#useful

I think the Internet is absolutely extraordinary. It's very, very useful and I think one of the things we've got to do is make sure that the African continent gets on to that information super highway. ↗

— Thabo Mbeki

#african #continent #extraordinary #gets #got

I tend to discourage people from calling me 'Sir Ian,' because I don't like being separated out from the rest of the population. Of course, it can be useful if you're writing an official letter, like trying to get a visa or something passed through Parliament. They're impressed by these things. ↗

— Ian Mckellen

#being #calling #course #discourage #get

I have never personally seen a hand transplant that is more useful than a prosthesis. ↗

— Joe Murray

#i #more #never #personally #seen

Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge; history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will - are all gone. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#gone #higher #him #his #history

In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration". ↗

— Alan Perlis

#computing #definition #frustration #into #living

Cigarettes are an instant signifier in culture. It punctuates a joke, or puts that extra zing on a punch line. I like them as a prop. I think it can be really useful for character and texture and contrast and all of that. ↗

— Martha Plimpton

#cigarettes #contrast #culture #extra #i

I think it's useful, as a famous person, to have as little separation between the perception of you and how you really are - because otherwise I'd be sitting here thinking I'm keeping secrets, and wondering when you're going to find out. ↗

— Daniel Radcliffe

#between #famous #famous person #find #going

I feel a big obligation to the audience, almost in a moral sense, to say something useful. If I'm going to spend a year of my life on these things, I want something that I feel that strongly about. ↗

— Harold Ramis

#almost #audience #big #feel #going

The beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to itself. ↗

— Victor Cousin

#cannot #good #holy #itself #leads

The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government. ↗

— Sam Houston

#community #diffused #education #essential #free