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• Software entities (classes, modules, functions, etc.) should be open for extension, but closed for modification.

  Bertrand Meyer

  Class, Etc, Should

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• Between two products equal in price, function and quality, the one with the most attractive exterior will win.

  Raymond Loewy

  Business, Winning, Two

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• Each family functions in their own way, by rules reinvented daily. The strangeness of each of us is somehow accommodated so that there can be such a thing as family and we can all live for some time at least in the same house. Normal is what you know.

  Niall Williams

  House, Way, Normal

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• Are our ways of teaching students to ask some questions always correlative with our ways of teaching them not to ask - indeed, to be unconscious of - others? Does the educational system exist in order to promulgate knowledge, or is its main function rather to universalize a society’s tacit agreement about what it has decided it does not and cannot know?

  Barbara Johnson

  Educational, Teaching, Agreement

  Barbara Johnson (1988). “A World of Difference”, p.76, JHU Press

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• Reality is a wave function traveling both backward and forward in time.

  John L. Casti

  Reality, Wave

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• Warranty – A notice telling the buyer when the product that was just purchased will no longer function.

  Richard Turner

  Buyers, Products, Warranty

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• We are … the un-proud non-possessors of objects whose chief substance is that of the transient symbol. Our Puritan fear of the love of things turns out to have been groundless after all, for we do not love things or even possess them: they pass through our lives as barium passes through the digestive tract, unassimilated, their function merely to flash signals along the way.

  Ralph Caplan

  Substance, Proud, Way

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• The brilliance here is appropriation: space, form and interface combine to create a Jetsons sound machine. A dream of music access that just hovers, its floating defines a space. The shape seems so obviously sci-fi, but fresh. The function could follow the form. The shape is beautiful and functional-which hits both of the pillars of American Needs right on the head.

  Tucker Viemeister

  Beautiful, Dream, Space

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• It’s been easier to convince people to hand over half their income, their children to war, and their freedoms in perpetuity - than to engage them in seriously considering how roads might function in the absence of taxation.

  Stefan Molyneux

  Children, War, Hands

  Twitter post from Feb 8, 2018

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• It is merely a metaphor to call competition competitive war, or simply, war. The function of battle is destruction; of competition, construction.

  Ludwig von Mises

  War, Competition, Battle

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.285, VM eBooks

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• We were resigned to suffering, thinking that we loved outside ourselves, and we perceive that our love is a function of our sorrow, that our love perhaps is our sorrow.

  Marcel Proust

  Love Is, Thinking, Suffering

  Marcel Proust (2016). “In Search of Lost Time: Or “Á la Recherche du temps perdu””, p.1981, Jester House Publishing

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• Release from fear, worry, and doubt leaves us free to function normally, healthfully, and confidently.

  Joel S. Goldsmith

  Worry, Doubt, Release

  Joel S. Goldsmith (2013). “The Infinite Way”, p.43, BookBaby

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• No two minds ever come together without a third invisible force, which may be likened to a 'third mind.' When a group of individual minds are coordinated and function in harmony, the increased energy created through that alliance becomes available to every individual in the group.

  Napoleon Hill

  Two, Mind, Together

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• Eternity isn't some later time. Eternity isn't a long time. Eternity has nothing to do with time. Eternity is that dimension of here and now which thinking and time cuts out. This is it. And if you don't get it here, you won't get it anywhere. And the experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life.

  Joseph Campbell

  Cutting, Thinking, Long

  "Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth (The Message of the Myth)". TV Mini-Series, June 22, 1988.

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• Dancing is an important function of music, but so is crying.

  Katie Melua

  Dancing, Important, Cry

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Ask Bill [Gates] why the string in [MS-DOS] function 9 is terminated by a dollar sign. Ask him, because he can't answer. Only I know that.

  Gary Kildall

  Dollars, Answers, Bills

  "Bill Gates: Of Mind and Money". "Seattle Post-Intelligencer" Newspaper, May 8, 1991.

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• Products were once designed for the functions they performed. But when all companies can make products that perform their functions equally well, the distinctive advantage goes to those who provide pleasure and enjoyment while maintaining the power. If functions are equated with cognition, pleasure is equated with emotion; today we want products that appeal to both cognition and emotion.

  Donald A. Norman

  Want, Today, Maintaining

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• It is not enough that we build products that function, that are understandable and usable, we also need to build products that bring joy and excitement, pleasure and fun, and, yes, beauty to people's lives.

  Donald A. Norman

  Motivational, Fun, People

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• Arguably the most important parallel between mass incarceration and Jim Crow is that both have served to define the meaning and significance of race in America. Indeed, a primary function of any racial caste system is to define the meaning of race in its time. Slavery defined what it meant to be black (a slave), and Jim Crow defined what it meant to be black (a second-class citizen). Today mass incarceration defines the meaning of blackness in America: black people, especially black men, are criminals. That is what it means to be black.

  Michelle Alexander

  Mean, Men, America

  "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness". Book by Michelle Alexander, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2010.

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• Generally, the craft of programming is the factoring of a set of requirements into a a set of functions and data structures.

  Douglas Crockford

  Data, Crafts, Requirements

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• I have been writing JavaScript for 8 years now, and I have never once found need to use an uber function. The super idea is fairly important in the classical pattern, but it appears to be unnecessary in the prototypal and functional patterns. I now see my early attempts to support the classical model in JavaScript as a mistake.

  Douglas Crockford

  Mistake, Writing, Ideas

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• When a pastor continually makes light of the character of our Lord by speaking in scatological tones about the Son of Man's bodily functions in incarnation or wearing T-Shirts that rather mock the King of Righteousness rather than glorify Him, then something is terribly awry.

  Steve Camp

  Kings, Character, Son

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• Unable to function as plants, we must serve as manure.

  Edward Conze

  Plant, Manure

  Edward Conze (1979). “Politics, people and places”

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• The writer's function is to prevent myths turning into allegories.

  Michel Tournier

  Myth, Allegory

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• It should be emphasized that the balagtasan also served a higher social and political function. More than mere entertainment, it enhanced the tradition role of the poet as purveyor of truth for the people.

  Virgilio S. Almario

  People, Political, Roles

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