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

It's where we're nearest to our humanness. Useless knowledge for its own sake. Useful knowledge is good, too, but it's for the faint-hearted, an elaboration of the real thing, which is only to shine some light, it doesn't matter where on what, it's the light itself, against the darkness, it's what's left of God's purpose when you take away God.

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

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!