A recurrent theme throughout the first chapter is that we are ruled by our preconceptions of the uses of things, which keeps us from being able to recognize the usefulness of the "useless".
Andrew Koenig and Barbara E. Moo also recognized the usefulness of a built-in typeof facility, with the caveat that "using it often invites subtle programming errors, and there are some problems that it cannot solve".
Plato, for his part, recognized the usefulness of the literary art and philosophical rhetoric.
Business has come to recognize the usefulness of such forecasts in developing plans for future expansion and financing.
But Butler recognizes the usefulness of a concise, recognizable label, especially in politics, and so he suggested to Gabbard a compromise: "I told her, 'Why don't you use the phrase "transcendental Hinduism"?' " (Indeed, during a recent conversation in the congressional dining room Gabbard did precisely that).
The uninsured clients also recognized the usefulness of the NHIS.
Some employees that are part of the baby boomer generation -- who remember when phones were wired and TVs were wireless -- may recognize the usefulness of the tool, but they may wonder who on the team could operate it.
Additionally, while the authors directly and forcefully present their solution to the challenges both secondary school teachers and students are facing, they still recognize the usefulness of traditional approaches and point out that the traditional ways of teaching reading are not good enough and thus a new approach is needed.
In order to get on with fixing what it was possible to fix, they recognized the usefulness of an ability to live with a degree of uncertainty, a quality that Goldwater, and later George Bush and Karl Rove, vanquished from the Republican Party.
According to UCLA's press office, Moore was one of the first researchers to recognize the usefulness of growing cancer cells in culture to study the effects of various drugs on cancer growth.
