For an infrequent action to become a habit, the user must perceive a high degree of utility, either from gaining pleasure or avoiding pain.
Any item in your wardrobe should satisfy one of two criteria: utility and joy.
Whoever, in the pursuit of science, seeks after immediate practical utility, may generally rest assured that he will seek in vain.
Truth and right are above utility in all realms of thought and action.
Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.
Utility is the true criterion of beauty.
Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.
Psychologists call this habituation, economists call it declining marginal utility, and the rest of us call it marriage.
Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.
Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.
The utility of the robot needs to come first. It's business model over technology.
A good man will never suspect his friends of shady actions: this is part of his goodness. A good man will never be suspected by the public of using his goodness to screen villains: this is part of his utility
Once you prove yourself, that you're a utility player, they're going to contact you and say, hey, yeah, we need you for a film next Thursday at Fox or Sony or whatever. You kind of get a reputation.
I don't want to convince you that mathematics is useful. It is, but utility is not the only criterion for value to humanity. Above all, I want to convince you that mathematics is beautiful, surprising, enjoyable, and interesting. In fact, mathematics is the closest that we humans get to true magic. How else to describe the patterns in our heads that - by some mysterious agency - capture patterns of the universe around us? Mathematics connects ideas that otherwise seem totally unrelated, revealing deep similarities that subsequently show up in nature.
Some people in the utility industry have called it 'circling the drain'
And a utility belt! I'm like an asthmatic Batman!
Is beauty enhanced or adulterated by utility?
Facebook's successor will no doubt provide an easy 'migration utility' through which you can bring all your so-called friends with you, if you even want to.
All men know the utility of useful things; but they do not know the utility of futility.
To treat programming scientifically, it must be possible to specify the required properties of programs precisely. Formality is certainly not an end in itself. The importance of formal specifications must ultimately rest in their utility -in whether or not they are used to improve the quality of software or to reduce the cost of producing and maintaining software.
