Function Quotes

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Everything God does has purpose and intention behind that design. It is a master design, and every little thing has its proper place and function. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Certainly architecture is concerned with much more than just its physical attributes. It is a many-layered thing. Beneath and beyond the strata of function and… — Charles Correa
There is an old saying about the strength of the wolf is the pack, and I think there is a lot of truth to that.… — Bill Belichick
The extinction of the human race will come from its inability to EMOTIONALLY comprehend the exponential function. — Edward Teller
Wit penetrates; humor envelops. Wit is a function of verbal intelligence; humor is imagination operating on good nature. — Peggy Noonan
To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is… — Abraham Lincoln
In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function. — Michael Graves
Good design is not about form following function. It is function with cultural content. By adding "cultural content" to the concept of "form follows function,"… — Carl Magnusson
The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them. — Mary Schmich
Risk is a function of how poorly a strategy will perform if the 'wrong' scenario occurs. — Michael Porter
I'm a storyteller - that's the chief function of a director. And they're moving pictures, let's make 'em move! — Howard Hawks
The basic need of the creator is independence. The reasoning mind cannot work under any form of compulsion. It cannot be curbed, sacrificed or subordinated… — Ayn Rand
To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function… — Margaret Barber
No matter how closely we look, it is difficult to find a mental act that can take place without the support of some physical function. — Moshe Feldenkrais
The only useful function of a statistician is to make predictions, and thus to provide a basis for action. — W. Edwards Deming
In accordance with the prarabdha of each, the One whose function it is to ordain makes each to act. What will not happen will never… — Ramana Maharshi
I'm not in favor of no government. You do need a government. But by doing so many things that the government has no business doing,… — Milton Friedman
The only proper functions of a government are: the police, to protect you from criminals; the army, to protect you from foreign invaders; and the… — Ayn Rand
If the human being is condemned and restricted to perform the same functions over and over again, he will not even be a good ant,… — Norbert Wiener
What guides Marxism, then, is a different model of society, and a different conception of the function of the knowledge that can be produced by… — Jean-Francois Lyotard

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