Local Hidden Variable

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

    While it may not heighten our sympathy, wit widens our horizons by its flashes, revealing remote hidden affiliations and drawing laughter from far afield; humor, in contrast, strikes up fellow feeling, and though it does not leap so much across time and space, enriches our insight into the universal in familiar things, lending it a local habitation and a name.
    —Marie Collins Swabey. Comic Laughter, ch. 5, Yale University Press (1961)

    Were I a king, I could command content;
    Were I obscure, hidden should be my cares;
    Edward De Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (1550–1604)

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