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There is nothing quite so useless, as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be done at all.
This is a service station, we offer service. There is no higher purpose.
I like power and I like to use it.Power-- Sam Rayburn
There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.
Increasingly being used for routine duties such as conducting liquor inspections and serving warrants.
When you would think,
"what was the use of it,"
you'll remember
something you can't grasp
and you'll wonder
what it was.
Some things are so useless one can't live without them.
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.
What users want is convenience and results.
We are driven by our necessities, which are driven by our situations, which are driven by our decisions, which surprisingly are driven by our necessities. So, what do we make of it? It all begins and ends with understanding the users' needs.
A vast technology has been developed to prevent, reduce, or terminate exhausting labor and physical damage. It is now dedicated to the production of the most trivial conveniences and comfort.
In the consumer economy taste is not the criterion in the marketing of expensive soft drinks, usability is not the primary criterion in the marketing of home and office appliances. We are surrounded with objects of desire, not objects of use.
Consider the useful agreeable, even though if were not.
I feel like a very efficient tool or weapon, used and in demand from moment to moment ...
Information wants to be useful.
Only useless things are indispensable.
If we don't understand our tools, then there is a danger we will become the tool of our tools. We think of ourselves as Google's customers, but really we're its products.
A science or an art may be said to be "useful" if its development increases, even indirectly, the material well-being and comfort of men, it promotes happiness, using that word in a crude and commonplace way.
A well-conceived product excels at what it does. It's close to being functionally flawless - like a Ziploc bag, a radio from Tivoli Audio, a Philips Sonicare toothbrush, a Nespresso coffee maker or Google's home page.
It takes use to make knowledge worthwhile.
Service drives a lot of my decisions.
Take what's useful, discard what is not.
System: Save yourself time, energy and money.
Chapter 5-"Now THAT'S Leverage" discusses the idea of "software leverage," where reusing components results in greater impact. We see how the use of shell scripts achieves a high degree of leverage.
As much use as tits on a fish.
heavy demolition unit.
As useful as an unhappy artist. As useless as a happy philosopher.
Every thing is of use to a houskeeper.
For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.
The hours that ordinary people waste, extraordinary people leverage.
I'm fortunate in that I'm what you call a utility player, in that I can take a scene, if there's five or six minor characters in a scene, that need voice and personality [and] I can supply those characters.
Curiosity is the ultimate power tool.
It's useful because it's beautiful.
One of the things that has happened with technology is that it can only be helpful if it is useful, of course, but it can only be helpful too if it's accessible, and it can only be helpful if it's affordable.
I am a maker of useful things.
There is a tool for every task, and a task for every tool.
There's a movement for simplifying your life: purchase less stuff, own a few things that are very high quality that last a long time, and that are multifunctional.
What the customer buys and considers value is never a product. It is always utility, that is, what a product or a service does for the customer.
Anything you maximize yields in realization of its purpose
The most complete seems lacking. Yet in use it is not exhausted.
Like all power, it simply exists. It's the user who determines what use it will be put to.
Purpose is that power that will propel you to get out of bed each morning and push you to make your Dream come true.-RVM
Familiarity trumps functionality.
All men know the utility of useful things; but they do not know the utility of futility.
What is your purpose?
This is a highly reliable power source. Being a large credit card processor, doing $6 million an hour in transactions, our computers have to work.
When purpose is not known, abuse is inevitable
The value of a well-made and well-used tool lies not only in what it produces for us but what it produces in us.
Before we choose our tools and technology, we must choose our dreams and values, for some technologies serve them, while others make them more unobtainable.
I am very seldom interested in applications. I am more interested in the elegance of a problem. Is it a good problem, an interesting problem?
Useless, like a revolution.
Things that are complex are not useful, Things that are useful are simple.
The one thing perhaps that technology hasn't always given us is a sense of how to make the wisest use of technology.
An important question to ask is, 'Where and when did decoration and utility first meet?
We now know that something between 85 and 90 percent of most software product features are unwanted and unneeded by customers. That is an enourmous ammount of waste of time and money that ends up on the floor.
Its selection and vetting process. The workers, for their part, can hope for a steady flow of jobs and prompt payment with minimal fuss. Handy's computer system also tries to schedule each worker's jobs in such a way as to minimise travel time.
These papers of the day have uses more adequate to the purposes of common life than more pompous and durable volumes.
The smaller the function, the greater the management.
Tools refer to one another to finally refer to our care for existing. In turning on a bathroom switch, we open up the entire ontological problem
Practicality is overrated.
He suddenly found himself on the precipice of utility.
Everyone is useful for a specific task.
Our services serve a specific need.
To use is necessary. And if you can't be used, then you're useless.
The most useful tool in your life is your character.
Are you looking for gold, friend? Look around you; anything useful to you is pure gold, pure silver!
Chairs are useful
Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.
Every technology is both a burden and a blessing; not either-or, but this-and-that.
Current utility and historical origin are different subjects.
Peter Drucker said, "There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all."2
The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it.
The defining qualities are about use: ease and simplicity. Caring beyond the functional imperative, we also acknowledge that products have a significance way beyond traditional views of function.
Today's greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.
There is no useful thing which may not be turned to an injurious purpose.
I don't know how to fix a car. If the car breaks down, and the gas tank does not say "E", I'm screwed. But if the gas tank says "E", I get all cocky - "I've got this one, don't worry." So I get out the toolbox AKA wallet.
Where utility ends and decoration begins is perfection.
Many of the familiar little things that we use every day have typically evolved over a period of time to a state of familiarity. They balance form and function, elegance and economy, success and failure in ways that are not only acceptable, but also admirable.
Technology and tools are useful and powerful when they are your servant and not your master.
Utility is the true criterion of beauty.
eminently practical,
We put the fun in functional.
Very important functions can be performed very wastefully and often are.
Not everything worth keeping needs to be useful
On a purely technical side, I'm really very happy with how Linux gets used in a very wide set of different areas. It's important for development.
Everyone is useful for specific task.
Clay is molded to form a cup, But it is on its non-being that the utility of the cup depends. Doors and windows are cut out to make a room, But it is on its non-being that the utility of the room depends. Therefore turn being into advantage, and turn non-being into utility.
What kind of power was it if it would never be used?
Is this useful?" It's a simple, elegant corrective to my "price of security" motto. It's okay to worry, plot, and plan, he's saying - but only until it's not useful anymore.
technical marketers,
I aspire to be useful.
I don't know how to use appliances. I mean, I use the coffee maker. But that's it.
At URBN, we see ourselves as customer specialists, a collection of brands, each one specializing in one particular customer group, a particular lifestyle or a life stage. We offer her things she wants in environments that inspire her. We talk to her and listen to her ideas and opinions.
A minimum put to good use is enough for anything.
RAM: This gives guys a way of deciding whose computer has the biggest, studliest memory. That's important, because the more memory a computer has, the faster it can produce error messages.
Logic sometimes makes monsters. For half a century we have seen a mass of bizarre functions which appear to be forced to resemble as little as possible honest functions which serve some purpose.
The best feature of a product should really be the customer service.
If I were useful, you wouldn't know it was me.
If this power could be used for good, it wouldn't be this power.
I know a helluva lot.
I'm not the only one who knows these things.
Many people know more than I do. That's fortunately not my problem.
My problem is what I am supposed to use it for.
What do I do with it?
It's confusing.