Mordechai Ben-Ari (1948) Israeli computer scientist
Source: Just a Theory: Exploring the Nature of Science (2005), Chapter 3, “Words Scientists Don’t Use: At Least Not the Way You Do” (p. 46)
“The walking stick serves the purpose of an advertisement that the bearer's hands are employed otherwise than in useful effort, and it therefore has utility as an evidence of leisure.”
Source: The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899), p. 148
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Theodore Dalrymple (1949) English doctor and writer
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“Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.”
George Orwell (1903–1950) English author and journalist
Gene Wolfe (1931–2019) American science fiction and fantasy writer
Volume 3, Ch. 13
Fiction, The Book of the Short Sun (1999–2001)
“You can use a spear for a walking stick, but it will not change its nature.”
Madeline Miller book The Song of Achilles
Variant: He is a weapon, a killer. Do not forget it. You can use a spear as a walking stick, but that will not change its nature.
Source: The Song of Achilles
“Public utility is often served by the injury of individuals.”
Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac (1597–1654) French author, best known for his epistolary essays
L'utilité publique se fait sou vent du dommage des particuliers.
Le Prince (1631), Chap. XVII.
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 101.
“Don’t utilize utilize. Use use.”
Larry King (1933) American television and radio host
How to Talk to Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere: The Secrets of Good Communication
“It serves the purpose of not serving a purpose, surely quite a valid one.”
Peter Greenaway (1942) British film director
In an interview in Artforum, Nov. 83
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