Quotes About Function

Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?

Adam Grolsch, who had witnessed the Jewish massacre in Pinsk, also witnessed two or three gas vans while he was in Rivne, Ukraine, but their function occurred to him only later:

In '33, a whole lot of the members of this working-class party from our suburb were arrested, above all those who had held some kind of leadership function in the party.

While the Fed is usually identified as the Lender of Last Resort (LLR) in the United States, the LLR function is actually shared by the Fed and FDIC.

denial itself was institutionalized as a government function. Since 1923, the Turkish government has spent tens of millions of dollars in a concerted disinformation campaign to delude the world at large and, perhaps more important, its own people.

Math is not a constructor, or even a function. It's an object. As you know, Math is a built-in object that you can use to do things like get the value of pi (with Math.PI) or generate a random number (with Math.random). Think of Math as just like an object literal that has a bunch of useful properties and methods in it, built-in for you to use whenever you write JavaScript code. It just happens to have a capital first letter to let you know that it's built-in to JavaScript.

JavaScript creates all local variables at the beginning of a function whether you declare them or not (this is called "hoisting" and we'll come back to it later), but the variables are all undefined until they are assigned a value, which might not be what you want.

Web Workers have a global function named importScripts that you can use to import one or more JavaScript files into your worker. To

An expression is anything that evaluates to a value. 3+4

Now, when we have an environment that has a value for each of the free variables, we say that we've closed the function. And, when we take the function and the environment together, we say we have a closure.

When you pass a primitive value it is copied into the parameter. We call this "passing by value." So if you change the value of the parameter in your function body it has no affect on our original argument's value. The exception to this is passing an array or object, and we'll get to that in a bit.

A function without a return statement returns undefined.

If a variable is declared outside a function, it's GLOBAL. If it's declared inside a function, it's LOCAL.

methods in objects are properties too. They just happen to have a function assigned to them.

If you assign a new variable without using the var keyword, that variable will be global, even if you are first assigning it in a function.

In fact, there's a keyword in JavaScript named this, and that is exactly how you tell JavaScript you mean this object we're in.

A callback works like this: give a function to the object that knows about the event. When the event occurs, that object will call you back, or notify you, by calling that function. You're going to see this pattern in JavaScript for a variety of events.

When you declare any kind of global variable or define a global function, it is stored as a property in the window object. So

Man was meant to function like a mirror—something to reflect the image of God into creation.

If the ego is to attain a condition of tranquillity in which to exercise discrimination, consciousness and the differentiated function must be as far removed as possible from the active field of emotional components. All differentiated functions are liable to be disturbed by them, but the disturbance is most evident in the case of thinking, which is by nature opposed to feeling and even more to emotionality.

Perverted pride is a great misfortune in men; but pride in its original function, for which God created it, is indispensable to a proper manhood.

culminating in one of those formless red brick shopping centres which artfully combines a complete lack of aesthetic quality with a total disregard for the utilitarian function for which it is built.

which artfully combines a complete lack of aesthetic quality with a total disregard for the utilitarian function for which it is built.

If he has confessed, one would have expected that some of the Abwehr officials closely connected to Artist and Tricycle would have ceased to carry out their normal functions"—like breathing.