Negative Solution

Famous quotes containing the words negative and/or solution:

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

“To the questions of the officiously meddling police Falter replied absently and tersely; but, when he finally grew tired of this pestering, he pointed out that, having accidentally solved “the riddle of the universe,” he had yielded to artful exhortation and shared that solution with his inquisitive interlocutor, whereupon the latter had died of astonishment.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)