“I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, "What happened next?” FirstsBelieveChildrenNextAnswersHappenedFunctionNarrativeHistorianMatured Author:A. J. P. Taylor
“It is not easy to be a Witch, a bender, a shaper, one of the Wise; nor is it safe, comfortable, laid back, mellow, uplifting, or a guarantee of Peace of mind. It requires openness, vulnerability, courage and work. It gives no answers, only tasks to be done and questions to consider....It functions in those deeper ways of knowing which our culture has denied and for which we hunger.” WayGivingMindDoneCultureEasyAnswersKnowingWiseSafeComfortableTasksFunctionHungerDeeperUpliftingVulnerabilityGuaranteesPeace Of MindWorking ItOpennessWitchDeniedMellowLaid Back Author:Starhawk
“after a generation or two of shedding the deliberate political encumbrances to war ... of dropping Congress from the equation altogether, of super-empowering the presidency with total war-making power and with secret new war-making resources that answer to no one but him, of insulating the public from not only the cost of war but sometimes even the knowledge that it's happened - war making has become almost an autonomous function of the American state. It never stops.” TwoWarSometimesStatesPoliticalAnswersSecretGenerationsHappenedCostResourcesFunctionCongressEmpoweringPresidencyEquationsDeliberateDroppingTotal WarAutonomousCost Of War Author:Rachel Maddow
“Scoring is a function of great execution, and winning is the result, but thinking about winning can pull your focus off of proper execution in a competition. Thinking about process is the answer.” ThinkingWinningProcessAnswersResultsFocusFunctionCompetitionExecution Author:Lanny Bassham
“Philosophical questions are not by their nature insoluble. They are, indeed, radically different from scientific questions, because they concern the implications and other interrelations of ideas, not the order of physical events; their answers are interpretations instead of factual reports, and their function is to increase not our knowledge of nature, but our understanding of what we know.” KnowsIdeasDifferentScienceOrderUnderstandingAnswersEventsConcernFunctionIncreasePhilosophicalReportsInterpretationImplicationsFactualPhilosophical Questions Author:Susanne Katherina Langer
“Unlike earlier thinkers, who had sought to improve their accuracy by getting rid of error, Laplace realized that you should try to get more error: aggregate enough flawed data, and you get a glimpse of the truth. "The genius of statistics, as Laplace defined it, was that it did not ignore errors; it quantified them," the writer Louis Menand observed. "...The right answer is, in a sense, a function of the mistakes.” ShouldTryingEnoughAnswersMistakeGeniusFunctionErrorsDefinedDataStatisticsThinkerGlimpseFlawedAccuracyRight Answers Author:Kathryn Schulz
“If you were to hire household staff to cook, clean, drive, stoke the fire, and answer the door, can you imagine suggesting that they not talk to each other, not see what each other is doing, not coordinate their functions?” IfsAnswersFireImagineDoorsFunctionCleanCooksHouseholdStaffSuggestingCoordinatesStoke Author:Nicholas Negroponte