Function Quotes

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Human identity is fundamentally an illusion; itâ€™s an evolutionary overhang which lets us function as coherent self-aware animals. But, on a deep level, we have… — Sarah Newton
C being what it is lacks support for multiple return values, so the notion that it is meaningful to pass pointers to memory objects into… — Erik Naggum
Scientific physiology has the task of determining the functions of the animal body and deriving them as a necessary consequence from its elementary conditions. — Carl Ludwig
The smaller the function, the greater the management. — C. Northcote Parkinson
Who has not been amazed to learn that the function y = ex, like a phoenix rising from its own ashes, is its own derivative? — Francois Le Lionnais
This organ deserves to be styled the starting point of life and the sun of our microcosm just as much as the sun deserves to… — William Harvey
A good coach is postive. Your job when coaching is not correcting mistakes, finding fault, and assessing blame. Instead, your function is achieving goals by… — Marshall Cook
We were all delighted, we all realized we were leaving confusion and nonsense behind and performing our one and noble function of the time, move. — Jack Kerouac
Vegetables are organized bodies that grow on the dry areas of the globe and within its waters. Their function is to combine immediately the four… — Antoine Lavoisier
The cocktail party has a simple function in modern society. Its basic purpose is to pay off social debts. — Hal Boyle
It is a function of poetry to locate those zones inside us that would be free, and declare them so. — C.D. Wright
That humankind has fallen into the insanity of concensus trance, and lost touch with our true possibilities and functions is a tragedy. — Charles Tart
The will is not merely assertive, aggressive, and controlling. There is the accepting will, yielding will, the dedicated will. You might say that there is… — Roberto Assagioli
It is certainly true that cooking is therapeutic, creative and all those other faintly creepy self-helpish words. I would love to tell you that learning… — Steve Almond
In a sense, the first (if not necessarily the prime) function of a novelist, of ANY artist, is to entertain. If the poem, painting, play… — Brigid Brophy
Your function as a critic is to show that it is really you yourself who should have written the book, if you had had the… — Stephen Potter
If the estimated age of the cosmos were shortened to seventy-two years, a human life would take about ten seconds. But look at time the… — Robert Grudin
Computers are everywhere and you can't even begin to function with a computer unless you have comprehension and an understanding of the English language. — Wally Amos
So, I have the responsibility of making sure that HUD functions and runs well. — Alphonso Jackson
The 'deep' civic function of the humanities . . . is something understood very well by totalitarian societies, which tend to keep close tabs on… — Mark Slouka

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