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Quotes About Function

In the Constitution of India the Supreme Court and the High Courts were seen as watchdog bodies, independent of the executive, and entrusted with the task of seeing that all institutions function in accordance with the Constitution, and the Rule of Law.
~ Prashant Bhushan
In some environments, roles shift and change each period depending on what the company's needs are. On the other hand, many functional roles can become very repetitive if you perform similar tasks over and over again.
~ Andrew Yang
Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.
~ Yoshio Taniguchi
I can't function if I don't have tea. I don't know whether it's psychological or a real necessity, but I just need it.
~ Deirdre O'Kane
Ever since she was a child, she'd struggled to sleep, but now night was even more her enemy. Sometimes she didn't sleep for days on end and could barely function. Other times she slept fitfully, her nightmares filled with the horrors of her past, the cases that haunted her. Work was her salvation
~ Rita Herron
If the answer is that we want it primarily for the purpose of owning it, then we should use its availability to help gauge how much we want to spend for it. However, if the answer is that we want it primarily for its function (that is, we want something good to drive, drink, eat, etc.), then we must remember that the item under consideration will function equally well whether scarce or plentiful. Quite simply, we need to recall that the scarce cookies didn't taste any better.
~ Robert B. Cialdini
Everything in this business makes sense, because it serves a real purpose, fills a need that's a part of living. Even a single nail, like this one, fulfills a function. Drive it into a crucial place and you can depend on it to do a job, keep on doing it for a hundred years to come. Long after we're dead and gone, both of us.
~ Robert Bloch
If a test in the same package needs to call a function or access a variable, we'll make it protected or package scope.
~ Robert C. Martin
Flag arguments are ugly. Passing a boolean into a function is a truly terrible practice.
~ Robert C. Martin
In general output arguments should be avoided. If your function must change the state of something, have it change the state of its owning object.
~ Robert C. Martin
In Clojure, an atom is a special kind of variable whose value is allowed to mutate under very disciplined conditions that are enforced by the swap! function.
~ Robert C. Martin
If your function must change the state of something, have it change the state of its owning object.
~ Robert C. Martin
In fact, component dependency diagrams have very little do to with describing the function of the application. Instead, they are a map to the buildability and maintainability of the application.
~ Robert C. Martin
Don't hide side effects with a name. Don't use a simple verb to describe a function that does more than just that simple action.
~ Robert C. Martin
structured programming, object-orient programming, and functional programming.
~ Robert C. Martin
First, let's consider the notion that using services, by their nature, is an architecture. This is patently untrue. The architecture of a system is defined by boundaries that separate high-level policy from low-level detail and follow the Dependency Rule. Services that simply separate application behaviors are little more than expensive function calls, and are not necessarily architecturally significant.
~ Robert C. Martin
Notice how well those three align with the three big concerns of architecture: function, separation of components, and data management.
~ Robert C. Martin
Don't Use a Comment When You Can Use a Function or a Variable
~ Robert C. Martin
Because the physical conduits that permit and transmit those memories have been altered. Physically rearranged to the point where they no longer function as they once did. For all intents and purposes, they've been destroyed.
~ Robert Ludlum
And I'd prefer you function the very best you can at that appointment. My interests are extremely selfish, no remissions permitted.
~ Robert Ludlum
Since the world obviously doesn't function normally when Quality is subtracted, Quality exists, whether it's defined or not.
~ Robert M. Pirsig
motorcycle functions entirely in accordance with the laws of reason, and a study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the art of rationality itself.
~ Robert M. Pirsig
In other cases the challenge is to appreciate how, though human physiology resembles that of other species, we use the physiology in novel ways.
~ Robert M. Sapolsky
Morals can't function normally because morals have been declared intellectually illegal by the subject object metaphysics that dominates present social thought
~ Robert Pirsig