Function Quotes
1769 quotes by 1322 authors
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Between two products equal in price, function and quality, the one with the most attractive exterior will win.
— Raymond Loewy
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Each family functions in their own way, by rules reinvented daily. The strangeness of each of us is somehow accommodated so that there can be…
— Niall Williams
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Are our ways of teaching students to ask some questions always correlative with our ways of teaching them not to ask - indeed, to be…
— Barbara Johnson
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Reality is a wave function traveling both backward and forward in time.
— John L. Casti
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Warranty – A notice telling the buyer when the product that was just purchased will no longer function.
— Richard Turner
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We are … the un-proud non-possessors of objects whose chief substance is that of the transient symbol. Our Puritan fear of the love of things…
— Ralph Caplan
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The brilliance here is appropriation: space, form and interface combine to create a Jetsons sound machine. A dream of music access that just hovers, its…
— Tucker Viemeister
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It’s been easier to convince people to hand over half their income, their children to war, and their freedoms in perpetuity - than to engage…
— Stefan Molyneux
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It is merely a metaphor to call competition competitive war, or simply, war. The function of battle is destruction; of competition, construction.
— Ludwig von Mises
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We were resigned to suffering, thinking that we loved outside ourselves, and we perceive that our love is a function of our sorrow, that our…
— Marcel Proust
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Release from fear, worry, and doubt leaves us free to function normally, healthfully, and confidently.
— Joel S. Goldsmith
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Eternity isn't some later time. Eternity isn't a long time. Eternity has nothing to do with time. Eternity is that dimension of here and now…
— Joseph Campbell
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There is a role and function for beauty in our time.
— Tadao Ando
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No two minds ever come together without a third invisible force, which may be likened to a 'third mind.' When a group of individual minds…
— Napoleon Hill
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Dancing is an important function of music, but so is crying.
— Katie Melua
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Ask Bill [Gates] why the string in function 9 is terminated by a dollar sign. Ask him, because he can't answer, only I know that.
— Gary Kildall
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Products were once designed for the functions they performed. But when all companies can make products that perform their functions equally well, the distinctive advantage…
— Donald A. Norman
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I believe that the Apple Shuffle is an excellent compromise among the conflicting requirements of simplicity, elegance, size, battery life, and function
— Donald A. Norman
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It is not enough that we build products that function, that are understandable and usable, we also need to build products that bring joy and…
— Donald A. Norman
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Arguably the most important parallel between mass incarceration and Jim Crow is that both have served to define the meaning and significance of race in…
— Michelle Alexander
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