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• You will outgrow your usefulness.
• Leela: I guess you never really outgrow being an eyeball... oddball.
• All men are born equal. The tough job is to outgrow it.
• Carol: "The reformed moon represented here represents the merest fraction of the Genesis potential, should the Federation wish to fund these experiments to their logical conclusion.
  When we consider the cosmic problems of population and food supply, the usefulness of this process becomes clear....
• pungle n. [Durham, UK; portmanteau, spangle + bungle] A spangle of no actual usefulness.
  Example: Roger the Bent Paperclip in Microsoft Word '98....
• Spock: "Is it possible...that we too, you and I, have grown so old and so inflexible, that we have outlived our usefulness?
  Would that constitute a joke?" -- "STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8...
• The usefulness of a meeting is inversely proportional to its attendance.
• The perceived usefulness of an article is inversely propor- tional to its actual usefulness once bought and paid for.
  -- Glatum's Law of Materialistic Acquisitivene...
• Kirkland's Law The usefulness of any meeting is in inverse proportion to the attendance.