The business of a scientific school is the dissemination of useful knowledge, and this is a noble enterprise and indispensable withal; society can not exist unless it goes on.
I take it for what it is, and sometimes the criticism is actually useful and constructive and actually informs what I do, but most of the time, it’s sort of mindless, or they’re receiving something on a different frequency than I was sending it.
I’m not an extreme tree-hugger. I do believe trees grow and are a useful agricultural product that can be harvested without damaging the ecology and wildlife.
The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant.
There’s nothing like having a football coach yelling at you at homecoming in front of a bunch of people. You do kind of get used to being inflappable in front of all that heated emotion. At times, that’s very useful in business.
A constitution, in the American sense of the word, is a written instrument by which the fundamental powers of the government are established, limited, and defined, and by which these powers are distributed among several departments, for their more safe and useful exercise, for the benefit of the body politic.
Our initial idea with Stripe was that for people like us – those building apps and websites – it was incredibly difficult to take payments. So with an open mind, and maybe a useful lack of knowledge about the industry, we started building a payment product.
I think people ought to do what they feel useful at the time. If I do things because I ought to do them, I switch off.
I feel a big obligation to the audience, almost in a moral sense, to say something useful. If I’m going to spend a year of my life on these things, I want something that I feel that strongly about.
The fact that we don’t have that biologic pressure to have highly polyphasic sleep, I think, probably tells us something in terms of, truly, whether it’s useful or not.
Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.
Anything that’s been useful to me as a person has been useful to me as an actor. Anything in the interest of your happiness will affect your work. The more comfortable you become in your own skin, the better you are as another identity.
How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?
I’m not like a gearhead in the sense that I’m not all that useful under the hood, but I am a, I would say, a gear enthusiast. I love to drive anything; I love to drive cars I’m not good at driving with crazy shifters.
I want to be helpful to the charities I support. I think you can dilute it, the more you do. You have to be a bit strong about what you do… otherwise, you risk spreading yourself a bit thin, and you can be less useful.
I have no problems with private schools. I graduated from one and so did my mother. Private schools are useful and we often use public funds to pay for their infrastructures and other common needs.
In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word ‘frustration’.
It seems that singing is the only thing I’ve been able to do and fortunately it seems to be useful!
Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution.
The convertible note is a useful and common financing structure in Silicon Valley. It’s a form of debt that is really more a type of equity – one where the valuation hasn’t been determined yet.
Being an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things.
I’d like to do a television show that is encouraging, useful, and clean, and I’d like to go up against Entertainment Tonight and beat it.
We’re all concerned about sustainable energy. If we could recycle waste heat to generate energy, we could use it for something useful.
To avoid long-term deleterious effects, game developers must commit to stop facilitating a culture in which crunch is the norm. The occasional long night or weekend at the office can be useful and even exhilarating, but as a constant, it is damaging.
This is where the block chain is most useful and revolutionary: It helps us to overcome the problem of mutual trust in exchange, which will, in turn, make many of our modern central institutions unnecessary.
There is this church that I go to a lot in New York. I’m not religious but I love lighting candles and stuff. I find it useful.
In many cases, the line between a thriller and a crime novel has become too blurred to be useful.
While knowledge may provide useful point of reference, it cannot become a force to guide the future.
The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
If there was a time when ‘The Ecologist’ appeared not to be making a difference at all, not doing something useful, I wouldn’t do ‘The Ecologist,’ but I think it is useful.
