Open Set Condition

Famous quotes containing the words open, set and/or condition:

    The young women, what can they not learn, what can they not achieve, with Columbia University annex thrown open to them? In this great outlook for women’s broader intellectual development I see the great sunburst of the future.
    M. E. W. Sherwood (1826–1903)

    I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you’re an idiot.
    Steve Martin (b. 1945)

    Irishness is not primarily a question of birth or blood or language; it is the condition of being involved in the Irish situation, and usually of being mauled by it.
    Conor Cruise O’Brien (b. 1917)