Utility Function Quotes

#1. All the asylum clothing is made by the patients, but sewing does not employ one's mind. After several months' confinement the thoughts of the busy world grow faint, and all the poor prisoners can do is to sit and ponder over their hopeless fate.

Nellie Bly

#2. Because I worked as a newspaper reporter for about 14 years before attempting my first novel, I learned to write under almost any circumstances- by candle light, in longhand, in African villages where there was no power, under shelling in Kurdistan.

Geraldine Brooks

#3. We have come to accept bigger and bigger things as meaning greater and greater efficiency, more and more prosperity and more and more freedom. The two do not go together of necessity ...

Eleanor Roosevelt

#4. I've always moved between media. Some ideas just work better in some media than others.

Warren Ellis

#5. Along with a dozen other students I had dissected a human cadaver and sorted its contents by size, color, function, and weight. There was nothing pleasant about the experience. Its only consolation was its truth and its only virtue was its utility.

Robert Charles Wilson

#6. The basis of the free market is anytime you can generate revenue or profit, you've created value in excess of the resources you consume in a society. That's probably the most unbiased utility function there is, as opposed to someone's opinion.

Michael J. Saylor

#7. To educate people for peace, we can use words or we can speak with our lives.

Nhat Hanh

#8. In the end one only experiences oneself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#9. The thing is girls will always say you're lying when you say you had sex with them when you're lying about having sex with them.

Doug Benson

#10. I love horses. I spent seven years as a racing commissioner on a horse-racing board.

Bo Derek

#11. Whenever the investor sold out in an upswing as soon as the top level of the previous well-recognized bull market was reached, he had a chance in the next bear market to buy back at one third (or better) below his selling price.

Benjamin Graham

#12. The problem in our society and in our schools is to inclulcate, without overdoing it, the notion of education, as in the Latin educere
to lead, to bring out what is in someone rather than merely to indoctrinate him/her from the outside. (89)

Joseph Campbell

#13. Whenever you play dance music, it serves a function. It becomes a utility; you have to worry about the tempos and what you're going to play for people. But when you're playing for listening, you're free.

Stan Kenton

#14. Willing sets you free: that is the true doctrine of will and freedom
thus Zarathustra instructs you.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#15. Several medical professional organizations acknowledge the utility of opioid therapy and many case series and large surveys report satisfactory reductions in pain, improvement in function and minimal risk of addiction.

Andrew Rosenblum

#16. Language, as we know, is full of illogicalities.

Gunnar Myrdal

#17. If you broke Elena's heart, Star Wars would spill out. This was a holy day for her
it was a cosmic event. This was her planets lining up. (Tatooine, Coruscant, Hoth.)

Rainbow Rowell

#18. 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 ligitimate goals of his life.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#19. If a married couple with children has fifteen minutes of uninterrupted, non-logistical, non-problem-solving talk every day, I would put them in the top 5% of all married couples. It's an extraordinary achievement.

William J Doherty

#20. His heavy-lidded gaze reflected a languor that had nothing to do with having just awakened, and there was no doubt what was on his mind. But this is no safe cherry picker, Gwen thought, growing more concerned by the moment.
This man looks like a cherry tree chopper-downer.

Karen Marie Moning