#useful

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#commons #deal #does #great #great deal

He gains everyone's approval who mixes the pleasant with the useful. ↗

— Horace

#everyone #gains #mixes #pleasant #useful

Some people are like wheelbarrows; useful only when pushed, and very easily upset. The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing. ↗

— Henry S. Haskins

#head #his #like #nods #nothing

Since signing with Universal, I have been working closely with Gary Ross, the director, producer and screenwriter. We have spent many hours on the phone, and I've been sending him information and items that have been useful to the writing process. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

#closely #director #gary #gary ross #him

New technology is useful, but it's inefficient and ugly; it knows it'll be obsolete by lunchtime tomorrow, so it has no incentive to be anything else. ↗

— Tom Holt

#else #incentive #inefficient #knows #lunchtime

The usefulness of cow-peas and soy-beans as human food has been recognized only recently in this country. ↗

— David F. Houston

#country #food #human #only #recently

The blind must not only be fed and housed and cared for; they must learn to make thir lives useful to the community. ↗

— Julia Ward Howe

#cared #community #fed #housed #learn

To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other departments of science, affords useful assistance. ↗

— Charles Babbage

#assistance #branches #chemistry #chosen #departments

Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness. ↗

— E. T. Bell

#art #creative #feeling #fitness #generality

The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it. ↗

— Edward de Bono

#analyze #describe #get #make #model