Function Quotes

“One of the main functions of a push-up bra is to lower the number of mothers who seem like mothers.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“When you are depressed you are not at peace. You are not at peace because you are not using your creative potential. When you are not using your potential you are not fulfilling your function on earth. So it stands to reason that when you are depressed it is because you are not yet doing what it is you came here to do.”
― Kate McGahan

“Happiness should be a function without any parameters.”
― Pranshu Midha

“When Design become Useless it becomes Art. Yesterday's Artisans are today's Artists.”
― Vineet Raj Kapoor

“The wave quality of light is the same as that of the electron. The wave determines the probable location of the photon of light when it is detected. The wave character of light is not vibrating stuff like a wave of water but rather a wavelike function encoding information about where you'll find the photon of light once it is detected. Until it reaches the detector plate, like the electron, it is seemingly passing through both slits simultaneously, making its mind up about its location only once it is observed [...].
It's this act of observation that is such a strange feature of quantum physics. Until I ask the detector to pick up where the electron is, the particle should be thought of as probabilistically distributed over space, with a probability described by a mathematical function that has wavelike characteristics. The effect of the two slits on this mathematical wave function alters it in such a way that the electron is forbidden from being located at some points on the detector plate. But when the particle is observed, the die is cast, probabilities disappear, and the particle must decide on a location.”
― Marcus du Sautoy, The Great Unknown: Seven Journeys to the Frontiers of Science

“Freedom is a state of mind.
Power is a function of the will.
Free minds radiate power.”
― Nnamdi Azikiwe, Melanin Is Worth More Than Gold: Is This The Era Of The Blessed Generation?

“The toxicity of an electrical wiring error is a function of the dirty electricity and the electrical items plugged into the faulty electrical circuit.”
― Steven Magee

“Shoes need feet to walk! Everything needs something to function!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Advertising is psychologically intrusive; it aims to make people want a particular product. Advertising must be considered as one of the most influential institutions of twentieth century America. By mid-century the country was spending more on advertising than on education or religion (Potter, 1954, p. 178). Unlike other major social institutions like education and religion, advertising has a nearly complete "lack of institutional responsibility" - that is, it has "no motivation to seek the improvement of the individual or to impart qualities of social usefulness" (Potter, 1954, p.177; also see Henry, 1963). Thus advertising is an enormously powerful institution that is largely indifferent to its effects on humanity and society, except for its concern to get people to buy more things.”
― Roy F. Baumeister, Identity: Cultural Change and the Struggle for Self

“The aesthetics aren't merely a side note, they're as important as anything else.”
― Sylvain Neuvel, Sleeping Giants

“Unlocking purpose is a function of a response to something”
― Sunday Adelaja

“The lifestyle you live is a function of what you have discovered”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Different function is a function of different system”
― Sunday Adelaja

“A kingdom established on hatred is a function of denial of God”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Nothing on earth can function successful outside the laws of the kingdom”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Spiritual Requirement Needed To Function Has Been Revealed”
― Sunday Adelaja

“To establish principles of her kingdom is to function In Optimal Health”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Happiness Is Dependent Upon Choosing To Function Within The Laws And Principles Of Kingdom Of God”
― Sunday Adelaja

“To Walk In Direction Is A Function That The Director Is Aware”
― Sunday Adelaja

“You may be scorned in the public because of your race it is a function that there is an assignment for you there”
― Sunday Adelaja

“We must all have a ministry we can function in, no matter how small”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Some might question whether it makes sense to talk about setting up the experiment and running it again with exactly the same conditions--that it is, in fact, impossible. Locally, you might get the conditions exactly the same, but you have to embed the experiment in the universe, and that has moved on. You can't rewind the wave function of the universe and rerun it. The universe is a one-time-only experiment that includes us as part of its wave function, and there's no going back.”
― Marcus du Sautoy, The Great Unknown: Seven Journeys to the Frontiers of Science

“Masturbation is a function of sleep deprivation, electromagnetic exposures, hormones and ingested stimulants.”
― Steven Magee

“The function of creativity is allowing creativity function.”
― Prof.Salam Al Shereida

“Functional analysis and the study of structural complexity should be approached as essentially conjoined programs. Unless both are in place, description and prescription in any form will be untenable, and prospective explanations, interventions, analyses, and critiques will result in dogmatic positions ranging, depending on their contexts, from resigned cynicism to fatalist optimism, from analytic stinginess to speculative overenthusiasm.”
― Reza Negarestani, Intelligence and Spirit

“Only buy what you need. Think function not fashion”
― Harken Headers, Health & Not Screwing It Up

“Love as a function of kindness and generosity solves every problem.”
― Richie Norton

“Baudrillard argues that there used to be a time when the role of objects was primarily to signify rather than to function. Thus, the symbolic structure of the traditional domestic ambience reflected the rituals and traditions of the socio-political order, arranged according to prescriptive and unchanging rules based on, and extracted from, ‘tradition and authority, and whose heart is the complex affective relationship that binds all the family members together […] Hence, the fixed and immovable meanings with which these objects were endowed: if mirrors and family portraits symbolized a particular sense of introspection and enclosure, the clock crowning the marble mantelpiece symbolized both the hierarchical structure of the family and the permanence of time. Linked to one meaning and one meaning only, every object of the traditional domestic interior can thus be understood as theatrical and ceremonial, thus occupying a specific place within the domestic interior exactly as family members occupy a specific position in their corresponding family tree.”
― Francesco Proto, Baudrillard for Architects

“Just as functions within computer science, ecosystems must become first-class citizens in biology. First-class functions are not merely sequences of steps, but genuine entities, which can be passed as arguments to and from other functions in the same manner as other data types. Languages that support this concept have a fundamentally greater expressive power than those that relegate functions to the status of 'second-class citizens' relative to first-class 'data' objects. Biology needs an analogous expressive power in order to refer properly to the role of ecosystems as carriers of fundamental patterns, and as entities parallel to and in some ways superseding organisms.”
― Eric Smith, The Origin and Nature of Life on Earth: The Emergence of the Fourth Geosphere

“Our language is shaped by the context in which we are communicating: we select the words that fit our function.”
― Evan Davis, Post-Truth: Why We Have Reached Peak Bullshit and What We Can Do About It