Quotes About Function

Organize around business functions, not people. Build systems within each business function. Let systems run the business and people run the systems. People come and go, but the systems remain constant.

If anything like the 1918 flu occurred, the basic functions of the society would come to a halt, and no one in the federal government seemed to have worried about it.

The only inexplicable aspect of the process was that economic theory (which is, after all, what economics students were supposed to know) served almost no function in an investment bank. The bankers used economics as a sort of standardized test of general intelligence.

The government was the mission of an entire society: why was the society undermining it? "I'm routinely appalled by how profoundly ignorant even highly educated people are when it comes to the structure and function of our government," she said. "The sense of identity as Citizen has been replaced by Consumer.

In keeping with their system-sustaining function, the major news media present reality as a scatter of events and subjects that ostensibly bear little relation to each other or to a larger set of social relations.

Huxley suggests that the reason there aren't nearly as many mystics and visionaries walking around today, as compared to the Middle Ages, is the improvement in nutrition. Vitamin deficiencies wreak havoc on brain function and probably explain a large portion of visionary experiences in the past.

A mouse is the size of a mouse for a good reason, and a mouse that was the size of an elephant wouldn't do very well.

Unlike these other states of consciousness, ordinary waking consciousness has been optimized by natural selection to best facilitate our everyday survival.

Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes. It is in fact the great exciter of the Yes function in man.

At any kind of Fox function, you'll see 'Mad TV' at the kiddy table in the back, next to the buffet. We're a late-night sketch show, and there is more money in prime time.

Why is it never said that the really crucial function, the really important role that women serve as housewives is to buy more things for the house .

To limit one's field of inquiry to the function of an institution in a given social system, with no alternatives considered, provides an infinite number of rationalizations for all the inequalities and inequities of that system.

To function, a protein must not only have the necessary chemical components, properly assembled, but then must also be folded into an extremely specific shape. "Folding" is the term that's used

extensor pollicis brevis, the flexor pollicis longus, and the first volar interosseous of Henle.* Working together, they allow us to grasp and manipulate tools with sureness and delicacy. You might never have heard of them, but these three small muscles are at the heart of human civilization. Take them away and our greatest collective achievement might be maneuvering ants out of their nests with sticks.

Almost no one ever notices it, but our thumbs are on sideways. The thumbnail faces away from the rest of the fingers.

That's why ears have cartilage, to keep them from flapping.

From one point of view, all that a program ever does is to compute; that is, it takes some inputs and produces some output.

Navarro publicly said. "My function really as an economist is to try to provide the underlying analytics that confirm his intuition. And his intuition is always right in these matters.

Para Dickens y Marx, la función de las empresas era controlar o explotar al trabajador. Para Mill, su función era enriquecer a los dueños. Para Marshall, la empresa no era una cárcel, y dirigir una empresa no significaba controlar a los presos. Competir por los clientes (o los trabajadores) exigía algo más que repetición ciega. Las empresas estudiadas por Marshall habían tenido que evolucionar para sobrevivir.

We understand the ordinary business of living, We know how to work the machine

You choose tools for a task by their crafting, not their look," a crow said crisply from a nearby tree. He flapped over to land on a barrel in front of the cottage. "A smith's finest hammer will be streaked with soot.

They all seemed to function in it, but to say they controlled it would be wrong...The chaos controlled them.

pero no lo hizo porque ella sí sabía que la mentira tiene una función específica en nuestras vidas y que es tan necesaria como la verdad, tan importante como la explicación y tan valiosa como el silencio.

Clothing has been called intimate architecture. We want to go beyond that.