“Sometimes, the elegant implementation is just a function. Not a method. Not a class. Not a framework. Just a function.” SometimesClassFunctionMethodElegantFrameworkImplementation Author:John Carmack
“Advertising is the modern substitute for argument, its function is to make the worse appear the better article. A confused competition of all propagandas -- those insults to human nature -- is carried on by the most expert psychological methods -- for instance, by always repeating a lie.” HumansLyingModernHuman NatureArgumentFunctionMethodCompetitionPsychologicalAdvertisingInstancePropagandaExpertsConfusedInsultSubstitutesArticles Book:The Works of George Santayana Source: The Works of George Santayana
“The mind always functions in an eccentric way, the mind is always an idiot. The really intelligent person has no mind. Intelligence arises out of no-mind, idiocy out of the mind. Mind is idiotic, no-mind is wise. No-mind is wisdom, intelligence. Mind depends on knowledge, on methods, on money, on experience, on this and that. Mind always needs props, it needs supports, it cannot exist on its own. On its own, it flops.” WayNeedsMindPersonsSupportWiseDependsFunctionIntelligentMethodIntelligenceAriseIdiotEccentricPropsIdioticIdiocyIntelligent Person Author:Rajneesh
“I wish that one would be persuaded that psychological experiments, especially those on the complex functions, are not improved [by large studies]; the statistical method gives only mediocre results; some recent examples demonstrate that. The American authors, who love to do things big, often publish experiments that have been conducted on hundreds and thousands of people; they instinctively obey the prejudice that the persuasiveness of a work is proportional to the number of observations. This is only an illusion.” PeopleGivingHas BeensBigsWould BeScienceWishResultsNumbersStudyExampleIllusionFunctionPrejudiceMethodComplexesExperimentsPsychologicalObservationMediocrePublishAmerican Author Author:Alfred Binet
“Let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work. Let us lead them into the healthy world of primitive building methods, where there was meaning in every stroke of an axe, expression in every bite of chisel.” WorldCreativeStudentsBuildingExpressionMaterialsDisciplineHealthyFunctionMethodGuidesBitesPrimitiveStrokesCreative WorkChisels Author:Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
“The purpose and function of government is not to preside over change but to prevent change. By political methods when unavoidable, by violence when convenient.” GovernmentPoliticalPurposeViolenceFunctionMethodConvenient Book:A Voice Crying in the Wilderness Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness