Number Field Sieve

Famous quotes containing the words number, field and/or sieve:

“I am walking over hot coals suspended over a deep pit at the bottom of which are a large number of vipers baring their fangs.”
—John Major (b. 1943)

“And through the field the road runs by
To many-towered Camelot;”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)

“It’s like pushing marbles through a sieve. It means the sieve will never be the same again.”
—Before the 1972 Democratic Convention in Miami. As quoted in Crazy Salad, ch. 6, by Nora Ephron (1972)