Open Set Condition

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

    “Betray, kind husband, Thy spouse to our sights,
    And let mine amorous soul court Thy mild Dove,
    Who is most true and pleasing to Thee then
    When she is embraced and open to most men.”
    —John Donne (1572–1631)

    “I think it better that in times like these
    A poet’s mouth be silent, for in truth
    We have no gift to set a statesman right.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “The condition that gives birth to a rule is not the same as the condition to which the rule gives birth.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)