Functions Quotes

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Here and there in the ancient literature we encounter legends of wise and mysterious games that were conceived and played by scholars, monks, or the… — Hermann Hesse
There's a real separation between actors and all the other functions of Hollywood. If you're an actor you're somehow not a member of the crew.… — Rider Strong
It would add much to human happiness, if an art could be taught of forgetting all of which the remembrance is at once useless and… — Samuel Johnson
Where to begin? Do we measure the relaxing of the feet? The moment when the eye glimpses the hawk, when instinct functions? For in this… — Peter Matthiessen
Software entities (classes, modules, functions, etc.) should be open for extension, but closed for modification. — Bertrand Meyer
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
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
Generally, the craft of programming is the factoring of a set of requirements into a a set of functions and data structures. — Douglas Crockford
When a pastor continually makes light of the character of our Lord by speaking in scatological tones about the Son of Man's bodily functions in… — Steve Camp
As no outward motion or change, when normal, in man's external body can take place unless provoked by an inward impulse, given through one of… — Helena
Paradoxically one of the greatest advantages of mind maps is that they are seldom needed again. The very act of constructing a map is itself… — Peter Russell
The secret to the city is integration. Every area of the city should combine work, leisure and culture. Separate these functions and parts of the… — Jaime Lerner
Each of us has been designed for one of two immortal functions, as either a storyteller or as a cross-legged listener to tales of wonder,… — Bryce Courtenay
This is one of the great social functions of science - to free people from superstition — Steven Weinberg
The corporations plainly want academic scholarship to create a web of mystification that will avoid any public awareness of the way in which power actually… — Noam Chomsky
Almost always great new ideas don't emerge from within a single person or function, but at the intersection of functions or people that have never… — Clayton Christensen
The functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy. — Dean Koontz
I think one of poetry's functions is not to give us what we want... The poet isn't always of use to the tribe. The tribe… — Heather McHugh
The Sexual Revolution is a complete rebellion against authority, natural and supernatural, even against the body and its needs, its natural functions of child bearing.… — Dorothy Day
One of the great functions of art is to help us imagine what it is like to be not ourselves, what it is like to… — Adrienne Rich

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