Book Quote by Patrick Nielsen Hayden

We are victims of the post-Enlightenment view that the world functions like a sophisticated machine, to be understood like a textbook engineering problem and…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

As a consequence of these hesitations and of the vague character of such innovations, the Commission on Human Rights itself had doubts from the…

— Rene Cassin

Uses are always much broader than functions, and usually far less contentious. The word function carries overtones of purpose andpropriety, of concern with why…

— Frank Smith

Conservatives believe the economy functions better if the rich have more money and everyone else has less. But they're wrong. It's just the opposite.

— Robert Reich

I promise to myself I will make cars that work and functions worldwide.

— Winfried Vahland

Clearly, as a CEO, you have other functions that are managed by other people.

— Al-Waleed bin Talal

Computers have cut-and-paste functions. So does right-wing historical memory.

— Rick Perlstein

Cities perform most functions in a very Industrial Age model.

— Jennifer Pahlka

The English tradition offers the great tapestry novel, where you have the emotional aspect of a detective's personal life, the circumstances of the crime…

— Elizabeth George

It used to hurt when people ran down my films. I used to feel inferior. I wouldn't go to parties or award functions because…

— Rohit Shetty

Today, you have neuroscientists working on a genetic, behavioural or cognitive level, and then you have informaticians, chemists and mathematicians. They all have their…

— Henry Markram

There are several patients - there are thousands of patients, tens of thousands of patients, that carry either a stimulator in the brain or…

— Miguel Nicolelis

From ancient times, the core idea of the soul is the soul is the capacity to integrate different functions into a single being or…

— John Ortberg

The circulatory system of man and the vertebrate animals can be considered as made up of a small number of organs or subordinate systems,…

— August Krogh

If children do not understand the Constitution, they cannot understand how our government functions, or what their rights and responsibilities are as citizens of…

— John Roberts