Today education is perhaps the most important function of state and local governments.

What makes me angry? The education of children. How in God's name can you expect to have a functioning society the way we teach our kids?

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.

I think a lot of times people design restaurants with flash in mind. I think you should design restaurants with function in mind. Make sure it's functional and works with what you're trying to accomplish. Design can come later.

If consciousness can function independently of the body during one's lifetime it could be able to do the same after death.

Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body.

My dad would give me $10 which is a lot of money when you're 9 to sing at church on tables at restaurants at family functions just about anywhere.

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.

The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor.