Arbitrary Precision Arithmetic

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

    “If you should rise from Nowhere up to Somewhere,
    From being No one up to being Someone,
    Be sure to keep repeating to yourself
    You owe it to an arbitrary god....”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “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)