Quotes about uselessness

picture of Picasso

One of The Useless Pages fan sent this email containing Quotes about uselessness on Thu Oct 19 13:54:50 1995. The Useless WWW Pages were hosted @primus at that time.

Here are a few quotes I came across that you might be interested in.

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
– Pablo Picasso

If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly
useless manner, you have learned how to live.
– Lin Yutang

Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do,
doesn’t mean it’s useless.
– Thomas Alva Edison

It is better of course to know useless thinkgs than to know
nothing
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca

What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the matter
with the rich is uselessness.

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