Adam Curtis
Adam Curtis

One of the main functions of politicians - and journalists - is to simplify the world for us.

Ai Weiwei
Ai Weiwei

To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.

Al-Waleed bin Talal
Al-Waleed bin Talal

Clearly, as a CEO, you have other functions that are managed by other people.

Alan Arkin
Alan Arkin

I had to jump around in the arts for a while just to survive. I earned a little money here and there, playing the guitar at union meetings, functions. I sold some science-fiction stories. I knew there was absolutely no question of me not being connected with the arts, but I couldn't find any acting jobs.

Alan Cooper
Alan Cooper

Reducing a product's definition to a list of features and functions ignores the real opportunity - orchestrating technological capability to serve human needs and goals.

Alan Greenspan
Alan Greenspan

Corruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere. It is regrettably the way human nature functions, whether we like it or not. What successful economies do is keep it to a minimum. No one has ever eliminated any of that stuff.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

A living cell requires energy not only for all its functions, but also for the maintenance of its structure.

Alexis de Tocqueville
Alexis de Tocqueville

The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.

Alphonso Jackson
Alphonso Jackson

So, I have the responsibility of making sure that HUD functions and runs well.

Alvar Aalto
Alvar Aalto

We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city.