#useful

The utmost thing is the user experience, to have the most useful experience. ↗

— Marissa Mayer

#most #thing #useful #user #utmost

If reincarnation is a useful biological idea it is certain that somewhere in the universe it will happen. ↗

— Kary Mullis

#certain #happen #idea #reincarnation #somewhere

The characters you refer to as predatory and unsavory are useful. They're the ones who make a novel into a thriller. They're active, and most of the common virtues, the signs of a good person, are not. ↗

— Thomas Perry

#characters #common #good #good person #into

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

Sometimes in my class I have people come in and do monologues inspired by people they know and I always find that to be useful to do specifics about somebody and then you're actually doing a character and not doing some random old lady or something. ↗

— Amy Poehler

#actually #always #character #class #come

Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority. ↗

— Henri Poincare

#combinations #consists #constructing #infinite #invention

The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful. ↗

— Henri Poincare

#because #delights #does #nature #scientist

I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way. ↗

— Sydney Pollack

#architecture #art #art form #aspect #certainly

Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in "Old Maid"; the player who is finally left with it has lost. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

#finally #get #left #like #lost

Our biggest challenge is to eliminate the popular perception that economists don't have anything useful to say. ↗

— Mark Zandi

#biggest #biggest challenge #challenge #economists #eliminate