Function Quotes

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

I certainly respect privacy and privacy rights. But on the other hand, the first function of government is to guarantee the security of all the people.

My father taught me Basic and rudimentary C, I learned everything else on my own, including studying computational complexity on my own. That's more a function of my age than anything else though - back when I was in school there were hardly any programming classes.

The true function of philosophy is to educate us in the principles of reasoning and not to put an end to further reasoning by the introduction of fixed conclusions.

The first and most optimistic response was complete rational expectations econometrics. A rational expectations equilibrium is a likelihood function. Maximize it.

Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction.

Dynamism is a function of change.

Men seek for vocabularies that are reflections of reality. To this end, they must develop vocabularies that are selections of reality. And any selection of reality must, in certain circumstances, function as a deflection of reality.

There has been a strong tradition in this country that it is not the function of the military to educate the public on political issues.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

The regulation of medicine has been a State function.

The lawyer has not reached the height of his vocation who does not find therein... scope for a peculiar but genuine artistic function.

The function of intellect is to provide a means of modifying our reactions to the circumstances of life, so that we may secure pleasure, the symptom of welfare.

Real biologists who actually do the research will tell you that they almost never find a phenomenon, no matter how odd or irrelevant it looks when they first see it, that doesn't prove to serve a function. The outcome itself may be due to small accidents of evolution.

To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.

We Chileans have to be able to understand that in a democracy institutions must function freely and with sovereignty.

Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure.

Whether people care enough about local news to pay for it is, sadly, an entirely different question than whether our democracy requires a strong watchdog function at the local level to ensure safeguards against abuse, chicanery, and outright dishonesty.

Separation of power says the judiciary committee is supposed to confirm qualified judges and then what the Supreme Court does, that is their function, not my function.

It's not the function of Congress to do criminal investigations.

The most important function of a bibliographic entry is to help the reader obtain a copy of the cited work.

It is the function of science to discover the existence of a general reign of order in nature and to find the causes governing this order. And this refers in equal measure to the relations of man - social and political - and to the entire universe as a whole.

If consciousness can function independently of the body during one's lifetime, it could be able to do the same after death.

I was on various anti-depressants, but not for long - I didn't function very well on them. I felt sort of flattened out.

I'm a storyteller - that's the chief function of a director. And they're moving pictures, let's make 'em move!

Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.

When do you know you're insane? And when do you known you're sane? I think I treat a fine line between the two. It's a battle to function, but somehow I manage.

I think the first things that are relevant are that things should work well; they should function.

In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function.

The engineer, and more generally the designer, is concerned with how things ought to be - how they ought to be in order to attain goals, and to function.