#function

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #function




The most important precedents deal with the whole idea of symbolic programming - the notion of setting up symbolic expressions that can represent anything one wants, and then having functions that operate on both their structure and content.


Stephen Wolfram


#both #content #deal #expressions #functions

You know the definition of a dysfunctional family, don't you? It's any family with more than one member in it.


Sarah Pekkanen


#family

A family can be the bane of one's existence. A family can also be most of the meaning of one's existence. I don't know whether my family is bane or meaning, but they have surely gone away and left a large hole in my heart.


Keri Hulme


#family #relationships #family

It is hundreds of tiny threads of memories, which sew people together through the years. Despite, their mental separation they stay woven into that tapestry out of habit, emotion, obsession or fear.


Shannon L. Alder


#dysfunctional-families #family #marriage #relationships #family

Death is a personal matter, arousing sorrow, despair, fervor, or dry-hearted philosophy. Funerals, on the other hand, are social functions. Imagine going to a funeral without first polishing the automobile. Imagine standing at a graveside not dressed in your best dark suit and your best black shoes, polished delightfully. Imagine sending flowers to a funeral with no attached card to prove you had done the correct thing. In no social institution is the codified ritual of behavior more rigid than in funerals. Imagine the indignation if the minister altered his sermon or experimented with facial expression. Consider the shock if, at the funeral parlors, any chairs were used but those little folding yellow torture chairs with the hard seats. No, dying, a man may be loved, hated, mourned, missed; but once dead he becomes the chief ornament of a complicated and formal social celebration.


John Steinbeck


#funerals #rituals #social-functions #death

Furthermore, order is a necessary condition for making a structure function. A physical mechanism, be it a team of laborers, the body of an animal, or a machine, can work only if it is in physical order.


Rudolf Arnheim


#body #condition #function #furthermore #laborers

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.


James A. Baldwin


#control #describing #every #function #language

The function of posterity is to look after itself.


Dylan Thomas


#function #itself #look #posterity

Worrying is the most natural and spontaneous of all human functions.


Lewis Thomas


#human #most #natural #spontaneous #worrying

Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.


James Dewar


#like #minds #only #open #parachutes