Ask Bill [Gates] why the string in [MS-DOS] function 9 is terminated by a dollar sign. Ask him, because he can't answer.… — Gary Kildall Copy Share Image
We are learning that the earth functions like an invisible organism. We are the various cells of one living being. Those who… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
The village had institutionalized all human functions in forms of low intensity… Participation was high and organization was low. This is the… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
I thought the function of the government was to promote the general welfare, not to provide it. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“The toxicity of an electrical wiring error is a function of the dirty electricity and the electrical items plugged into the faulty… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
I believe it is the photographer's function to reveal that which is concealed, even if it be repugnant to the majority, not… — Arthur Tress Copy Share Image
I believe that the Apple Shuffle is an excellent compromise among the conflicting requirements of simplicity, elegance, size, battery life, and function — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The librarian's mission should be, not like up to now, a mere handling of the book as an object, but rather a… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
We live increasingly in a system in which little direct attention is paid to the object, the function, the program, the task,… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
But one kiss levitates above all the others. The intersection of function and desire. The I do kiss. The I’ll love you… — Jeffrey McDaniel Copy Share Image
The former conviction that these two kingdoms were wholly different in structure, in function, and in kind of life, was not seriously… — Asa Gray Copy Share Image
I think the poet is the last person who is still speaking the truth when no one else dares to. I think… — Diane di Prima Copy Share Image
In some ways, I believe that we are moving into a post-historical period, for lack of a better term. A time when… — Mark Pesce Copy Share Image
There is freedom in being a writer and writing. It is fulfilling your function. I used to think freedom meant doing whatever… — Natalie Copy Share Image
Because Republicans believe that the federal government is limited in its function-some have concluded that Republicans are somehow inherently insensitive to minority… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
If you don't uphold your legal responsibility to enforce the First Amendment, to provide speakers with platforms and audiences with safe, the… — Milo Yiannopoulos Copy Share Image
In the course of normal speaking the inhibitory function of the will is continuously directed to bringing the course of ideas and… — Wilhelm Wundt Copy Share Image
Alpha waves in the human brain are between 6 and 8 hertz. The wave frequency of the human cavity resonates between 6… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
It's impossible to overvalue the importance of television - both in its serious and less serious functions. It's one of our most… — Richard Curtis Copy Share Image
During the last quarter of a century all the authority associated with the function of spiritual guidance ... has seeped down into… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The one function that most gods seem to have in common is to give human existence some ultimate purpose - and, while… — Barbara Smoker Copy Share Image
It appears that a simple rule, of something adhering to another similar idea, repeated, leads to stabilities. This seems to be a… — Cecil Balmond Copy Share Image
There must be a union between the spirit in wood and the spirit in man. The grain of the wood must relate… — George Nakashima Copy Share Image
Centuries of secularism have failed to transform eating into something strictly utilitarian. Food is still treated with reverence...To eat is still something… — Alexander Schmemann Copy Share Image
Computers are merely ingenious devices to fulfill unimportant functions. The computer revolution is an explosion of nonsense. — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
I think masturbating is a really important function in art. People don't like to hear that kind of stuff, but it's true. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
The BBC fulfils a wonderful cultural function. Maybe the problem is that it feels it needs to be everything to everybody. — Andrew Davies Copy Share Image
A coach's primary function should be not to make better players, but to make better people — John Wooden Copy Share Image
All schools, all colleges have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
EAT, v.i. To perform successively (and successfully) the functions of mastication, humectation, and deglutition. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
What does the frontal cortex do? Gratification postponement, executive function, long-term planning, and impulse control. Basically, it makes you do the harder… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
I have to go on writing because I wouldn't be able to go on without writing. It is the only function that… — Farley Mowat Copy Share Image
You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Strategy is the most important department of the art of war, and strategical skill is the highest and rarest function of military… — George Stillman Hillard Copy Share Image
Once I establish credit, I may be able to function. A man needs credit. Especially when he has no money. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
But one way or another, judges perform a very vital function in our society. They have a risky job and they are… — Arlen Specter Copy Share Image
In front of the world, all of a sudden I'm a great athlete and I'm put into an environment with 25 other… — Hope Solo Copy Share Image
That adage about 'Write what you know' is basically the opposite of the way I function. I write about what I'm curious… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
In general, I don't care for scenes of copulation.Certain functions of the human body are bloody private. — William Holden Copy Share Image