American Numbering Plan

Famous quotes containing the words american, numbering and/or plan:

“Gowns, and pecuniary foundations, though of towns of gold, can never countervail the least sentence or syllable of wit. Forget this, and our American colleges will recede in their public importance, whilst they grow richer every year.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“The task he undertakes
Is numbering sands and drinking oceans dry.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“some little plan or chart,
Some fragment from his dream of human life,
Shaped by himself with newly-learned art;”
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850)