I feel that I've had a happy life, not a very useful life, but a happy one.
Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.
Being a useful man has always seemed to me to be something truly hideous.
Things don't have purposes, as if the universe were a machine, where every part has a useful function. What's the function of a galaxy? I don't know if our life has a purpose and I don't see that it matters. What does matter is that we're a part. Like a thread in a cloth or a grass-blade in a field. It is and we are. What we do is like wind blowing on the grass.
Mrs. Zuppa was coming in from bingo just as I was leaving the building. "Looks like you're going to work," she said, leaning heavily on her cane. "What are you packin'?" "A thirty-eight. " "I like a nine-millimeter myself. " "A nine's good. " "Easier to use a semiautomatic after you've had hip replacement and you walk with a cane," she said. One of those useful pieces of information to file away and resurrect when I turn eighty-three.
For example, there are numbers of chemists who occupy themselves exclusively with the study of dyestuffs. They discover facts that are useful to scientific chemistry; but they do not rank as genuine scientific men. The genuine scientific chemist cares just as much to learn about erbium-the extreme rarity of which renders it commercially unimportant-as he does about iron. He is more eager to learn about erbium if the knowledge of it would do more to complete his conception of the Periodic Law, which expresses the mutual relations of the elements.
Things that are complex are not useful, Things that are useful are simple.
Whatever you've learned becomes truly useful to you only once it has become second nature.
My problem is how to find the best way of being useful.
The best graphics are about the useful and important, about life and death, about the universe. Beautiful graphics do not traffic with the trivial.
Remembering that life can be full of surprises is useful in any part of your life. You can try a new way of singing a song you've performed for years, a new way of showing your family your love for them, or a new recipe. Don't just play the licks you know. We're all improvising all the time - it's good to recognize that and embrace it.
Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
Understanding different planets in their environments is still really important. So if these planets are dead lifeless worlds, it will still be useful for us.
Do something. Do something small. Do something small but useful. Do something small but useful now.
I think there's a real tension between capitalism and morality. That's not to say these systems aren't powerful and useful, but to assume that capitalism can somehow assure moral behavior or character, that's just a pipe dream.
We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
Art is as useful as bread.
I have enough trouble with useful information, never mind being burdened with what is useless.
I think we have to do everything that's useful. We're doctors. Our job is to tell the truth. And it doesn't have to be embellished in any way.
All companies would be better off if they stopped trying to be amazing and just focused on being useful.