“Telephones in 2020 will be archaic, relics of a bygone era-like transistor radios are today. Telephony, which will be entirely IP-based by then, will be a standard communications chip on many devices. We'll probably carry some kind of screen-based reading device that will perform this function, though I assume when we want to communicate verbally, we'll do so through a tiny, earplug-based device.” WantKindTodayReadingCommunicationStandardsFunctionAssumingRadioCommunicateScreensTinyErasDevicesTelephonesChipsRelicsTransistors Author:Josh Quittner
“Art is the means by which we communicate what it feels like to be alive - in the past, that was mixed up with other illustrative duties, but that was still its central function that has been liberated in the art called modern.” FeelsMeanHas BeensArtStillsPastAliveModernDutyArt IsFunctionCommunicateLiberated Author:Antony Gormley
“An honest design communicates solely the functions and values it offers. It does not attempt to manipulate buyers and users with promises it cannot keep.” DoeValuesHonestDesignPromiseOffersFunctionCommunicateUsersManipulateBuyers Author:Dieter Rams
“I chose the Xperia based on its functions. Apart from using the phone to communicate, I also use it to take pictures. The image quality with this cell phone is great.” UseQualityFunctionPhonesCommunicateCellsCell Phone Author:Okky Madasari
“There are some actresses who cannot function on the set without having a close relationship with their directors. Their way of communicating with the director is through intimacy. It doesn't necessarily have to do with any physical act; it has more to do with achieving a closeness that they find very valuable.” WayAchieveDirectorsFunctionCommunicateValuableActressesIntimacyClosenessClose Relationship Author:Peter Stone
“The human condition is what it is. We can see beauty and wonder in the world, but we also face imminent death and uncertainty, and we often need to sidestep the idea of time and communicate with each other, not with words but with a sense of community and union. I don't want to make an overreaching statement, but I think that's the function of culture.” ThinkingWorldWantNeedsHumansIdeasFacesCultureCommunityWonderConditionsFunctionUnionsCommunicateStatementsUncertaintyHuman ConditionOverreachingImminent Death Author:Justin Adams
“When I say or write something, there are actually a whole lot of different things I am communicating. The propositional content (i.e., the verbal information I'm trying to convey) is only one part of it. Another part is stuff about me, the communicator. Everyone knows this. It's a function of the fact there are so many different well-formed ways to say the same basic thing, from e.g. "I was attacked by a bear!" to "Goddamn bear tried to kill me!" to "That ursine juggernaut did essay to sup upon my person!" and so on.” KnowsWayWritingTryingWellsPersonsDifferentWholeFactsStuffInformationBearsFunctionCommunicateDifferent ThingsEssaysKill MeCommunicatorsBasic ThingsJuggernaut Author:David Foster Wallace
“No other art-medium–neither painting nor poetry–can communicate the specific quality of the dream as well as the film can. When the lights go down in the cinema and this white shining point opens up for us, our gaze stops flitting hither and thither, settles and becomes quite steady. We just sit there, letting the images flow out over us. Our will ceases to function. We lose our ability to sort things out and fix them in their proper places. We're drawn into a course of events–we're participants in a dream. And manufacturing dreams, that's a juicy business.” WellsArtDreamLightFilmCoursesLosesAbilityWhiteQualityEventsPaintingFlowFunctionShiningCommunicateCeaseMediumsSettlingCinemaSteadyManufacturingParticipantsJuicy Author:Ingmar Bergman
“The function of high school, then, is not so much to communicate knowledge as to oblige children finally to accept the grading system as a measure of their inner excellence. And a function of the self-destructive process in American children is to make them willing to accept not their own, but a variety of other standards, like a grading system, for measuring themselves. It is thus apparent that the way American culture is now integrated it would fall apart if it did not engender feelings of inferiority and worthlessness.” IfsWayChildrenSelfFeelingsSchoolFallCultureProcessEducationAcceptingWillingStandardsHigh SchoolFunctionExcellenceCommunicateVarietyDestructiveFalling ApartAmerican CultureIntegratedInferiorityMeasuringSelf DestructiveUnschoolingWorthlessness Author:Jules Henry