“I met my wife [Sukhinder Kaur Gill] in Bombay at an official function. And then we courted for three years. That's a great old term, 'courting’. And we had to do it quietly, of course, because you would know the difficulties one might have with Indian parents. She was advised by her father that people in the West don't take marriage seriously.” PeopleKnowsYearsMightThreeCoursesFatherParentTermWifeMetsFunctionDifficultyWestMy WifeIndianOfficialsThree YearsBombay Author:Glenn Turner
“It's funny because the most sane women I've ever met are my mom and my grandmothers. I think you have to be incredibly sane and self-aware to function in relatively insane environments.” ThinkingSelfEnvironmentMomMetsFunctionMy MomInsaneGrandmotherSaneMy Grandmother Author:Jenny Lawson
“Capitalism has taught us that markets are always more efficient than hierarchical managerial coordination. But in a situation where those three conditions aren't met, I can't outsource or partner with you because markets don't function in the absence of sufficient information.” I CanThreeSituationConditionsInformationTaughtMetsCapitalismFunctionAbsencePartnersSufficientEfficientTaught UsCoordination Author:Clayton Christensen
“I met Glenn [ Greenwald] briefly in 2009. We were both guests on Real Time With Bill Maher. I was the show's guest and he was on the panel. But this was before the Snowden stuff happened. I didn't have the opportunity to meet him in preparation for the movie, unfortunately, for various reasons. But I was able to dive into the main articles he's written, and interviews with him, and just the function that the character serves in the movie, that was enough for me.” RealReasonEnoughCharacterShowsAbleOpportunityStuffWrittenHappenedMetsFunctionBillsVariousPreparationInterviewsArticlesGuestsSnowden Author:Zachary Quinto
“Al-Hallaj has a special destiny. He came at a time when worldliness, the luxury, were inundating the Islamic world. His function was to act as kind of an antithesis to this, and he paid for it with his life, and he was very happy to do so. He smiled as he went to the executioner. That was done because it shook the conscience of the Islamic peoples of that time. But the vast majority, the vast, vast, vast majority of Sufis, they have not met the destiny of al-Hallaj. They have spoken about reaching "the Truth" and there is nothing dangerous about it.” WorldKindDoneDestinySpecialDangerousMetsConscienceFunctionPaidMajorityLuxuryIslamicReachingAlsVery HappySufiAntithesisExecutionersWorldliness Author:Seyyed Hossein Nasr
“The sad end he met in Afghanistan was more accurately a function of his stubborn idealism - his insistence on trying to do the right thing. In which case it wasn't a tragic flaw that brought Tillman down, but a tragic virtue.” TryingEndsCasesVirtueMetsFunctionRight ThingTragicFlawsAfghanistanIdealismStubbornInsistenceTragic Flaw Author:Jon Krakauer
“CMS has a track record of successfully overseeing the many contractors our programs depend on to function. Unfortunately, a subset of those contracts for HealthCare.gov have not met expectations.” RecordsDependsMetsExpectationsProgramFunctionTrackContractsHealthcareTrack RecordContractorOverseeing Author:Marilyn Tavenner