Objective Function

Famous quotes containing the words objective and/or function:

    “So much for Mrs. Hollis’ nine months of pain and 20 years of hope.”
    —Alvah Bessie, Ranald MacDougall, and Lester Cole. Raoul Walsh. Nameless GI, Objective Burma, cutting dog tags off a dead GI (1945)

    “We are thus able to distinguish thinking as the function which is to a large extent linguistic.”
    —Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897–1934)