Quotes About Function

Keeping sub-purposes and overall system purposes in harmony is an essential function of successful systems.

The least obvious part of the system, its function or purpose, is often the most crucial determinant of the system's behavior.

System: A set of elements or parts that is coherently organized and interconnected in a pattern or structure that produces a characteristic set of behaviors, often classified as its "function" or "purpose.

To ask whether elements, interconnections, or purposes are most important in a system is to ask an unsystemic question. All are essential. All interact. All have their roles. But the least obvious part of the system, its function or purpose, is often the most crucial determinant of the system's behavior.

A system consists of elements, interconnections, and a purpose. Changing elements usually has the least effect on the system.

In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function

Un ejemplo de un cuerpo correlacionado es el cuerpo humano, el cual está constituido por una enorme cantidad de elementos celulares mutuamente relacionados y dependientes y el cual funciona, en su totalidad, como una unidad.

I'm just learning who I am and how relationships work and how to make them function. No different from anyone else.

People get stuck a lot because they're afraid to act; in the worst case,...we get so attached to some end result that we can't function. We need help just to move on, only life doesn't wait.

But I don't think that sculpture belongs in everyday life like a table does, or like a chair.

The experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life. Heaven is not the place to have the experience; here is the place to have the experience.

I believe that the Apple Shuffle is an excellent compromise among the conflicting requirements of simplicity, elegance, size, battery life, and function

If he could rewrite the day, his life would be the way it always had been, and his future would be as he had planned. But though we must pretend otherwise in order to function, none of us can know the script for any day.

Sales is an outcome, not a goal. It's a function of doing numerous things right, starting from the moment you target a potential prospect until you finalize the deal.

A simple and a proper function of government is just to make it easy for us to do good and difficult for us to do wrong.

I woke up one morning thinking about wolves and realized that wolf packs function as families. Everyone has a role, and if you act within the parameters of your role, the whole pack succeeds, and when that falls apart, so does the pack.

But you overlook an important cultural function of games, to test the will of the gods.

I would like to achieve a state of inner spiritual grace from which I could function and give as I was meant to in the eye of God.

I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It is not a science, it is an aid to art.

There is a profound ethic to architecture which is different from the other arts.

Democracy is about institutions: it's about having things like schools and judiciary and the Ford Foundation, or 'The Nation' magazine - you need progressive institutions, you know what I mean? Those are important institutions to make sure that the government functions.

I've played the Greek classics; I've played the English classics. I promise you, I'm not complacent, because I hope to be playing all sorts of stuff that I've never played before while the mind - and the body - still functions.

Omega-3 fatty acids are essential nutrients that we must get from our diets because our bodies cannot make them; they are crucial for early brain development, and there is much evidence that they promote cardiovascular health and cognitive function.

I am interested in how cells know what they are and how they should behave in their proper place in the body.