Approximate

Famous quotes containing the word approximate:

“A worker may be the hammer’s master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be handled, while the user of the tool can only have an approximate idea.”
—Milan Kundera (b. 1929)

“All fashions are charming, or rather relatively charming, each one being a new striving, more or less well conceived, after beauty, an approximate statement of an ideal, the desire for which constantly teases the unsatisfied human mind.”
—Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)

“the dull thunder of approximate words.”
—Thom Gunn (b. 1929)