The rise of the social web promised a new era of personalization for globe-trotting. But like many things born online, as popularity of the new tools increased, efficiency and usefulness began to decrease.
Film wise, I invariably look at my work and reckon I could have done it better. I'm also conscious that I'm in a profession where we get more praise than we should compared to the usefulness of what we do.
Education is more than Pisa. Particularly musical education. We also need education and training for more than reasons of usefulness and marketability.
The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness.
In the early West, law and politics were parallel roads to usefulness as well as distinction.
Ways have to be found to maintain university research untramelled by requirements of forecasting application or usefulness.
New York, like the Soviet Union, has this universal usefulness: It makes you glad you live elsewhere.
I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work.
Indeed, I am sometimes inclined to doubt whether some men consider youth as rational and intelligent beings, with minds capable of expansion, and talents formed for usefulness.
The nature of an innovation is that it will arise at a fringe where it can afford to become prevalent enough to establish its usefulness without being overwhelmed by the inertia of the orthodox system.
