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Quotes About Functions

The t-distribution is actually a series, or "family," of probability density functions that vary according to the size of our sample.
~ Charles Wheelan
I'm such a dork, but I really think there are derivatives to be found between story arcs and character motivations. And the way you evaluate functions is a really interesting way to look at stories and the way you act. I really believe it.
~ Morgan Saylor
Because its purpose is to find and keep customers, the business enterprise has two—and only two—basic functions: marketing and innovation. Marketing and innovation produce results; all the rest are 'costs.
~ Kevin J. Clancy
L'anomalie n'est connue de la science que si elle a d'abord été sentie dans la conscience, sous forme d'obstacle à l'exercice des fonctions, sous forme de gêne ou de nocivité. Mais le sentiment d'obstacle, de gêne ou de nocivité est un sentiment qu'il faut bien dire normatif, puisqu'il comporte la référence même inconsciente d'une fonction et d'une impulsion à la plénitude de leur exercice.
~ Georges Canguilhem
She looked into the room. So many machines and wires and tubes - a reminder that the human body was an incredible miracle, its countless autonomic functions a gift when they were operating as intended, and a cumbersome nightmare to have to approximate when they were not.
~ J.R. Ward
There are certain functions that a writer has to do. In a time of crisis, it is great to have heroic poems, as it was in the Irish Revolution. It's great to have great songs, because people need something to sing when they are marching. That's OK, but it should be on the side. It's not the ultimate thing.
~ Derek Walcott
In my second year, after moving to the Medical School, I began the courses of Anatomy and Physiology. I had begun to see that I was interested in cells and their functions.
~ Sydney Brenner
GUIs tend to impose a large overhead on every single piece of software, even the smallest, and this overhead completely changes the programming environment. Small utility programs are no longer worth writing. Their functions, instead, tend to get swallowed up into omnibus software packages.
~ Neal Stephenson
Although it performed the same functions as the Dutch Wisselbank, the Riksbank was also designed to be a Lanebank, meaning that it engaged in lending as well as facilitating commercial payments. By lending amounts in excess of its metallic reserve, it may be said to have pioneered the practice of what would later be known as fractional reserve banking, exploiting the fact that money left on deposit could profitably be lent out to borrowers.
~ Niall Ferguson
Hospitality is about trying to support multiple functions in one space.
~ Miguel McKelvey
body space was so tight that Nature had to double up on functions, why didn't She have us smell with our fingertips or hear with our elbows—anything to save some special part of the body for the performance of this sublime act? (Perhaps the belly button, which seemed to have no very urgent function assigned to it.) Something wasn't right here. Either my mother was wrong about the loftiness of love-making, or Nature was playing a cruel joke.
~ Trevanian
These actions are often called callbacks because some code gets called back when a user action occurs.
~ Cay S. Horstmann
The most important of these functions are those of governing Blood and housing the Mind (Shen). Most
~ Giovanni Maciocia
While the NSA is officially a public agency, it has countless overlapping partnerships with private sector corporations, and many of its core functions have been outsourced.
~ Glenn Greenwald
It once seemed that the most profound feats stemming from DNA-based science would spring from our ability to read and detect genes, which we call the science of genomics. But the real opportunities lie in our ability to write DNA, to synthesize new gene sequences and insert them into organisms, resulting in brand-new biological functions.
~ Scott Gottlieb
I undertake that, in the exercise of my functions of that office I will have regard to any guidance with respect to ethical standards issued by the secretary of state under Section 66 of the Greater London Authority Act 1999.
~ Ken Livingstone
Colors express the main psychic functions of man.
~ Carl Jung
Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.
~ larson doug
The hypothalamus is one of the most important parts of the brain, involved in many kinds of motivation, among other functions. The hypothalamus controls the "Four F's": fighting, fleeing, feeding, and mating.
~ Marvin Dunnette
The lessons of paternalism ought to be unlearned and the better lesson taught that while the people should patriotically and cheerfully support their Government its functions do not include the support of the people.
~ Grover Cleveland
For students, understanding the separate and unique functions of each branch of government can help them understand how different kinds of government officials can help solve different kinds of problems.
~ Sandra Day O'Connor
The Argentine government is convinced of Mrs. Malcorra's conditions and capacities that will allow her to amply carry out the functions of the role of Secretary General of the United Nations.
~ Mauricio Macri
As no outward motion or change, when normal, in man's external body can take place unless provoked by an inward impulse, given through one of the three functions named, so with the external or manifested Universe.
~ Helena Blavatsky
Mathematicians have been hiding and writing messages in the genetic code for a long time, but it's clear they were mathematicians and not biologists because, if you write long messages with the code that the mathematicians developed, it would more than likely lead to new proteins being synthesized with unknown functions.
~ Craig Venter