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3. “For a desert island, one would choose a good dictionary rather than the greatest literary masterpiece imaginable, for, in relation to its readers, a dictionary is absolutely passive and may legitimately be read in an infinite number of ways.”
W.H. Auden
Language, Utility, Imagination, Reading, Flexibility
4. “Even when she had to make some one a present of the kind called ‘useful,’ when she had to give an armchair or some table-silver or a walking-stick, she would choose ‘antiques,’ as though their long desuetude had effaced from them any semblance of utility and fitted them rather to instruct us in the lives of the men of other days than to serve the common requirements of our own.” Marcel Proust Antiques, Utility, Old Lives, Practical Gifts, Historical Insights, Timeless Elegance
16. “A utility can handle up to 20% of production from solar and that helps the grid because it produces electricity when needed. Solar power peaks in the middle of the day and that's also when air conditioning is running and businesses are operating, so power production matches usage.” Elon Musk Solar Power, Utility, Energy, Sustainability, Efficiency
22. “It seems to me that education has a two-fold function to perform in the life of man and in society: the one is utility and the other is culture. Education must enable a man to become more efficient, to achieve with increasing facility the legitimate goals of his life.” Martin Luther King Jr. Education, Purpose, Utility, Culture, Fulfillment
Utility Quotes by Famous Authors
3. “For a desert island, one would choose a good dictionary rather than the greatest literary masterpiece imaginable, for, in relation to its readers, a dictionary is absolutely passive and may legitimately be read in an infinite number of ways.”
W.H. Auden Language, Utility, Imagination, Reading, Flexibility
4. “Even when she had to make some one a present of the kind called ‘useful,’ when she had to give an armchair or some table-silver or a walking-stick, she would choose ‘antiques,’ as though their long desuetude had effaced from them any semblance of utility and fitted them rather to instruct us in the lives of the men of other days than to serve the common requirements of our own.”
Marcel Proust Antiques, Utility, Old Lives, Practical Gifts, Historical Insights, Timeless Elegance
16. “A utility can handle up to 20% of production from solar and that helps the grid because it produces electricity when needed. Solar power peaks in the middle of the day and that's also when air conditioning is running and businesses are operating, so power production matches usage.”
Elon Musk Solar Power, Utility, Energy, Sustainability, Efficiency
22. “It seems to me that education has a two-fold function to perform in the life of man and in society: the one is utility and the other is culture. Education must enable a man to become more efficient, to achieve with increasing facility the legitimate goals of his life.”
Martin Luther King Jr. Education, Purpose, Utility, Culture, Fulfillment
