Local Hidden Variable

Famous quotes containing the words local, hidden and/or variable:

    “The local is a shabby thing. There’s nothing worse than bringing us back down to our own little corner, our own territory, the radiant promiscuity of the face to face. A culture which has taken the risk of the universal, must perish by the universal.”
    —Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)

    “And the unfailing sense of being young
    Spread out like a spring-woken tree, wherein
    That hidden freshness sung,
    That certainty of time laid up in store....”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    “There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady’s head-dress.”
    —Joseph Addison (1672–1719)