Decay Mode

Famous quotes containing the words decay and/or mode:

    It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public; and I am not sure that I am not still regarded as a suspicious character in some quarters.
    George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

    Almost any mode of observation will be successful at last, for what is most wanted is method.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)