Impulse Response Function

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

    “Theology, I am persuaded, derives its initial impulse from a religious wavering; for there is quite as much, or more, that is mysterious and calculated to awaken scientific curiosity in the intercourse with God, and it [is] a problem quite analogous to that of theology.”
    —Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914)

    “It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has accumulated in me like the waters of a reservoir.”
    —Henry Miller (1891–1980)

    “Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality.”
    —Arnold Bennett (1867–1931)