— Lin Yutang, buch The Importance of Living
Quelle: The Importance of Living (1937), p. 153. Often quoted as: "If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live."
„If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live“
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— Luis Miguel Puerto Rican singer; music producer 1970
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aipyRne6dso
Interview in Mexico, 1995
„[Speaking of computers] But they are useless. They can only give you answers.“
— Pablo Picasso Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer 1881 - 1973
As discussed in this entry from Quote Investigator http://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/11/05/computers-useless/#more-2932, the origin seems to be the article "Pablo Picasso: A Composite Interview" by William Fifield which appeared in The Paris Review 32, Summer-Fall 1964, and collected a number of interviews Fifield had done with Picasso.
Common later variant: "Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." This variant seems to have arisen in the 1980s, the earliest known appearance in a book is Herman Feshbach, "Reflections on the Microprocessor Revolution: A Physicist's Viewpoint", in Man and Technology (1983), ed. Bruce M. Adkins, where the attribution is described as "rumoured". http://books.google.com/books?id=9EohAQAAIAAJ&q=Picasso
1960s
— Theodore Dalrymple English doctor and writer 1949
CBC Ideas Interview (podcast) (September 25, 2006)
— Horace Bushnell American theologian 1802 - 1876
Quelle: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 124.
„A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.“
— Mignon McLaughlin American journalist 1913 - 1983
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
„Lord, let me not live to be useless!“
— John Wesley Christian theologian 1703 - 1791
Journal (22 December 1763)
General sources
— Aleister Crowley poet, mountaineer, occultist 1875 - 1947
Quelle: Magical and Philosophical Commentaries on The Book of the Law
„To a poet nothing can be useless.“
— Samuel Johnson, buch The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
Quelle: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759), Chapter 10
— Carlos Castaneda, buch The Wheel of Time
Quelle: The Wheel of Time: Shamans of Ancient Mexico, Their Thoughts About Life, Death and the Universe], (1998), Quotations from "Journey to Ixtlan" (Chapter 8)
„God grant that I may never live to be useless!“
— John Wesley Christian theologian 1703 - 1791
Quelle: How To Pray: The Best of John Wesley on Prayer
