Floating Point Numbers

Famous quotes containing the words floating, point and/or numbers:

    “Novels as dull as dishwater, with the grease of random sentiments floating on top.”
    —Italo Calvino (1923–1985)

    “The point is that nationalism, even in its latest madhouse frenzies under Mussolini and Hitler, is still, like advertising, an arm of big business. Nations as we know them today, were the invention of business and it is natural that business should still consider itself slightly above patriotism and that the strongest international should still be the international of profits.”
    —John Dos Passos (1896–1970)

    “And when all bodies meet
    In Lethe to be drowned,
    Then only numbers sweet
    With endless life are crowned.”
    —Robert Herrick (1591–1674)