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Last updated on November 17, 2024.
On two occasions, utility executives I'd never met had looked at me and said, 'I thought you'd be bigger!' In a way, I took that as a compliment!
Possessing utility, commodities derive their exchangeable value from two sources: from their scarcity, and from the quantity of labour required to obtain them.
Nature has made men free and equal. The distinctions necessary for social order are only founded on general utility.
My own suspicion is that a stand-alone artificial mind will be more a tool of narrow utility than something especially apocalyptic.
Happy 60th Birthday, good buddy.
How are you dealing with your awful debility,
lessened utility and loss of mobility?
In the 21st century, we must rethink broadband as a basic utility alongside gas, electric, and water.
I'm a Utilitarian, so I don't see the rule against lying as absolute; it's always subject to some overriding utility which may prevent its exercise.
Philosophy as practice does not mean its restriction to utility or applicability, that is, to what serves morality or produces serenity of soul.
The walking stick serves the purpose of an advertisement that the bearer's hands are employed otherwise than in useful effort, and it therefore has utility as an evidence of leisure.
Facebook's successor will no doubt provide an easy 'migration utility' through which you can bring all your so-called friends with you, if you even want to.
One of the peculiarities of economics is that it still rests on a behavioral assumption-rational utility maximization-that has long since been rejected by sociologists and psychologists.
You can make great money in a utility type of business by borrowing cheaply and lending sensibly but that's not what's being done.
Whoever, in the pursuit of science, seeks after immediate practical utility, may generally rest assured that he will seek in vain.
Art indeed is a term referring to the social source and to the social utility of creative acts.
I love the idea of making records that people can use, records that have a sense of utility.
...the realm of freedom does not commence until the point is passed where labor under the compulsion of necessity and of external utility is required.
I really do think artists are the most important people on the planet, and if what I do is a utility and helps them, then that makes me happy. I want to be helpful.
A photo app is a utility. It's like comparing 'Twitter' to Microsoft Word. If you want to be an author, you're not always going to constrain yourself to 140 characters.
Explaining why he was forced to cut a utility player: You just got caught in a position where you have no position.
I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.
What makes my approach special is that I do different things. I do jazz, blues, country music and so forth. I do them all, like a good utility man.
The sceptics assert, though absurdly, that the origin of all religious worship was derived from the utility of inanimate objects,as the sun and moon, to the support and well-being of mankind.
Nothing teems But hateful docks, rough thistles, kecksies, burs, Losing both beauty and utility.
Sometimes, when I couldn’t afford to pay the utility bill at the end of the month, I was forced to read by the light of the stories themselves.
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.
Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.
Nothing can be more hopeless than to attempt to explain this similarity of pattern in members of the same class, by utility or by the doctrine of final causes.
That choice to be ready to reject all other purposes, in favor of the possibilities of language freed from utility, is when the writer becomes a poet.
I rank myself no higher in the scheme of things than a policeman - whose utility would disappear if there were no criminals.
I'm obsessed with the form of a toolbox. The idea of a portable kit that has everything you might need ignites something inside me. It's like Batman's utility belt.
Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.
I'm a utility infielder. There's always somebody who is better at a specific task than I am, but I can pitch in at a bunch of different things as needed.
In the process of helping some (perhaps most) people to more utility and justice, the state imposes on civil society a system of interdictions and commands.
The United States needs modern, flexible, light-touch network regulation, not a one-size-fits-all utility model from the 1930s.
The university is a vast public utility which turns out future workers in today's vineyard, the military-industrial complex.
Clean energy isn't just good for the planet; it's good for consumers' monthly utility bills and for the economy.
Regarding wetsuits, I always liked the Marilyn Minter quote, 'Everything's better when wet,' injecting some style into sports utility.
A true fad has little utility beyond its entertainment value. Think of the Mood Ring, the Pet Rock, the Slinky, Silly Putty.
The difficulties of economics are mainly the difficulties of conceiving clearly and fully the conditions of utility.
The assumption that individuals act objectively in accordance with purely mathematical dictates to maximize their gain or utility cannot be sustained by empirical observation.
My principal professional objective is to introduce intelligence as the ubiquitous utility. I'd like to be the Thomas Edison of intelligence.
In my life, I'm an expert on a few things. Losing close elections is one of them. Electric utility regulation is another. Neither is a barrel of laughs, but both have their moments.
Beauty is assailed from two directions - by the cult of ugliness in the arts, and by the cult of utility in everyday life.
Music is essentially useless, as life is; but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.
Modern science has its value in terms of utility, but it cannot open up existence to human experience.
Repeated reflection and inquiry have led me to the somewhat novel opinion, that value depends entirely upon utility.
Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort.
Facebook's successor will no doubt provide an easy "migration utility" through which you can bring all your so-called friends with you, if you even want to.
Reddit is not a public utility or a public square; it's a privately owned space on the Internet.
Timberland is an all-American brand focused on work, utility and the outdoors, that managed to find a place in the fashion world as well
The best you can hope for in this life is that your delusions are benign and your compulsions have utility.
For an infrequent action to become a habit, the user must perceive a high degree of utility, either from gaining pleasure or avoiding pain.
There's simply no better company out there doing mobile travel apps with the same level of design sensibility and utility as Mobiata.
Woman is born free and lives equal to man in her rights. Social distinctions can be based only on the common utility.
What was a profitable business in one era can become a public utility and a recognized public good in the next.
The calculus of utility aims at supplying the ordinary wants of man at the least cost of labour.
It is the peculiar beauty of this method, gentlemen, and one which endears it to the really scientific mind, that under no circumstance can it be of the smallest possible utility.
Folk art has never been much about politics; it's about action and utility.
There are two principles of established acceptance in morals; first, that self-interest is the mainspring of all of our actions, and secondly, that utility is the test of their value.
Reddit is not a public utility or a public square; its a privately owned space on the Internet.