My tendency to idealize Western civilization arises from my nationalistic desire to use the West in order to reform China. But this has led me to overlook the flaws of Western culture.

You might not think of something like TurboTax as a civic venture, but that product took a confusing interface to a government process and made it simpler and easier to use for citizens.

I’m loath to use my personal life to promote what I do, but at the same time, I don’t like a journalist going away with no more than you could get off Wikipedia, where most...

I use the term ‘disabled people’ quite deliberately, because I subscribe to what’s called the social model of disability, which tells us that we are more disabled by the society that we live in than...

We have people who pay to use our products and services, and they are heavily engaged in our content. If you erase the brand perceptions of AOL, and consider that people pay to use our...

I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings.

So you keep raising these taxes, and all of a sudden the business community says, ‘Why are we here? We can go someplace else and use their phones.’ That’s one of the problems that directly...

Use the same measure for selling that you use for purchasing.

We want to let you use a Mac, or Windows PC, or iPad, or Android, without having to think about any of the technical details.

I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation.

In microbiology the roles of mutation and selection in evolution are coming to be better understood through the use of bacterial cultures of mutant strains.

The Obama administration has vastly expanded the use of armed drones and concentrated a great deal of diplomatic effort on building and maintaining alliances that share information about terrorists, provide access to get near them,...

Nevertheless, this type of propaganda has a special value, for it serves to convince those who sign the appeal, of the necessity for carrying on propaganda; so a corps of propagandists, if I may use...

As long as I am alive, I am fully committed to amity between Tibetans and Chinese. Otherwise there’s no use.

You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn’t use it.

I use cinematic things in a theatrical way on stage, and in film I use theatrical techniques in a cinematic way.

I founded Minted in 2007 with the desire to use ‘crowd-sourcing’ to bring designs from the best emerging and independent designers in the world to consumers.

There is a way in which all writing is connected. In a second language, for example, a workshop can liberate the students’ use of the vocabulary they’re acquiring.

It certainly is the duty of every true Christian, to esteem himself a stranger and pilgrim in this world; and as bound to use earthly blessings, not as means of satisfying lust or gratifying wantonness,...

I want to use every tool in the toolbox that’s at our disposal to help our economy and put people back to work.

I don’t use deodorant. If you drink enough water, you shouldn’t have to. I think I smell pretty good without it.

I entered medicine to use it as a vehicle for social change.

Is it appropriate still for a German to have a gun? I only use that as an example of a country that’s still deeply involved and engaged in the conversations about how to come to...

I think God has chosen to use this as a tool.

If you want to believe in the fantasy on screen, then you have to believe in the characters and use them as a stepping-stone to lead you into this fantasy world.

The younger generation has embraced Twitter and Facebook massively, and they spend most of their time on there. So if I want to reach new fans or keep in touch with my current, I try...

I go up to people and ask if I can use them in my photos. Occasionally it is the person in question, as happened with James Hewitt. How embarrassing. He just laughed and said, ‘You...

I wish I were the type who could walk into a place and have everybody love me. But I’m not, and there’s no use wishing.

Hosting the Olympic Games of course guarantees the world’s attention, but there is more to it than simply bathing in the global spotlight. Most importantly, host cities can use the opportunity to create a positive...

I don’t think the world will destroy itself in a nuclear cataclysm. On the contrary, we have the capacity to save ourselves and save the planet, and we will use it.

It doesn’t matter if you use a box camera or you use a Leica; the important thing is what motivates you when you are photographing.

‘The Graduate’ must be the best use of songs ever in a movie; it adds a layer to the movie you wouldn’t ever get from a score.

Hendrix was the bass player for Little Richard. We were both left-handed, but we would use a right-handed guitar held upside down and backwards. He developed my slides and my riffs. In fact he used...

Sure, the comedians who swear or use scatological humor can get laughs, but they’re uncomfortable laughs.

I thinks it really interesting how they throw the world music samples in there. I often wonder what it would be like to do something like that, but use my lyrics and my kind of...

I don’t use ‘always do this,’ ‘never say that’ and I never give advice because I’m not the end-all, be-all authority.

It is time to move on. House prices won’t rise and the economy won’t fully engage until more distressed properties are resolved and put back into ordinary use.

We need to make it very clear to the Iranians, the same way we made it clear to the Soviet Union and China, that their first use of nuclear weapons would result in the devastation...

I like something where I can really use my imagination and be an active participant in the construction of the monster and usually that’s in the world of the supernatural or the world of the...

All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to judicious use of sabotage.

Safety-net programs must make efficient use of taxpayer resources and harness the capabilities of recipients by helping them move back into the workforce.

Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.

Figure out what you really love doing and use your strengths on a daily basis.

Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?

When campaigns use one-word labels, typically it’s meant to distract and destroy.

Hip-hop has been hijacked by a Luciferian conspiracy. People have used hip-hop in a lot of ways that cause a lot of mind problems. They use the word wrongfully. They use it to mean a...

The Janus-like nature of innovation – its responsible use and so on – was evident at the very birth of human ingenuity, when humankind first discovered how to make fire on demand.

I think writers have to be proactive: they’ve got to use new technology and social media. Yes, it’s hard to get noticed by traditional publishers, but there’s a great deal of opportunity out there if...

What’s the use of happiness? It can’t buy you money.

Technology breeds crime and we are constantly trying to develop technology to stay one step ahead of the person trying to use it negatively.