Useless work on useful things

Anyone can verify by simple observation two important facts.

The first is, that whenever humans design and make a useful thing they invariably expend a good deal of unnecessary and easily avoidable work on it which contributes nothing to its usefulness.

The second fact is that all useful devices have got to do useless things which no one wants them to do. Who wants car to get hot? Or to wear out its tires? Or to make a noise and a smell?

  1. ​The works of God​
  2. ​If you have to do tedious work​
  3. ​We might as well make them beautiful​
  4. ​Against form follows function​
  5. ​Combinations and arrangements​