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“... we are obliged to produce the truth by the power that demands truth and needs it in order to function: we are constrained, we are condemned to admit the truth or to discover it. Power constantly asks questions and questions us; it constantly investigates and records; it institutionalizes the search for the truth, professionalizes it, and rewards it. ... In a different sense, we are also subject to the truth in the sense that truth lays down the law: it is the discourse of truth that decides, at least in part; it conveys and propels effects of power.”

Needs Different Law Order Asks Records Subjects Effects Produce Demand Function Lays Rewards Discourse Obliged Knowledge And Power

Author:Michel Foucault

“What I do has to be a function of what I can do, not a function of what people ask me to do.”

People I Can Asks Can Do Function Ask Me

Author:Tim Berners-Lee

“Psychiatry is all biological and all social. There is no mental function without brain and social context. To ask how much of mind is biological and how much social is as meaningless as to ask how much of the area of a rectangle is due to its width and how much to its height”

Mind Asks Social Brain Areas Function Dues Height Meaningless Psychiatry Width Rectangles

Author:Leon Eisenberg

“A well-known magazine asks a man how they should refer to him, as Psychologist X, as Author X? He suggests man of letters, for that is what he is, in the eighteenth-century meaning. But they can't buy that because the word doesn't exist in Time-style; he cannot be that, and presumably the old function of letters cannot exist.”

Men Should Wells Asks Known Century Style Letters Function Magazines Well Known Psychologist

Book:Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society

Source: Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society

“I think both science and art are impelled by curiosity: What's really happening? How do things really function? How can I really engage with the world around me? These are questions that artists and scientists both ask.”

Thinking World Art Artist Asks Happenings Scientist Function Curiosity Art And Science

Author:Amy Hardie

“If you don't do any self-examinations or see a doctor ever, you'll live forever. That's how you do it. The diagnosis is what gets you. You just have a don't ask, don't tell policy with any and all bodily functions.”

Ifs Self Asks Forever Policy Doctors Function Examination Diagnosis Live Forever Self-examination Bodily Functions

Author:Janeane Garofalo

“Writing is very castrating in the moment. Fiction in general, it has no function, nobody asks for it.”

Writing Moments Asks Fiction Function

Author:Etgar Keret

“There's real "right brain" creativity that goes into all of the organizational processes that a company utilizes and must continually reinvent in order to conduct its business. But there are also the "left brain" accounting functions that must continually ask how the company is doing financially and whether the creative processes are working for the bottom line.”

Real Order Asks Left Process Lines Brain Company Creativity Creative Function Bottom Creative Process Bottom Line Accounting Organizational Left Brain

Author:John Kao

“Having no purpose is the function of art, so somebody else can look at it and ask a question. Design is different - you're supposed to understand what's going on. You can be delighted by it, intrigued by it, but you're supposed to know it's a hot dog stand.”

Knows Looks Art Different Purpose Asks Dog Design Function Hot Delighted Intrigued Hot Dog

Author:Paula Scher

“If someone should ask, "how should an Opposition function?" the best answer would be, "in the manner of a traditional mother-in-law who watches the performance of household work by a daughter-in-law and follows her about with her comments.”

Ifs Should Would Be Law Mother Asks Answers Watches Daughter Performances Function Traditional Opposition Comment Household In-laws Mother In Law Daughter In Law

Book:A Writer's Nightmare: Selected Essays, 1958-1988

Source: A Writer's Nightmare: Selected Essays, 1958-1988

“It is the function of a liberal university not to give right answers, but to ask right questions.”

Giving Asks Justice Answers Diversity Function Social Justice University Right Answers Right Questions

Book:Art & ardor: essays

Source: Art & ardor: essays

“All appeals to Scripture are appeals to interpretations of Scripture. The only real question is: whose interpretation? People with differing interpretations of Scripture cannot set a Bible on a table and ask it to resolve their differences. In order for the Scripture to function as an authority, it must be read and interpreted by someone. According to "solo" Scriptura, that someone is each individual, so ultimately, there are as many final authorities as there are human interpreters.”

People Humans Real Order Asks Individual Differences Authority Function Tables Finals Scripture Appeals Resolve Interpretation Catholicism Solo Interpreter Real Questions

Author:Keith Mathison

“Design is... above all an effort to improve reality... I always try to begin with considerations of its function... I ask myself, who needs it, which materials best suit its functions and so on.”

Needs Trying Reality Asks Effort Design Materials Function Suits Consideration

Author:Gianfranco Frattini