Quotes About Function

It is merely a metaphor to call competition competitive war, or simply, war. The function of battle is destruction; of competition, construction.

Doing things like playing music, something that's so natural and basic to human function, running around in nature, eating delicious food. These things are intrinsic in basic, primordial to human beings, so that's sort of a way to return to a blank canvas, allowing my true personality to return.

The problem of the minimum dwelling is that of establishing the elementary minimum of space, air, light, and heat required by man in order that he be able to fully develop his life functions without experiencing limitations due to his dwelling, i.e. a minimum modus vivendi in place of a modus non moriendi.

Architects create spaces that accommodate human activity.

In today's world, access to the Internet is inarguably critical to function in informal and formal spaces - and the costs to digital segregation are rising.

The function of arts centers goes far beyond being places for performance. They might not be explicitly religious, but they are civic and social spaces.

The pain for her and the love for her was so entwined that neither would function without the other.

we can control a function of x, f(x), even if x remains vastly beyond our understanding.

What survives must be good at serving some (mostly hidden) purpose that time can see but our eyes and logical faculties can't capture.

a) The more nonlinear, the more the function of something divorces itself from the something. If traffic were linear, then there would be no difference in traffic time between the two following situations: 90,000, then 110,000 cars on the one hand, or 100,000 cars on the other.

b) The more volatile the something—the more uncertainty—the more the function divorces itself from the something. Let us consider the average number of cars again. The function (travel time) depends more on the volatility around the average. Things degrade if there is unevenness of distribution. For the same average you prefer to have 100,000 cars for both time periods; 80,000 then 120,000, would be even worse than 90,000 and 110,000.

c) If the function is convex (antifragile), then the average of the function of something is going to be higher than the function of the average of something. And the reverse when the function is concave (fragile).

A knife can be a weapon, but it can also be a surgical instrument.

Tal vez, piensa Risa, haya un modo de hacer que esta vida funcione. O tal vez no lo haya. Pero, en aquel momento, no hay nada más maravilloso que perderse en los sonidos de la música. Ya se le había olvidado lo delicioso que resultaba.

There is an unalterable and widening gap between exterior and interior, symbol and content, form and function -a gap which is making the environment more and more inarticulate, impossible to understand and difficult to manipulate.

Los idiotas emiten bogones que hacen que las máquinas se estropeen en su presencia. Los administradores de sistema absorben los bogones, lo que permite que las máquinas vuelvan a funcionar.

Creativity isn't the only way we strive to matter and gain power, but it's the most functional, sensible way. It doesn't require greed or jealousy, envy or outright violence, all of which can be highly effective, if immensely damaging, methods for gaining power. But these don't reveal a fit brain. Creativity does. It is the most impressive way to earn the attention of others. And thankfully, over the long haul, it works;

Journalism has become a form of idealism. It is no longer, first and foremost, function, craft, service - it is mission.

We all know the future is mobile, right? And the iPhone and iPad are Perfect Expressions of Beauty, Ideal Combinations of Form and Function. Except they're Not.

Artwork operates on two different levels: On one level, there's artwork as a mode of expressivity, and then there's the other side, where the image is a construction that is meant to engage in a discursive field in order to perform a particular function.

Buildings are always better than drawings and models.

I don't believe in morality in architecture.

Capitalism actually encourages morality because capitalism can't function well if people can't trust each other and people aren't honest, if a deal isn't a deal.

Memory is a big one: our ability to use the memory and move things in and out efficiently - that affected what we were able to do more than anything.