#utility

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The fishes are also employed for the same purpose on any yard, which happens to be sprung or fractured. Thus their form, application, and utility are exactly like those of the splinters applied to a broken limb in surgery.


William Falconer


#any #application #applied #broken #employed

Failures of perspective in decision-making can be due to aspects of the social utility paradox, but more often result from simple mistakes caused by inadequate thought.


Herman Kahn


#caused #decision-making #due #failures #inadequate

How senseless is everything that can ever be written, done, or thought, when such things are possible. It must be all lies and of no account when the culture of a thousand years could not prevent this stream of blood being poured out, these torture-chambers in their hundreds of thousands. A hospital alone shows what war is.


Erich Maria Remarque


#war #torture

The value and utility of any experiment are determined by the fitness of the material to the purpose for which it is used, and thus in the case before us it cannot be immaterial what plants are subjected to experiment and in what manner such experiment is conducted.


Gregor Mendel


#before #cannot #case #conducted #determined

There is, in the Army, a little known but very important activity appropriately called Fatigue. Fatigue, in the Army, is the very necessary cleaning and repairing of the aftermath of living. Any man who has ever owned a gun has known Fatigue, when, after fifteen minutes in the woods and perhaps three shots at an elusive squirrel, he has gone home to spend three-quarters of an hour cleaning up his piece so that it will be ready next time he goes to the woods. Any woman who has ever cooked a luscious meal and ladled it out in plates upon the table has known Fatigue, when, after the glorious meal is eaten, she repairs to the kitchen to wash the congealed gravy from the plates and the slick grease from the cooking pots so they will be ready to be used this evening, dirtied, and so washed again. It is the knowledge of the unendingness and of the repetitious uselessness, the do it up so it can be done again, that makes Fatigue fatigue.


James Jones


#chores #domesticity #fatigue #futility #repetition

Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.


Thomas A. Edison


#i #invent #proof #sale #sell

People forget already how much utility they get out of the Internet - how much utility they get out of e-mail, how much utility they get out of even simple things like brochureware online.


Jeff Bezos


#e-mail #even #forget #get #how

I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.


Robert Browning


#beauty #end #garner #i #laws

Time after time have nations, ay, and rich and strong nations, learned in the arts, been, and passed away to be forgotten, so that no memory of them remains. This is but one of several; for Time eats up the works of man.


H. Rider Haggard


#fallen-nations #futility #inevitability #knowledge #learning

The beautiful is as useful as the useful." He added after a moment’s silence, "Perhaps more so.


Victor Hugo


#utility #beauty