Utility Quotes

“Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.”
― John Steinbeck

“The beautiful is as useful as the useful." He added after a moment’s silence, "Perhaps more so.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Being useful to others is not the same thing as being equal.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Obelisk Gate

“We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.

All art is quite useless.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“The order that our mind imagines is like a net, or like a ladder, built to attain something. But afterward you must throw the ladder away, because you discover that, even if it was useful, it was meaningless.”
― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

“The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest-Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure, and the absence of pain; by unhappiness, pain, and the privation of pleasure.”
― John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism

“[T]he scale of a man's evil is not entirely to be measured by its practical consequences. Men commit evil within the scope available to them.”
― Theodore Dalrymple, Our Culture, What's Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses

“She watched the tunnels as they flowed past: bare walls of concrete, a net of pipes and wires, a web of rails that went off into black holes where green and red lights hung as distant drops of color. There was nothing else to dilute it, so that one could admire naked purpose and the ingenuity that had achieved it.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“It is not a single cowardice that drives us into fiction's fantasies. We often fear that literature is a game we can't afford to play — the product of idleness and immoral ease. In the grip of that feeling it isn't life we pursue, but the point and purpose of life — its facility, its use.”
― William H. Gass, Fiction and the Figures of Life

“Where utility ends and decoration begins is perfection.”
― Jack Gardner, Words Are Not Things

“A simple statement is bound to be untrue. One that is not simple cannot be utilized.”
― Paul Valéry, The Collected Works of Paul Valéry, Vol. 14

“Vanity and ambition as education.- So long as a man has not yet become an instrument of general human utility let him be plagued by ambition; if that goal has been attained, however, if he is working with the necessity of a machine for the good of all, then let him be visited by vanity; it will humanize him and make him more sociable, endurable and indulgent in small things, now that ambition (to render him useful) has finished roughhewing him.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

“As much as I dislike utility companies, I do like having electricity!”
― Steven Magee

“Plants looking like they were sunburned on one side was a common report after utility company wireless radiation smart meters were deployed around the world. Similar to sunburn, the smart meters were radiation burning the plants!”
― Steven Magee

“Having worked at a large electrical utility site, I now refuse to work with electrical utility companies due to the extensive negative experiences I had there.”
― Steven Magee

“The most dangerous electrical equipment I ever worked on was at one of the largest electrical utility company’s in the USA!”
― Steven Magee

“I have had so many negative interactions with electrical utility workers that I now avoid interacting with them!”
― Steven Magee

“As a Chartered Electrical Engineer working for one of the largest electrical utility company’s in the USA, I found I was working in an environment that my training told me was completely abnormal and dangerous!”
― Steven Magee

“I have mastered the art of the very low electricity bill!”
― Steven Magee

“I developed my police survival techniques during developing research on utility company corruption.”
― Steven Magee

“Your potential remains useless unless utilized.”
― Aloo Denish

“I worked for a utility electrical company and I was completely overloaded and overworked! I hated it!”
― Steven Magee

“The worst understaffed company I worked for was one of the largest electrical utility companies in the USA.”
― Steven Magee

“Your potential remains useless unless utilized.”
― Aloo Denish Obiero

“All possessions not at the same time beautiful
and useful are an affront to human dignity.”
― Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, Christian & Oriental Philosophy of Art Formerly: "Why Exhibit Works of Art?"

“The purpose of art is then to reveal a beauty
that we like or can be taught to like; the purpose of art is to give pleasure; the work of art as the source of pleasure is its own end; art is for art's sake.
We value the work for the pleasure to be derived from the sight, sound, or touch of its aesthetic surfaces; our conception of beauty is literally skin-deep; questions of utility and intelligibility rarely arise, and if they arise are dismissed as irrelevant.”
― Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, Christian & Oriental Philosophy of Art Formerly: "Why Exhibit Works of Art?"

“Industry without art is brutality. Art is specifically human. None of those primitive peoples, past or present, whose culture we affect to despise and propose to amend, has dispensed with art; from the stone age onwards, everything made by man, under whatever conditions of hardship or poverty, has been made by art to serve a double purpose, at once utilitarian and ideological.
It is we who, collectively speaking at least, command amply sufficient resources, and who do not shrink from wasting these resources, who have first proposed to make a division of art, one sort to be barely utilitarian, the other luxurious, and altogether omitting what was once the highest function of art, to express and to communicate ideas.”
― Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, Christian & Oriental Philosophy of Art Formerly: "Why Exhibit Works of Art?"

“Like many things in the USA, the electrical utility system was built on a low budget.”
― Steven Magee

“Wealth is how you make the most out of everything you have.”
― Khayri R.R. Woulfe

“I'm already part of something special. I'm helping to set up the new technology building at AOS. There are other ways to use Ike that don't involve going on secret missions and fighting. Our solar tech is great, but we need to keep innovating our technology to keep Nigeria safe.”
― Tọlá Okogwu, Onyeka and the Heroes of the Dawn