Open Set Condition

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

    “Let us presently go sit in council,
    How covert matters may be best disclosed
    And open perils surest answered.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “Euclid alone
    Has looked on Beauty bare. Fortunate they
    Who, though once only and then but far away,
    Have heard her massive sandal set on stone.”
    —Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950)

    “The Germans are always too late. They are late, like music, which is always the last of the arts to express a world condition,—when that world condition is already in its final stages. They are abstract and mystical.”
    —Thomas Mann (1875–1955)