Excess Demand Function

Famous quotes containing the words excess, demand and/or function:

    “Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds—a sacrifice to the vanity of ageing adolescents.... In 1953, excess is always a comfort, and sometimes a career.”
    —Albert Camus (1913–1960)

    “You are right to demand that an artist engage his work consciously, but you confuse two different things: solving the problem and correctly posing the question.”
    —Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)

    “Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.”
    —Ezra Pound (1885–1972)