Function Quotes
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Whether you function as welders or inspectors, the laws of physics are implacable lie-detectors. You may fool men. You will never fool the metal.
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Between two products equal in price, function and quality, the one with the most attractive exterior will win.
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The first and most optimistic response was complete rational expectations econometrics. A rational expectations equilibrium is a likelihood function. Maximize it.
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As you know, Social Security functions under the premise that today's workers will help finance benefits for retirees and that these workers will then be supported by the next generation of workers paying into the same system.
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You can still function as a living ruin.
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True effectiveness is a function of two things: what is produced (the golden eggs) and the producing asset (the goose).
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It is the function of parents to see that their children habitually experience the true consequences of their conduct.
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Ask Bill [Gates] why the string in [MS-DOS] function 9 is terminated by a dollar sign. Ask him, because he can't answer. Only I know that.
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One of the functions of government is to act as a safeguard not just of property but of our liberties.
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Technology has deprived the family of almost all its functions.
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The convenient function of every celebrated machine for living is to produce machines to live in them.
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Less than 7 hours of sleep at night causes lower overall brain function.
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A leader has to know how the system functions - not just the system of government but the whole social and economic system, including business, the unions, and the universities.
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Good design is not about form following function. It is function with cultural content. By adding "cultural content" to the concept of "form follows function," objects cease to be finite or predictable. Maybe the right way to interpret the dictum is to first acknowledge that the function needs to be clearly understood before the form is considered.
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I like comedy but I guess I don't think [my art] is that funny, either. It's too dark and a bit weird in places to be genuinely, uniformly hilarious and function as comedy.
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Once it is recognized that productive thinking in any area of cognition is perceptual thinking, the central function of art in general education will become evident.
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Stress is a function not of events, but of our view of those events.
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The function of the child is to live his own life - not the life that his anxious parents think he should live.
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With the rise of industrialism, words like 'normal' and 'defective,' words that had once only been used to refer to things, began to be used to refer to people. ... In the industrial age, a new degree of uniformity was expected of people. The rhythms and pacing of life could no longer be organic. People became expected to function like things.
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This is only one step in a much larger project. I discovered (no, not me: my team) the function of sugar nucleotides in cell metabolism. I want others to understood this, but it is not easy to explain: this is not a very noteworthy deed, and we hardly know even a little.
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The picture is not made by the photographer, the picture is more good or less good in function of the relationship that you have with the people you photograph.
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There are certain people in whom you can detect the seeds of madness - seeds that have remained dormant only because the people in question have lived relatively comfortable, middle class lives. They function perfectly well in the world, but you can imagine, given a nasty parent, or a prolonged bout of unemployment, how their potential for craziness might have been realized.
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The function of the actor is to make the audience imagine for the moment that real things are happening to real people.
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Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can be more fully performed by this art, which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure.
