Lighter computers and lighter sensors would let you have more function in a given weight, which is very important if you are launching things into space, and you have to pay by the pound to put things there.
We are very proud of our design for the Transbay Transit Center. This will be a beautiful, functional and sustainable building for San Francisco.
I'm walking this walk, and my life has nothing to do with my perception of the world. It's all God! How do I function within His plan?
God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism.
In the past, a great library was the result of librarians functioning as guardians of culture, tending and caring, selecting and recommending works that maintained and nurtured a cultural heritage.
There's no shortage of orphans in 19th-century literature, but it's hard to find a single happy, communicative, functional parental relationship in the whole of 'Great Expectations,' even among the minor characters.
Words are important to me, but a song can work and function and be a good song with words that are fairly standard. But really great lyrics can't rescue a dog of a song.
The media is absolutely essential to the functioning of a democracy. It's not our job to cozy up to power. We're supposed to be the check and balance on government.
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
One can decide that the principal role of knowledge is as an indispensable element in the functioning of society, and act in accordance with that decision, only if one has already decided that society is a giant machine.
The function of the politician, therefore, is one of continuous watchfulness and activity, and he must have intimate knowledge of details if he would work out grand results.
After you have wept and grieved for your physical losses, cherish the functions and the life you have left.
My music started as a way to break through weaknesses - like anxiety, which was completely taking over my whole life, where I could barely function.
An artist is someone who can hold two opposing viewpoints and still remain fully functional.
The principal task of a conductor is not to put himself in evidence but to disappear behind his functions as much as possible. We are pilots, not servants.
No one, however powerful and successful, can function as an adult if his parents are not satisfied with him.
You can blow on the dice all you want, but whether they come up 'seven' is still a function of random luck.
I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic.
This means that the only function of nuclear weapons, while they exist, is to deter a nuclear attack.
I tend to be a bit of a workaholic, but I also can't function without some sort of domesticity as well.
The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if it were.
