Fixed Point Combinators

Famous quotes containing the words fixed and/or point:

    “These earthly godfathers of Heaven’s lights,
    That give a name to every fixed star,
    Have no more profit of their shining nights
    Than those that walk and wot not what they are.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is, on the contrary, the point of departure for the metaphysical journey.”
    —Joseph Brodsky (b. 1940)