Quater-imaginary Base/radix Point

Famous quotes containing the words base and/or point:

    “All that are printed and bound are not books; they do not necessarily belong to letters, but are oftener to be ranked with the other luxuries and appendages of civilized life. Base wares are palmed off under a thousand disguises.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “For pain is perhaps but a violent pleasure? Who could determine the point where pleasure becomes pain, where pain is still a pleasure? Is not the utmost brightness of the ideal world soothing to us, while the lightest shadows of the physical world annoy?”
    —HonorĂ© De Balzac (1799–1850)