In computing turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word 'frustration'.

I won't compare ants and people but ants give us a useful model of how single members of a community can become so organized that they end up resembling in effect one big collective brain. Our own exploding population and communication technology are leading us that way.

The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness.

I think at a child's birth if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift that gift should be curiosity.

I like physics. I think it is the best science out of all three of them because generally it's more useful. You learn about speed and velocity and time and that's all clever stuff.

Wealth beauty and fame are transient. When those are gone little is left except the need to be useful.

Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.

Art is good bad boring ugly useful to us or not.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

I mean certainly writing painting photography dance architecture there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way.