Formal Systems

Famous quotes containing the words formal and/or systems:

    “On every formal visit a child ought to be of the party, by way of provision for discourse.”
    —Jane Austen (1775–1817)

    “The only people who treasure systems are those whom the whole truth evades, who want to catch it by the tail. A system is just like truth’s tail, but the truth is like a lizard. It will leave the tail in your hand and escape; it knows that it will soon grow another tail.”
    —Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818–1883)