#function

I mean that the function of the police is to solve problems that have law-enforcement consequences in a way that is based on a genuine partnership with the neighborhood in both the venting of the problem and the discussion of the solution. ↗

— James Q. Wilson

#both #consequences #discussion #function #genuine

In terms of other functions, we are making a mistake about insisting on a public school monopoly. ↗

— James Q. Wilson

#functions #insisting #making #mistake #monopoly

You see people on TV flying in to places just to pick up a baby, or brush some flies away. That's great if they can bring that issue to public attention. But that's not what I wanted to do. I was interested in committing to something that I could function in whether I was Debra Winger or not. Because nobody might care about that next week. ↗

— Debra Winger

#attention #away #baby #because #bring

Our ultimate goal is extensible programming (EP). By this, we mean the construction of hierarchies of modules, each module adding new functionality to the system. ↗

— Niklaus Wirth

#construction #each #functionality #goal #hierarchies

God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

#been #fooling #forever #function #god

In the animal world, on the other hand, the process of evolution is characterised by the progressive discrimination of the animal and vegetative functions, and a consequent differentiation of these two great provinces into their separate departments. ↗

— Wilhelm Wundt

#animal world #characterised #consequent #departments #differentiation

I hope before I am getting too old and when my mind is still functioning, I can tell some better stories. ↗

— Zhang Yimou

#before #better #functioning #getting #hope

Seeing our VH-1 Behind the Music shows just how dysfunctional some of the moments of the band were but this new line-up has put the fun back in dysfunction. ↗

— James Young

#band #behind #dysfunction #dysfunctional #fun

In my own mind, we are a much happier and much more functional family and a much more well balanced group of individual s both off and on the stage - in the current incarnation. ↗

— James Young

#both #current #family #functional #group

I definitely have managed to overcome dyslexia now to become a fully functional human being but things were a lot more difficult when I was younger. ↗

— Ahmet Zappa

#being #definitely #difficult #dyslexia #fully