Open Set Condition

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

    “I not deny
    The jury, passing on the prisoner’s life,
    May in the sworn twelve have a thief or two
    Guiltier than him they try. What’s open made to justice,
    That justice seizes.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself.”
    —Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778)

    “Our condition as men is risky and ticklish enough. One can not be sure of himself and his fortune an hour, but he may be whisked off into some pitiable or ridiculous plight.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)