Impulse Response Function

Famous quotes containing the words impulse, response and/or function:

    “What is desire?—
    The impulse to make someone else complete?
    That woman would set sodden straw on fire.”
    —Theodore Roethke (1908–1963)

    “Love is the victim’s response to the rapist.”
    —Ti-Grace Atkinson (b. 1938?)

    “Philosophical questions are not by their nature insoluble. They are, indeed, radically different from scientific questions, because they concern the implications and other interrelations of ideas, not the order of physical events; their answers are interpretations instead of factual reports, and their function is to increase not our knowledge of nature, but our understanding of what we know.”
    —Susanne K. Langer (1895–1985)