Quotes by Function In the old days when people invented a new function they had something useful in mind. Now, they invent them deliberately just to invalidate our ancestors' reasoning, and that is all they are ever going to get out of them. Henri Poincare functionmindpeople If we function according to our ability alone, we get the glory; if we function according to the power of the Spirit within us, God gets the glory. Henry Blackaby functiongloryspirit Engineering is achieving function while avoiding failure. Henry Petroski engineeringfunctionachieve The full beauty of the subject of generating functions emerges only from tuning in on both channels: the discrete and the continuous. Herbert Wilf functiontuningmath It cannot but happen?that those will survive whose functions happen to be most nearly in equilibrium with the modified aggregate of external forces? This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest. Herbert Spencer external-forcesfunctionsurvival You can still function as a living ruin. Henry Rollins ruinsfunctionstills The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired. Hippocrates restoringfunctiondeveloping To me photography functions as a fossilization of time. Hiroshi Sugimoto functionphotography Perverted pride is a great misfortune in men; but pride in its original function, for which God created it, is indispensable to a proper manhood. Henry Ward Beecher functionpridemen The physical reality is assumed to be the wave function of the whole universe itself. Hugh Jackman functionwavereality Sometimes we don't need words. Rather, it's words that need us. If we were no longer here, words would lose their whole function. They would end up as words that are never spoken, and words that aren't spoken are no longer words. - (Where I'm Likely To Find It) Haruki Murakami functionsometimesneeds Form follows finances instead of function. Ira Flatow functionfinanceform Dynamism is a function of change. Hillary Clinton dynamismfunction To me the function of politics is to make possible the desirable. Indira Gandhi functiondesirablepolitics Human talk is a centrifugal function, ever in flight outwards from what is on the talker's mind. Isak Dinesen functionflightmind Why should it not be the whole function of a word to denote many things? J. L. Austin functionwholeshould I was on various anti-depressants, but not for long - I didn't function very well on them. I felt sort of flattened out. Jack Dee functionwellslong Beauty compelled admiration and erotic yearning; such was its organic function. But never by itself could it command love. Jack Vance admirationeroticfunction It's one of the functions of the theater to shock and titillate and appall, apart from entertain and delight. Jacki Weaver functiondelighttheater Highly-adaptive, informal networks move diagonally and eliptically, skipping entire functions to get things done. Jacques Barzun functiondonemoving«23456789101112»
