W Engine Function Quotes

A philosophical thought is not supposed to be impervious to all criticism; this is the error Whitehead describes of turning philosophy into geometry, and it is useful primarily as a way of gaining short-term triumphs in personal arguments that no one else cares (or even knows) about anyway. A good philosophical thought will always be subject to criticisms (as Heidegger's or Whitehead's best insights all are) but they are of such elegance and depth that they change the terms of debate, and function as a sort of "obligatory passage point" (Latour's term) in the discussions that follow.
Or in other words, the reason Being and Time is still such a classic, with hundreds of thousands or millions of readers almost a century later, is not because Heidegger made "fewer mistakes" than others of his generation. Mistakes need to be cleaned up, but that is not the primary engine of personal or collective intellectual progress. ~ Graham Harman

I thought you could build a story that would function as a machine or else a complex of machines, each one moving separately, yet part of a process that ultimately would produce an emotion or a sequence of emotions. You could swap out parts, replace them if they got too old. And this time you would build in some redundancy, if only just to handle the stress.
One question was: Would the engine still work if you were aware of it, or if you were told how it actually functioned? Maybe this was one of the crucial differences between a story and a machine. ~ Paul Park

Exposure to nature - cold, heat, water - is the most dehumanizing way to die. Violence is passionate and real - the final moments as you struggle for your life, firing a gun or wrestling a mugger or screaming for help, your heart pumps loudly and your body tingles with energy; you are alert and awake and, for that brief moment, more alive and human than you've ever been before. Not so with nature.
At the mercy of the elements the opposite happens: your body slows, your thoughts grow sluggish, and you realize just how mechanical you really are. Your body is a machine, full of tubes and valves and motors, of electrical signals and hydraulic pumps, and they function properly only within a certain range of conditions. As temperatures drop, your machine breaks down. Cells begin to freeze and shatter; muscles use more energy to do less; blood flows too slowly, and to the wrong places. Your sense fade, your core temperature plummets, and your brain fires random signals that your body is too weak to interpret or follow. In that stat you are no longer a human being, you are a malfunction - an engine without oil, grinding itself to pieces in its last futile effort to complete its last meaningless task. ~ Dan Wells

Arnold's notion of the intellectual as disinterested critic distinguished him from both Marx and Hegel. For Marx, the proper function of the intellectual was to be a partisan on behalf of the proletariat, criticizing bourgeois society for its fundamental, structural oppression. For Hegel, the role of the intellectual was to stand above particular group interests, and to bring to consciousness the ethical basis of modern, capitalist society, in the process creating standards by which to guide politics and culture. Arnold's conception of "aliens" has obvious affinities with this Hegelian image of the intellectual. But "disinterestedness" for Arnold had a rather different meaning. It implied the ability to free oneself from partisanship, to take a distanced enough view to be able to criticize the side of the issue to which one had been committed, as circumstances required. "Living by ideas" he wrote, means that "when one side of a question has long had your earnest support, when all your feelings are engaged, when you hear all around you no language but one, when your party talks this language like a steam-engine and can imagine no other--still to be able to think, still to be irresistibly carried, if so it be, by the current of thought to the opposite side of the question..." The role of the intellectual, then, was to embody and encourage that quality of mind that allowed individuals to get some distance from their social, political, and economic milieu; to reflect critically, ~ Jerry Z. Muller

We are identified with the ego, and with the ego there are many things: anger and hatred and jealousy and possessiveness and greed - the whole train. The ego functions like an engine and there are many many compartments following it. Once the ego dies the whole train stops. ~ Rajneesh

At what point do we admit that the NFL's true economic function is to channel our desire for athletic heroism into an engine of nihilistic greed? ~ Steve Almond

Babbage's Three Laws of Difference Engines
First Law: A difference engine must have at least six cogs.
Second Law: A difference engine must be able to operate a loom.
Third law: A difference engine must be able to kill a man, should the mood so take it. ~ Gideon Defoe

Did you take Joyce's engine?'
'My instructions were to disable the car, but one of the men bet Hal a burger he couldn't get the engine out. So Hal removed the engine. ~ Janet Evanovich

It really comes down to parsimony, economy of explanation. It is possible that your car engine is driven by psychokinetic energy, but if it looks like a petrol engine, smells like a petrol engine and performs exactly as well as a petrol engine, the sensible working hypothesis is that it is a petrol engine. ~ Richard Dawkins

Emotional function and cognitive function aren't unrelated to each other. They're completely intertwined. ~ Amishi Jha

Just like the first breath of life, any engine must be triggered in order to turn it on. ~ Toba Beta

There is not an alternative to the US as the engine for growth. ~ Rodrigo Rato

Food is the main engine that drives connectedness, relationship in Chinese society. ~ Nicole Mones

I am for police function that protects citizens of this great Nation, not a police function that is used to terrorize them. ~ Dennis Kucinich

One of these days I would give Pratt and Whitney back this engine and they could send it round airports as an advertisement, wearing a little brass plate reading This engine actually worked in this condition thus enabling Bill Cary to work in his condition. If you, too, are an idiot, P & W engines may save you from yourself. ~ Gavin Lyall

Our primary function is to create an emotion and our secondary function is to sustain that emotions. ~ Alfred Hitchcock

As it turns out, you can function while your heart is being torn to shreds. ~ Jodi Picoult

To transform breakdowns into breakthroughs is the whole function of a master. ~ Rajneesh

From the original watchtower through the anchored balloon to the reconnaissance aircraft and remote sensing-satellites, one and the same function has been indefinitely repeated, the eye's function being the function of a weapon. ~ Paul Virilio

The thirteenth search engine- and without all the features of a web portal, most people thought that was pointless. ~ Sam Altman

[A] pile driver was improvised by mounting a large steam donkey engine, a steam hammer, and a timber tower on a barge. ~ Ray Bottenberg

The steam engine has done much more for science than science has done for the steam engine. ~ William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin

Facebook is not your friend, it is a surveillance engine. ~ Richard Stallman

Faith is a fuel to the engine of soul. ~ Toba Beta

I don't know if I could rebuild an airplane engine, but I know a little bit about rotors and rivets. ~ Dane Cook

We cannot see outside what we are not inside. The universe is to us what the huge engine is to the miniature engine; and indication of any error in the tiny engine leads us to imagine trouble in the huge one. ~ Swami Vivekananda

Happiness is a function of accepting what is. Love is a function of communication. Health is a function of participation. Self expression is a function of responsibility. ~ Werner Erhard

The writer's function is to prevent myths turning into allegories. ~ Michel Tournier

You can still function as a living ruin. ~ Henry Rollins

Gentlemen, I give you the Whittle engine. ~ Frank Whittle

The http.HandleFunc() function takes two arguments: a path and a reference to a function to call when that path is requested. The function must have the signature func(http.ResponseWriter, *http.Request). ~ Mark Summerfield

My function here is to destroy all hypocrisy in you. ~ Rajneesh

Everybody thinks an automobile needs an engine. Well, an automobile doesn't necessarily need an engine. What we do is shift electric motors into the wheels of our automobiles and so we have a completely different kind of thing where we have four independent intelligent wheels rather than a traditional internal combustion engine and power train and so on. ~ William J. Mitchell

Small businesses are really the engine in the economy. ~ Karen Mills

Good design is not about form following function. It is function with cultural content. By adding "cultural content" to the concept of "form follows function," objects cease to be finite or predictable. Maybe the right way to interpret the dictum is to first acknowledge that the function needs to be clearly understood before the form is considered. ~ Carl Magnusson

This is the same problem that established companies experience. Their past successes were built on a finely tuned engine of growth. If that engine runs its course and growth slows or stops, there can be a crisis if the company does not have new startups incubating within its ranks that can provide new sources of growth. Companies of any size can suffer from this perpetual affliction. They need to manage a portfolio of activities, simultaneously tuning their engine of growth and developing new sources of growth for when that engine inevitably runs its course. ~ Eric Ries

Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one. ~ Charles De Gaulle

Different function is a function of different system ~ Sunday Adelaja

Nobody used an industrial vortex engine to run kitchen appliances. ~ Peter Watts

The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising. ~ Kit Williams

Man created Guilt. Guilt is the Perpetual Engine that Drives the World. ~ Vineet Raj Kapoor

I think of the universe as an engine. Perhaps we are a very small, yet very important part of this engine. What this engine drives - its purpose for expanding and contracting - that's what I'm curious about. It's unlikely that human beings are even capable of understanding purpose; like a tiny cell in our body, it has no idea why it functions, it simply does. ~ Aaron B. Powell

If you look at the offense like a fancy car, the offensive line is the engine. Even though we might have nice spinners and nice rims and tinted windows and some neat paint job, it doesn't mean crap without the engine. If the engine's not working, the car might look like a pretty nice car, but it's a piece of crap. ~ Mike Tice

An object never serves the same function as its image - or its name. ~ Rene Magritte

Weed's not as bad as everything else ... 'cause weed is a background substance. You know what I mean, you can smoke some herb and still function. You ain't crisp ... but you'll function. ~ Dave Chappelle

Find the fountain of fuel of life!
When you do, then right next to it ...
you'll see the best engine ever existed. ~ Toba Beta

Your soul has a single basic function-the act of valuing. ~ Ayn Rand

The chief function of stock-market forecasters is to make astrologers look respectable. ~ Jane Bryant Quinn

Physical growth is a function of time. No two-year-old child has ever been six feet tall. Intellectual growth is a function of learning. Spiritual growth is neither a function of time or learning, but it is a function of obedience. ~ John Bevere

In python the first argument of every function in a class always refers to its current instance.'self' is the new object that is created and whose function is called. The value of'self' attribute is not passed explicitly to a function. ~ Ryan Hutt

Like a lot of people, I've got a self-loathing streak that's alive and well. It acts as a de facto engine when I'm working, but it also has its extraordinary pitfalls, too. ~ Ryan Reynolds

If it is a woman's function to give, she must be replenished, too. ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The object of knowledge is what exists and its function to know about reality. ~ Plato

In order to run, an engine must have spark, fuel, and at least 60 psi of compression. One or more of these prerequisites is lacking if a cold engine refuses to start after three or four pulls on the starter cord. ~ Paul K. Dempsey

It is not music's function to express rational necessities. ~ Artur Schnabel

The whole function of education is to create Nazis. ~ Bernhard Rust

The function of pop music is to be consumed. ~ Pierre Boulez

I function better when my back is to the wall. ~ Bernard Hopkins

The destiny of [Google's search engine] is to become that Star Trek computer, and that's what we are building. ~ Amit Singhal

The quantum attention function can reduce a wave instantaneously to a tiny local region. The wave function evolves naturally, without an observer, from a mix of states into a single, well-defined state. To measure we introduced a matrix of extra non-linear mathematical components known as attention function, which rapidly promotes one state at the expense of others, in a stochastic way. ~ Amit Ray

Roark, floating like a piece of driftwood, held a power greater than that of the engine in the belly of the yacht. Wynand thought: Because that is the power from which the engine has come. ~ Ayn Rand

I have to go on writing because I wouldn't be able to go on without writing. It is the only function that works for me, and without that function, I would die. ~ Farley Mowat

For every function there is an order ~ Sunday Adelaja

The woman's function is to fascinate men. ~ George Balanchine

The function of criticism should not be confused with the function of reform. ~ Roger Zelazny

Wealth is an engine that can be used for power, if you are an engineer; but to be tied to the fly wheel of an engine is rather a misfortune. ~ Elbert Hubbard

Suppression of impulses that would put you in danger is obviously an important neurobiological function. ~ Patricia Churchland

Intelligence is a measure of how well you function within your level of awareness. ~ Scott Adams

The only purpose of advertising is to sell. It has no other function worth mentioning. ~ Raymond Rubicam

What we are left with is an overmanipulated economy that can't function normally. ~ Kenichi Ohmae

Until and unless we could disband these militias, this country won't be able to function properly. ~ Adnan Pachachi

One doesn't expect justice from life ... it's the function of human beings to put it there ... ~ Gwethalyn Graham

Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated. ~ Miguel De Unamuno

The function of a great library is to store obscure books. ~ Nicholson Baker

It's a mystery to me the way that contemporary art galleries function. ~ Steve Martin

The function of militarism is to kill. It cannot live except through murder. ~ Emma Goldman

Whores perform the same function as priests, but far more thoroughly. ~ Robert A. Heinlein

When Bauhaus designers adopted Sullivan's "form follows function," what they meant was,
form should follow function. And if function is hard enough, form is forced to follow it,
because there is no effort to spare for error.
Wild animals are beautiful because they have hard lives. ~ Paul Graham

The function of liberal Republicans is to shoot the wounded after battle. ~ Eugene McCarthy

Form and function are a unity, two sides of one coin. In order to enhance function, appropriate form must exist or be created. ~ Ida Pauline Rolf

Function and man appear synonymous because the function can only be pointed toward by being the function. There is no being except in a mode of being. [ ... ] Both scholar and Christian are functioning in identical ways, just under different metaphor, and both are evading the mechanics of being. ~ Joseph Chilton Pearce

For just as for a flute-player, a sculptor, or an artist, and, in general, for all things that have a function or activity, the good and the well is thought to reside in the function, so would it seem to be for man, if he has a function. ~ Aristotle.

Education has a larger function than the mere communication of knowledge. ~ George Russell

If we function according to our ability alone, we get the glory; if we function according to the power of the Spirit within us, God gets the glory. ~ Henry Blackaby

This one fact implies everything; and it is scarcely necessary to point out, for instance, that while the Difference Engine can merely tabulate, and is incapable of developing, the Analytical Engine can either tabulate or develope. ~ Ada Lovelace

The body is like an engine. When the engine is shut down, there is no way you can even think of taking care of yourself. When you have food, the mind can take care of all those things. ~ Benjamin Ajak

Early experience shapes the structure and function of the brain. This reveals the fundamental way in which gene expression is determined by experience. ~ Daniel J. Siegel

It is the University's function to turn out well-balanced persons with an understanding of themselves and of their place in life. ~ Vincent Massey

Unable to function as plants, we must serve as manure. ~ Edward Conze

My function as a writer is not story-telling but truth-telling: to make things plain. ~ Laura Riding

I'm like a three-and-a-half, four-hour-a-night sleeper. It's not enough to function. ~ Melissa McCarthy

True thusness is the substance of thought, and thought is the function of true thusness. There is no thought except that of true thusness. Thusness does not move, but its motion and function are inexhaustible. ~ Bruce Lee

Health is a function of participation. ~ Werner Erhard

Courage is a function of process. ~ Seth Klarman

If repping could be compared to a car: the office reps are the engine and the hotel reps are the drivers. If the engine doesn't work, the driver can't move forward; but if the driver refuses to drive, there's no point in having a perfectly functioning engine.
So, next time you take a holiday, enjoy the drive the rep takes you on - but remember to appreciate the office staff, who work to ensure that you don't come to an unexpected grinding halt. ~ Stephanie Wood

The function of government is to provide you with service; the function of the media is to supply the Vaseline. ~ L. Neil Smith

One function of art is to de-kitschify kitsch. ~ John Bayley

The regulation of medicine has been a State function. ~ Barney Frank

Imagination continually frustrates tradition; that is its function. ~ Jules Feiffer

The function of posterity is to look after itself. ~ Dylan Thomas