Quotes About Functionality

The more uninteresting the letter, the more useful it is to the typographer.

In Python, practicality often beats aesthetics.

Moving efficiently improves performance and keeps you from suffering injuries. We view the body and how it moves as an integrated system. We don't draw walls between various body groups, systems, and body parts; it's one system.

Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.

Our ultimate goal is extensible programming. By this, we mean the construction of hierarchies of modules, each module adding new functionality to the system.

Pin-Lee leaned over me and I said, "This unit is at minimal functionality and it is recommended that you discard it." It's an automatic reaction triggered by catastrophic malfunction. Also, I really didn't want them to try to move me because it hurt bad enough the way it was. "Your contract allows—" "Shut up," Mensah snapped. "You shut the fuck up. We're not leaving you.

Miki, damage report." "I am at eighty-six percent functional capacity." It held up its arm stump. "It's only a flesh wound.

Multiple closets for different needs. Overkill.

A Standish Group study found that 45 percent of features in a typical system are never used and 19 percent are rarely used.

Hmm. I'll need my Always Waterproof Fashion Ostrich Leash.

As a general rule, when something becomes useful, it ceases to be beautiful." 2 THÉOPHILE GAUTIER, 1811–1872

Software design as taught today is terribly incomplete. It talks only about what systems should do. It doesn't address the converse—things systems should not do. They should not crash, hang, lose data, violate privacy, lose money, destroy your company, or kill your customers.

Lo que primero llamaba la atención era la ausencia total de muebles, lo cual era posible gracias a la utilización sistemática de pequeñas diferencias de nivel a la altura del suelo. De este modo, las zonas destinadas a dormitorios eran excavaciones rectangulares de cuarenta centímetros de profundidad: uno bajaba a la caba en vez de subirte a ella. Las bañeras eran igualmente grandes pilas redondas cuyo reborde estaba situado a ras de suelo.

Travel aesthetics should be just as comfortable and practical as they are fashionable.

African art is functional, it serves a purpose. It's not a dormant. It's not a means to collect the largest cheering section. It should be healing, a source a joy. Spreading positive vibrations.

It is the height of illogic to think that humans originated from anything with lower functionality than themselves—from a something instead of a Someone.

I can't eat and I can't sleep. I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?

I can't eat and I can't sleep. I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?

Useful men stay alive.

Good kitchens are not about size; they are about ergonomics and light.

Sólo es realmente hermoso lo que no sirve para nada. Todo lo que es útil es feo, porque es la expresión de alguna necesidad y las necesidades del hombre son ruines y desagradables, igual que su pobre y enfermiza naturaleza. El rincón más útil de una casa son las letrinas (p.

great web design without functionality is like a sports car with no engine.

websites should look good from the inside and out

with an opening in the center of the robe like that of a garment, with a collar around the opening so that it would not tear.