Arbitrary Precision Arithmetic

Famous quotes containing the words arbitrary, precision and/or arithmetic:

    “Pity on the person who has become accustomed to seeing in necessity something arbitrary, who ascribes to the arbitrary some sort of reason, and even claims that following that sort of reason has religious value.”
    —Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)

    “Women on trains
    have a life
    that is exactly livable
    the precision of days flashing past”
    —Audre Lorde (1934–1992)

    “‘Tis no extravagant arithmetic to say, that for every ten jokes,—thou hast got an hundred enemies; and till thou hast gone on, and raised a swarm of wasps about thine ears, and art half stung to death by them, thou wilt never be convinced it is so.”
    —Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)