“The Library is an open sanctuary. It is devoted to individual intellectual inquiry and contemplation. Its function is to provide free access to ideas and information. It is a haven of privacy, a source of both cultural and intellectual sustenance for the individual reader. Since it is thus committed to free and open inquiry on a personal basis, the Library must remain open, with access to it always guaranteed.” IdeasIndividualHavensInformationSourceReaderIntellectualFunctionBasesLibraryCommittedAccessContemplationPrivacyCensorshipDevotedInquiryFirst AmendmentSanctuarySustenanceFreedom To Read Author:Robert G. Vosper
“...quantity is not necessarily synonymous with quality and brilliant ideas are not a function of the number of titles printed.” IdeasNumbersQualityEconomicsFunctionBrilliantTitlesQuantityPrintedBrilliant Ideas Author:Carlo M. Cipolla
“The aim of the popularization of economic studies is not to make every man an economist. The idea is to equip the citizen for his civic functions in community life.” MenIdeasPhilosophyPoliticalCommunityStudyEconomicCitizensEconomicsFunctionAimEvery ManEconomistCivics Book:Bureaucracy Source: Bureaucracy
“Human beings are compelled to adopt a belief system; some paradigm to provide meaning, purpose, and understanding to our lives. A quick survey of the world shows that pretty much any idea will do - it need not reflect reality or truth, merely function to fascinate, distract, and compel. We are designed for belief, not for truth.” WorldNeedsHumansIdeasShowsRealityPurposeBeliefUnderstandingHuman BeingsOur LivesFunctionCompelledParadigmSurveysBelief Systems Author:Terry Rossio
“[T]he influence of the German school is most obvious in relation to the contract theory of the origin of the state and the idea of the function of the state. The theory that the state originates in an agreement between men was assailed by the German thinkers and the historical, organic, evolutionary idea substituted for it.” MenIdeasStatesGovernmentSchoolInfluenceTheoryFunctionRelationHistoricalObviousAgreementContractsThinker Author:Charles Edward Merriam
“The word dysfunction has, I think, served its purpose and now has lost its meaning. Every family, like every person, is imperfect, after all. The idea that there is a family somewhere who functions, is an odd concept. In my youth I was running from my family to try to find out who I was-their influence distracted me. Now I see what a powerful hold they have, no matter what.” ThinkingTryingPersonsIdeasMatterRunningPurposeLostPowerfulInfluenceYouthConceptsMy FamilyFunctionNo Matter WhatOddImperfectDistractedDysfunction Author:Susan Minot
“The writers are writing human beings, and they're writing about the human condition and how difficult it is to function in that condition. I think it's one of the charms of the show, the idea of redemption and working towards becoming better people, for everybody involved.” PeopleThinkingWritingHumansIdeasShowsDifficultHuman BeingsConditionsBecomingInvolvedFunctionRedemptionCharmHuman ConditionBecoming Better Author:George Dzundza
“The allotted function of art is not, as is often assumed, to put across ideas, to propagate thoughts, to serve as an example. The aim of art is to prepare a person for death, to plough and harrow his soul, rendering it capable of turning to good.” PersonsArtIdeasSoulExampleCapableArt IsFunctionAimRendering Author:Andrei Tarkovsky
“I think . . . that philosophy has the duty of pointing out the falsity of outworn religious ideas, however estimable they may be as a form of art. We cannot act as if all religion were poetry while the greater part of it still functions in its ancient guise of illicit science and backward morals. . . .” IfsThinkingMayArtStillsIdeasPhilosophyFormReligiousMoralGreaterDutyFunctionAncientHumanistPointingGuiseFalsity Author:Corliss Lamont
“A man-made thing that produces pleasure (and criticism) by somehow taping into the order of the universe is beautiful. Making beautiful things makes our lives worthwhile. My teacher, and one of the founders of the Pratt industrial design program, Rowena Reed Kostellow, said, "Pure, unadulterated beauty should be the goal of civilization." From a pragmatic point of view, for something to be beautiful, it has to work. In order to make this idea clearer I have combined the ideas of beauty and function into one word: Beautility.” MenShouldMadeSaidIdeasBeautifulOrderUniverseGoalPleasureViewsTeacherOur LivesDesignProduceCivilizationPureProgramCriticismFunctionPoint Of ViewWorthwhileFoundersBeautiful ThingsOne WordPragmaticReedsIndustrial DesignMan Made Things Author:Tucker Viemeister
“The essential function of the (design) profession in our society is to enhance and cultivate communications toward: Easier understanding of ideas and complex problems, in the shortest possible time and higher visual and auditory retention of data.” IdeasProblemUnderstandingDesignCommunicationHigherEasierEssentialsFunctionComplexesProfessionDataVisualsOur SocietyRetentionComplex ProblemsAuditory Author:Will Burtin
“I had a very bad torn groin, my abdomen right through my legs. I was finding it really hard to get in the ring and run around and function at a decent rate. Then they had the idea that it might be better to do a retirement thing.” IdeasHardMightRunningFindingsFunctionRateLegsRingsDecentRetirementTornAbdomen Author:Owen Hart
“I haven't come across any recent new ideas in film that strike me as being particularly important and that have to do with form. I think that a preoccupation with originality of form is more or less a fruitless thing. A truly original person with a truly original mind will not be able to function in the old form and will simply do something different. Others had much better think of the form as being some sort of classical tradition and try to work within it.” ThinkingTryingMindPersonsImportantIdeasDifferentAbleFilmFormHavensTraditionFunctionOriginalsStrikesOriginalityNew IdeasPreoccupation Author:Stanley Kubrick