Quotes About Functionality

We know the number of conference rooms and phone booths that make a building successful.

One of the things I've come to appreciate about the brain is the importance of location. It's not just a set of interchangeable parts that you can swap in and out.

When I have to do something fast, I wear the most unflattering rubber pants over my pants and a big easy sweater. I can get on my knees in the garden in whatever condition, and when I'm done, I can take it off, get in the car, and drive to the office. It's the most practical thing.

I think the chance of finding beauty is higher if you don't work on it directly. Beauty in architecture is driven by practicality. This is what you learn from studying the old townscapes of the Swiss farmers.

I like to think of synthetic biology as liquid alchemy, only instead of transmuting precious metals, you're synthesizing new biological functionality inside very small channels. It's called microfluidics.

By irreducibly complex I mean a single system composed of several well-matched, interacting parts that contribute to the basic function, wherein the removal of any one of the parts causes the system to effectively cease functioning.

Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.

It is not necessary to be large to be a perfectly good arthropod (or mollusc, come to that).

William Morris that you should have nothing in your house that you didn't know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.

Morris says that you should have nothing in your house that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful," she

Never present a power-user option in such a way that normal users must learn all about it in order to know they don't need to use it.

The software is where the magic is. If you're going to have all this power be simple enough, appealing enough and cool enough, it's going to be because the software is right.

People shouldn't really have to think about an object when they are using it. Not having to think about it makes the relationship between a person and an object run more smoothly.

If you want a golden rule that will fit everything, this is it: Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.

Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.

Have nothing in your house you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.

Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful"- 1834

The fact that changes in our gut affect our brain's response to negativity or emotionally stirring images is just mind-boggling. But it's also empowering. It means that what we put in our mouths and how we feed our gut bacteria do indeed affect our brain's functionality.

I'm not sure if I know any 'functional' families, if functional means a family without difficult times and members who don't have a full range of problems.

Don't try to refactor and add functionality at the same time.

We don't use these technologies because they are huge, connected, and complex. We use them because they work.

She thanked the toilet, but it did not respond. That was good—if she started to think of it as a sentient being, it would probably be much harder to poop in its mouth.

The difference between good design and great design is INTELLIGENCE

first law. In every animal… a more frequent and continuous use of any organ gradually strengthens, develops and enlarges that organ… while the permanent disuse of any organ imperceptibly weakens and deteriorates it, and progressively diminishes its functional capacity, until it finally disappears.second law. All the acquisitions or losses wrought by nature in individuals… are preserved by reproduction to the new individuals which arise.