#function

The smaller the function, the greater the management. ↗

— C. Northcote Parkinson

#greater #management #smaller

As can be seen even by this limited number of examples proteins carry out amazingly diverse functions. ↗

— Michael Behe

#carry #diverse #even #examples #functions

The Internet is a bright spot for our struggling economy and functioning just fine without what amounts to a federal pat-down of the inner workings of the Internet. ↗

— Mary Bono

#economy #federal #fine #functioning #inner

The function of sociology, as of every science, is to reveal that which is hidden. ↗

— Pierre Bourdieu

#function #hidden #reveal #science #sociology

Cage's Music of Changes was a further indication that the arts in general were beginning to consciously deal with the "given" material and, to varying degrees, liberating them from the inherited, functional concepts of control. ↗

— Earle Brown

#beginning #cage #changes #concepts #consciously

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

— William Burroughs

#function #functioning #happiness #happy #simply

A functioning police state needs no police. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#needs #police #police state #state

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. ↗

— Bram Cohen

#any #anything #back #basic #classes

I don't think it's the function of Congress to function well. It should drag its heels on the way to decision. ↗

— Barber Conable

#decision #drag #function #heels #i

You were tossed away like a pair of beautiful, brand new shoes that did not quite fit. ↗

— Donna K. Childree

#adoption #dysfunctional-families #dysfunctional-family #mothers #the-wayward-gifted