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
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
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
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
EAT, v.i. To perform successively (and successfully) the functions of mastication, humectation, and deglutition. — Ambrose Bierce 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
How hard is it, when everything encourages us to sleep, though we may look about us with conscious, clinging eyes, to wake… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
Misogyny comes naturally to a young man in his late teens; it is a function of the powerful homosocial impulses that flower… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Most of the people who claim to be doing systems biology are really studying simple and complex molecular machines and how they… — Leroy Hood Copy Share Image
A cabinet is a combining committee, a hyphen which joins, a buckle which fastens, the legislative part of the state to the… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
As an actor, I function from a place of compassion and empathy - you have to believe 100 percent what your character… — Clare Bowen Copy Share Image
It is time to recognize conventional MBA programs for what they are - or else to close them down. They are specialized… — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts?… — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
Psychiatry is all biological and all social. There is no mental function without brain and social context. To ask how much of… — Leon Eisenberg Copy Share Image
Society, community, family are all conserving institutions. They try to maintain stability, and to prevent, or at least to slow down, change.… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Where these reduced (operational - E.W.) concepts govern the analysis of the human reality, individual or social, mental or material, they arrive… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
The law has been perverted, and the powers of the state have become perverted along with it. The law has not only… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
The average man is what his environment and his superstitions have made him; and their function is to make him an ass.… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Last night I encountered a dream cat with a very long neck and a body like a human fetus, gray and transluscent.… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Why ... do the myths of America the Hateful take such powerful hold? Because anti-Americanism provides a useful emotional function which goes… — Michael Gove Copy Share Image
My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest... no country in the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Pictures are the idea in visual or pictorial form; and the idea has to be legible, both in the individual picture and… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Zuzana arched an eyebrow. She was a master of the eyebrow arch, and Karou envied her for it. Her own eyebrows did… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
In the 1980s, there were occasions when it made sense to say, 'it is too difficult to maximize the likelihood function, and… — Thomas J. Sargent Copy Share Image
I will have spent my life trying to understand the function of remembering, which is not the opposite of forgetting, but rather… — Chris Marker Copy Share Image
The unique function of the nurse is to assist the individual, sick or well, in the performance of those activities contributing to… — Virginia Henderson Copy Share Image
Since the idea that modification of synaptic function can provide a basis for memory arose shortly after the first anatomical description of… — Gerald Edelman Copy Share Image
Those things which now most engage the attention of men, as politics and the daily routine, are, it is true, vital functions… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
[Islam] Leaves no room of human legislation in an Islamic state, because herein all legislative functions vest in God and the only… — Abul A'la Maududi Copy Share Image
By adherence to a special set of rules, the child of the shabby-genteel can sometimes leap across the time which has passed… — Murray Kempton Copy Share Image
A political system seeking to function amongst ignorant, illiterate and barbaric people could have marvelous principles but could only succeed in being… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
The freedom to make and admit mistakes is at the core of the scientific process. If we are asked to forswear error,… — Robert Pollack Copy Share Image
A currency serves three functions: providing a means of payment, a unit of account and a store of value. Gold may be… — Nouriel Roubini Copy Share Image
A leader has to know how the system functions - not just the system of government but the whole social and economic… — Jean Chretien Copy Share Image
My frontal lobe doesn't function well. When I'm out with friends, I typically have a cup of coffee, and that's not good… — May-Britt Moser Copy Share Image
You can't argue with someone who believes, or just passionately suspects, that the poet's function is not to write what he must… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Even an organization that doesn't do much work internationally will benefit from a culturally intelligent strategy to innovation. Working across different generations,… — David Livermore Copy Share Image
Much more than our other needs and endeavors, it is sexuality that puts us on an even footing with our kind: the… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
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