Basically, our goal is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful.
I find that life, day by day, is composed of at least one joy, one problem and one sorrow. Then there are the smaller ingredients: you always learn something, whether useful or harmful - that is difficult to analyze until later; you always give something; you alwayou always grow a little in one direction or another.
You will observe with concern how long a useful truth may be known, and exist, before it is generally received and practiced on.
If we were living back in 1789, your musket would be really useful in a military conflict. If you were called up to service, they said bring your musket. And indeed, the First Congress passed a law. You want to know the first gun control law in America? First Congress passed a law mandating that all able-bodied men must own a musket.
[George] Orwell's essays. It's got it all. Great writing, a worldview that I find interesting and useful, and most of it timelessly true.
Lecturing Brooks was as useful as lecturing a cat.
I think the term 'conceptual art' is a useful term for writers, a basket to put people in, like Pop Art or Impressionism or whatever.
The nazis slaughtered millions because they dehumanized their victims. . . but when it comes to dehumanizing victims the most useful and most widely used tool throughout history is, of course, religion.
A great artist is never a closed subject, but this catalogue is a milestone production, as useful as it is beautiful.
A mere collector of supposed facts is as useful as a collector of matchboxes.
Art is good, bad, boring, ugly, useful to us or not.
The above proposition is occasionally useful.
True education is that which proves useful in life and makes you industrious.
Who cares what a man's style is, so it is intelligible,--as intelligible as his thought. Literally and really, the style is no more than the stylus, the pen he writes with; and it is not worth scraping and polishing, and gilding, unless it will write his thoughts the better for it. It is something for use, and not to look at. The question for us is, not whether Pope had a fine style, wrote with a peacock's feather, but whether he uttered useful thoughts.
Hollwood creates useful entertainment. There are millions of people on earth who need distraction and American cinema fulfills that function.
Please yourself, not others. . . It must first work for you if it is ever to be useful to others.
Do not be impatient for impatience is of the flesh. Do not try different methods because they are useful solely in helping the flesh. We must distrust the flesh entirely.
All companies would be better off if they stopped trying to be amazing and just focused on being useful.
Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness. If you think of yourself only, you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development, which is spiritual expansion through thought for others.
The exercises of practical life are formative activities, a work of adaptation to the environment. Such adaptation to the environment and efficient functioning therein is the very essence of a useful education.