Jimmy Reid

Robert Burns enriched Scottish song with his genius and is mainly responsible for the rich treasure house of song that we enjoy today. He collected folk songs, retained the melodic line, kept what words were usable and rewrote the rest. He didn't claim ownership.

Scottish Activist

Gary Wolf

Sometimes entire categories of craigslist are rendered nearly unusable by spam. Con artists prowl the listings, paying sellers with fake cashier's checks and luring buyers to share their credit card numbers.

American Journalist

Bill Gates

Should surveillance be usable for petty crimes like jaywalking or minor drug possession? Or is there a higher threshold for certain information? Those aren't easy questions.

American Businessman

Elizabeth Diller

Aside from keeping the rain out and producing some usable space, architecture is nothing but a special-effects machine that delights and disturbs the senses.

Polish Architect

Ian Mcewan

A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable experience. Childhood and adolescence were something I knew.

British Author

Ferdinand Mount

No constitution is or can be perfectly symmetrical, what it can and must be is generally accepted as both fair and usable.

British Writer

Robert Collier

Make your mold. The best flux in the world will not make a usable shape unless you have a mold to pour it in.

American Author

Heywood Broun

Get up and hit a home run,' has never been a part of the usable technique of any manager.

Anne Reid

I'd make every weapon on the planet unusable. Every bomb. Every gun.

English Actress

Daniela Ruah

I'd rather have a house that's nice but usable.

American Actress

Usable often implies the item is accessible or easy to obtain and ready to be used.

Availability Matters

Think of 'usable' as convenient and suitable for a specific purpose or situation.

Practicality

'Usable' doesn't mean perfect; it often means good enough to serve a purpose.

Not Perfect

In computing, 'usable' emphasizes the user's easy and efficient experience with technology.

Ease of Use

'Usable' in computing often results from testing and user feedback to ensure quality.

Testing Emphasis

'Usable' technology is often updated; it wasn't usable until a recent change or fix.

Continual Improvement

 because we had to make a device that could travel on many, many types of terrain but still be usable indoors, and be simple enough to repair, we ended up with a fundamentally new product, a new product that is an innovation in a space that really hasn't changed in a hundred years. And these are all merits that are not just good in the developing world.

Amos Winter: The cheap...

 We then went on to optimize the glazing of the facades to minimize the energy consumption of the building. But most importantly, we could prove that through the geometry of the building design, the building itself would provide sufficient shading to the courtyards so that those would be usable throughout the entire year.

Why great architecture...

 which I would consider a completely unusable, to an after that looks like that. There's so much out there, but that doesn't mean that there's no need for more. I think that there's a need for as much art in the world as humanly possible. And everybody should be out there making something creative.

Photography as...

 These red wigglers are surface dwellers who don't burrow too deep, they're optimal feeders around room temperature, and they're well-suited to converting organic waste into usable fertilizer. Now, your worms might be vermin, but they need a comfortable space to live and some bedding materials,

Vermicomposting: How...

 You can run these off -- they're really hungry, they really like down-blended weapons pits, so that's highly enriched uranium and weapons-grade plutonium that's been down-blended. It's made into a grade where it's not usable for a nuclear weapon, but they love this stuff.

Taylor Wilson: My...

 forms a more complete picture. Big data is able to offer insights at scale and leverage the best of machine intelligence, whereas thick data can help us rescue the context loss that comes from making big data usable, and leverage the best of human intelligence.

The human insights...

 but if you followed what he said, everything would be usable but it would be ugly." Well, I didn't have that in mind, so This is neat. Thank you for setting up my display. I mean, it's just wonderful.

The three ways that good...

 human-centered. It may integrate technology and economics, but it starts with what humans need, or might need. What makes life easier, more enjoyable? What makes technology useful and usable?

Tim Brown urges...

 to produce that much amount of usable material. Our ticket to green growth, in other words, is digging deep in the environment. Now we know that mining can have grave impacts

The Blind Spots of the...

 an accessible usable product going from speed one of the most modern experiences in the world the next project is about looking at the past and how religious