Transfer Function Fall

Famous quotes containing the words transfer, function and/or fall:

“No sociologist ... should think himself too good, even in his old age, to make tens of thousands of quite trivial computations in his head and perhaps for months at a time. One cannot with impunity try to transfer this task entirely to mechanical assistants if one wishes to figure something, even though the final result is often small indeed.”
—Max Weber (1864–1920)

“The more books we read, the clearer it becomes that the true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no other task is of any consequence.”
—Cyril Connolly (1903–1974)

“Oh! lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud!
I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)