Quotes About Function

He is thinking about his brain. It strikes him that it is odd to have to use the thing that may not be working to consider the thing that isn't working.

Está pensando en su cerebro. Le parece extraño que, aunque no funcione bien, su cerebro vaya a servirle para entender por qué no funciona.

The Color Creator Tool is a very interesting and powerful addition to the functions available to creative photographers. It presents you with a color circle, similar to what you see in many applications when you go to adjust the color of your font or background.

Abbesses then for several centuries were recognized as the ordinary ministers of penance for their own monastic community and sometimes even exercised that power outside that circle. This was one of the most important liturgical functions

There are, of course, many reasons to think that brains operate mostly in parallel. Individual neurons are too slow to allow brains to operate in strict serial von Neumann fashion, and ample data suggest that in any given laboratory task (and by extension, any real-world situation) many different parts of the brain are engaged simultaneously.

Many people with creative genes also suffer from various neurological disorders; you can be Mozart and still be bipolar," says Salerian. "There is a very close link between creativity and dysfunction of the nervous system—it's part of a mood disorder package that artistic people have a higher chance of suffering from.

The speedy evolution of antibiotic resistance is not surprising, because bacteria multiply fast and are present in enormous numbers, so that any mutation that can make a cell resistant is sure to occur in a few bacteria in a population; if the bacteria are able to survive the change to their cell functions caused by the mutation and to multiply, a resistant population can rapidly build up.

Did you ever notice that all machines are made for some reason? … They are built to make you laugh, like the mouse here, or to tell the time, like clocks, or to fill you with wonder like the automaton. Maybe that's why a broken machine always makes me a little sad, because it isn't able to do what it was meant to do. … Maybe it's the same with people: if you lose your purpose, it's like you're broken.

Tal vez sea esa la razón de que las máquinas rotas resulten tan tristes: ya no pueden cumplir con el propósito para el que fueron creadas.

I like to imagine that the world is one big machine. You know, machines never have any extra parts. They have the exact number and type of parts they need. So I figure if the entire world is a big machine, I have to be here for some reason.

i like to imagine that the world is one big machine. you know machines never have any extra parts. they have exact number and type they need. so i figure if the world is a big machine, i have to be here for some reason. and that means you have to be here for some reason, too.

Did you ever notice that all machines are made for some reason?' He asked Isabelle. 'They are built to make to make you laugh, like the mouse here, or to tell the time, like clocks, or to fill you with wonder, like the automaton. Maybe that's why a broken machine always makes me a little sad, because it isn't able to do what it was meant to do.

Maybe that's why a broken machine always makes me a little sad, because it isn't able to do what it was meant to do...Maybe it's the same with people," Hugo continued. "If you lose your purpose...it's like your broken.

Balance is the core of health. We feel and function best when our body's systems are in balance, and when we're in balance with friends, family, community, and nature.

We're using this machine called the human body in ways that would void the manufacturer's warranty.

We're back to where we started in this chapter, the environment. In my own work in the laboratory, I saw over and over the impact a changed environment had on the cells I was studying. But it was only at the end of my research career, at Stanford, that the message fully sank in. I saw that endothelial cells, which are the blood vessel-lining cells I was studying, changed their structure and function depending on their environment. When

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.

Ballet is completely unnatural to the body, just being turned-out... it's not the way your body is supposed to function, so you actually train your body to be a different structure than you were born with.

I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.

If you are a man, I feel that practicality should always trump fashion.

Form must never trump function. Some objects are made to look so smooth, you don't know where to pick them up or how to turn them on. If I'm designing a garlic press or cheese grater, I need my hand to fit comfortably on it. I like to know, instinctively, how to use it.

Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

What I argued in 'The Great Divide' is that societies can't function without trust, both politically and economically.

I really had to go back and remind myself that trusting makes society function on an individual level related to health and on a social level related to economic growth and development.