“Almost nothing in Perl serves a single purpose.”

“It serves the purpose of not serving a purpose, surely quite a valid one.”

“It serves a purpose.”

“It is improper, to expressly pursue the Urlinie in performance and to single out its tones… for the purpose of communicating the Urlinie to the listener." Rather, "for the performer, the Urlinie provides, first of all, a sense of direction. It serves a somewhat equivalent function to that which a road map serves for a mountain climber.”

“All power is the same. Magic. Physical strength. Economic strength. Political strength. It all serves a single purpose-it gives its possessor a broader spectrum of choices. It creates alternative courses of action.”

“Goods can serve many other purposes besides purchasing money, but money can serve no other purpose besides purchasing goods.”

“The philosophers likewise assume that in Nature there is nothing in vain, so that everything that is not the product of human industry serves a certain purpose, which may be known or unknown to us.”

“Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose”

“There is no doubt… Dadabhai served his country with a sacrifice and singleness of purpose which it may be rightly said, without exaggeration, was rare. A devout follower of Zoroaster, he faithfully followed the ethics of that Great Prophet - pure in thought, word and deed.”

“We're all liars when it serves our purpose.”