The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing

We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.

All art is quite useless.

The first move of any strategy of cultural production, he’d say, must be to liberate things – objects, situations, systems – into uselessness.

The plates of the continental shelf - the world itself - had shifted, and their first concern was putting things back in place. He could have told them it was no use, though his whole life he'd done the same.

Use of No Use is Great Use. (Chuang Tzu)

Woe to him who becomes useless to human progress!