Negative Numbers

Famous quotes containing the words negative and/or numbers:

“The negative always wins at last, but I like it none the better for that.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“I had but three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship; three for society. When visitors came in larger and unexpected numbers there was but the third chair for them all, but they generally economized the room by standing up.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)