Floating Point Operations

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

    “I myself have seen the floating ships
    And nothing will ever be the same
    The shouts,
    The harrowing voices within the house.
    I stand apart with an army:
    My mind is graven with ships.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    “If you give me a short shot I will attack you. I’m not a baseliner who rallies. I try to get the point over with.”
    —Venus Williams (b. 1980)

    “There is a patent office at the seat of government of the universe, whose managers are as much interested in the dispersion of seeds as anybody at Washington can be, and their operations are infinitely more extensive and regular.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)