own previously expressed views, and also describe and exhibit my last experiments and explain their novelty and utility. ↗

— Lawrence Hargrave

#come #describe #exhibit #experiments #explain

Free trade is not based on utility but on justice. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#free #free trade #justice #trade #utility

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

— Karl Marx

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With a painter or a sculptor, one cannot begin to alter his works, but an architect has to put up with anything, because he makes utility objects - the building is there to be used, and times change. ↗

— Arne Jacobsen

#anything #architect #because #begin #building

Man makes plans . . . and God laughs. ↗

— Michael Chabon

#futility #humor

Indeed if fish had fish-lore and Wise-fish, it is probable that the business of anglers would be very little hindered. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#futility #wisdom #business

Facebook is such a basic utility. It's something that is such a part of peoples' lives, I think it's hard to imagine it going away. ↗

— Sean Parker

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Even at that time the hope of leaving behind messages in bottles on the flood of barbarism bursting on Europe was an amiable illusion: the desperate letters stuck in the mud of the spirit of rejuvenesence and were worked up by a band of Noble Human-Beings and other riff-raff into highly artistic but inexpensive wall-adornments. Only since then has progress in communications really got into its stride. Who, in the end, is to take it amiss if even the freest of free spirits no longer write for an imaginary posterity, more trusting, if possible, than even their contemporaries, but only for the dead God? ↗

— Theodor W. Adorno

#futility #god #writing #communication

Talking about one's feelings defeats the purpose of having those feelings. Once you try to put the human experience into words, it becomes little more than a spectator sport. Everything must have a cause, and a name. Every random thought must have a root in something else. ↗

— Derek Landy

#feelings #futility #language #psychiatry #psychoanalysis