Floating Point Values

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

    “They [the children] live in a world of delightful imagination; they pursue persons and objects that never existed; they make an Argosy laden with gold out of a floating butterfly,—and these stupid [grown-up people] try to translate these things into uninteresting facts.”
    —Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)

    “He left the name, at which the world grew pale,
    To point a moral, or adorn a tale.”
    —Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

    “Culture is the name for what people are interested in, their thoughts, their models, the books they read and the speeches they hear, their table-talk, gossip, controversies, historical sense and scientific training, the values they appreciate, the quality of life they admire. All communities have a culture. It is the climate of their civilization.”
    —Walter Lippmann (1889–1974)