Henry Mayhew

Facts, according to my ideas, are merely the elements of truths, and not the truths themselves; of all matters there are none so utterly useless by themselves as your mere matters of fact.

English Journalist

Gaby Hoffmann

I'm basically useless in interviews because I don't remember anything. But I find it very peaceful, actually, because I have a sort of busy mind. I'm like, 'This is great!

American Actress

Giacomo Casanova

It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.

Italian Celebrity

Esther Williams

The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it.

George Ade

A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.

American Playwright

George S. Patton

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.

American General

Marlon Brando

I think to regret is useless in life. It belongs to the past.

American Actor

George Santayana

Music is essentially useless, as is life.

Spanish Philosopher

John Bradley-West

English Actor

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

German Writer

Use 'useless' to express frustration or disappointment in something's performance.

Negative Connotation

Use 'useless' when someone's attempt to help has no positive outcome or makes no difference.

Unhelpful Efforts

Combine 'useless' with words like 'completely' or 'utterly' to stress the total lack of effectiveness.

Extent of Uselessness

Use 'useless' to indicate something is impractical or serves no functional purpose at the moment.

Lack of Utility

Remember that 'useless' can be used dramatically, not literally, to emphasize personal opinion.

Hyperbole in Speech

Use 'useless' when something depends on a condition or element that is missing or not met.

Conditionally Useless

'Useless' can describe a person's significant lack of skill in a particular area.

Skill Deficiency

Be cautious, calling someone 'useless' can be offensive—it attacks their capability.

Not a Personal Attack

The offensiveness of 'useless' heavily depends on context and tone of voice.

Context Matters

 So you end up having this problem where you spend all this money getting aid and all these advanced electronics to these countries, and it ends up being useless. So what Prestero and his team decided to do was to look around and What are the abundant resources in these developing world contexts? And what they noticed was,

Where good ideas come...

 and I was sharing that enthusiasm with other people. To me that's the true beauty of making useless things, because it's this acknowledgment that you don't always know what the best answer is. And it turns off that voice in your head that tells you that you know exactly how the world works.

Why you should make...

 reproduction is. And the world if full of creatures like the male anglerfish, which is so small and ill-suited for survival at birth that it has to quickly find a mate before it dies. But at least we can say that if an organism dies without reproducing, it's evolutionarily useless, right?

Myths and misconceptions...

 but by the amount of happiness you spread and the amount of meaning you give. I believe in a future where the point of education is not to prepare you for another useless job but for a life well-lived. I believe in a future where an existence without poverty is not a privilege

Poverty isn't a lack of...

 mineral rich and this makes them really hard but quite fragile this would be useless and something like our femur in our thigh because all that weight bearing and twisting it was simply shatter but whereas these little bones are protected deep with inside the skull

The Smallest Bones in...

 scattered across the site. As you can see here, this area of the temple is full of pot shells. But unfortunately this material is completely useless for us because it's out of a secure context. Cannot tell us anything about the life of the temple.

How Pharaohs Projected...

 Solid-state drives also have an additional weakness. Repeatedly writing to floating gate transistors corrodes them, eventually rendering them useless. With data on most current storage media having less than a ten-year life expectancy,

How computer memory...

 more than one billion web pages -- do you want to go through them all? Computing power helps, but it would be useless without the mathematical modeling to find the information hidden in the data. Let's work out a baby problem.

What's so sexy about...

 in the middle, was useless in the sense that nobody wanted it. But it wasn't useless in the sense that it helped people figure out what they wanted. In fact, relative to the option in the middle,

Are we in control of our...

 and she said because it starts with I it took me much time to figure out that all I plants and goggle language are considered to be useless while all mu