Function Quotes
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The designer must understand that form does not follow function nor does form follow a production process. For every use and for every production process there are innumerable equally attractive solutions.
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Effective science began when it passed from the occasional amateur into the hands of men who made the winning of knowledge their special function or profession.
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As far as documentaries go, I believe unreservedly that they serve an important function in our culture. I'd love to be able to make both documentaries and feature films simultaneously, but so far that hasn't happened.
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At the end of the day, there is still one function of journalism that cannot be computerized, and that is reporters. You're always going to need reporters.
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In a very real sense, there are only two roles in organisations: customers and suppliers. Everybody functions simultaneously in both roles, whether inside or outside the organisation the essence of good business, therefore, is the quality of the relationship between customer and supplier.
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One can say that the author is an ideological product, since we represent him as the opposite of his historically real function. (When a historically given function is represented in a figure that inverts it, one has an ideological production.) The author is therefore the ideological figure by which one marks the manner in which we fear the proliferation of meaning.
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Turkey is the gateway to the east for Europe, and the gateway to Europe for the east. We have a bridging function that Europe shouldn't underestimate.
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The function of a leader within any institution: to provide that regulation through his or her non-anxious, self-defined presence.
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Which artfully combines a complete lack of aesthetic quality with a total disregard for the utilitarian function for which it is built.
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Strategy is the most important department of the art of war, and strategical skill is the highest and rarest function of military genius.
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Everybody has some information. The function of the markets is to aggregate that information, evaluate it and get it incorporated into prices.
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People have always asked whether evolution is constantly driving onwards and upwards. Is there always going to be improvement? The answer is no: evolution is a progression of form and function, but it is not purposeful.
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The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
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What is the function of the heart, if not to convince the blood to stay moving with the limits where it belongs, to stay at home.
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Be a function of your values rather than a function of the impulse or desire of any given moment.
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How is it possible for me to be so miserable and embarrassed and humiliated and beaten an function still talk and smile and concentrate?
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I see film as a real opportunity to examine the human condition. No matter where the technology goes in the future, the basics don't change. Storytelling is a primitive tribal function. The elders sat around the fires and told these stories as a way to pass on the 'dos' and the 'don'ts.' That will never change.
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Since natural selection requires a function to select, an irreducibly complex biological system, if there is such a thing, would have to arise as an integrated unit for natural selection to have anything to act on.
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Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions.
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Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
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Don't praise your own good shots. Leave that function to your partner who, if a good sport, will not be slow in performing it.
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For a book to function... it has to be a functioning reality. The character has to be real, and I imagine that's exactly what happens for a spy who is in deep cover.
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To decide to reach for this blue and not that one, to switch styles or subject matter, to move, in the middle of a sentence, in one direction or another, to commit to this book when that one is also calling, are the sorts of choices that artists must make if they are to function.
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Los Angeles is just a more open place. The way L.A. functions is that people give you a forum. They say, Show us what you can do.
