Quotes About Function

As an ex-programmer, I'm still just curious about how the brain functions, how that flow of information really happens.

I love to perform at various award functions and one day I would like to open a dance academy.

Function is fundamental to design, of course. If something doesn't work, it's a bad product, and I certainly get frustrated by things that aren't functional. But there has to be more than function. A house has to function, but if that's all it does, you don't love it.

The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.

The highest function of ecology is understanding consequences.

The thing the ecologically illiterate don't understand about an ecosystems is that it is a system…that's why the highest function of ecology is the understanding of consequences.

We have two chief survivors of those ancient schools: the Bene Gesserit and the Spacing Guild. The Guild, so we think, emphasizes almost pure mathematics. Bene Gesserit performs another function.

Urine and feces are processed in the thigh pads

Pain is a function of nerves, Idaho reminded himself. Pain comes as light comes to the eyes. Effort comes from the muscles, not from nerves. It was an old mentat drill and he completed it in the space of one breath

I spent a great deal of my career willingly ignoring the fact that people are participating in it, because it allows me to function without second-guessing it, without thinking, 'Oh, I wonder what people are gonna think of this,' or, 'I wonder what people aren't gonna think of this.'

The willingness to take risk is largely a function of wealth.

The products people like best start with function and wind up with look.

For me, addiction exposes all of the brain mechanism under the influence of a profoundly distorted primary motivation. It's such a window into how we function as human beings. And the patient doesn't know that's happening! Doesn't believe that's happening! That's the fascinating part.

I do think that once you remove the limitations of the page, once you turn text transitive, meaning it can be clicked away from, the forward movement of text can be interrupted. But I don't think this is just a function of technology. It's also a function of cultural preference.

What the Who is all about is exactly that and it always has been. If it exists today for this concert, it's in response again to a function which is happening out there on the street.

You can outsource the function but not the risk"

Si examinamos a la cultura como juego y al juego como una extensión de funciones neuronales, como he propuesto, podemos entender mejor cómo, desde sus orígenes, la cultura es una extraña prótesis que compelta y suple actividades que el cerebro no puede desempeñar más que con la ayuda de estas redes simbólicas externas de reemplazo.

The Problem-Solving Power of Integrative Thinking The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless yet be determined to make them otherwise.1 —F. Scott Fitzgerald

The late arrival of the horse in India is not surprising since the horse is not an animal indigenous to India. Even on the west Asian scene, its presence is not registered until the second millennium BC. The horse was unimportant, ritually and functionally, to the Indus civilization.

Outside of its legitimate function, government does nothing as well or as economically as the private sector

I conceive the proposition—like Frege and Russell—as a function of the expressions contained in it.

The sense of a truth-function of p is a function of the sense of p.   Denial, logical addition, logical multiplication, etc. etc., are operations.   (Denial reverses the sense of a proposition.)

On the page, punctuation performs its grammatical function, but in the mind of the reader it does more than that. It tells the reader how to hum the tune.

You're good in school. Everybody likes you." "For all the most unimportant reasons," Calvin said. "There hasn't been anybody, anybody in the world I could talk to. Sure, I can function on the same level as everybody else, I can hold myself down, but it isn't me.