Relative Error Bound

Famous quotes containing the words relative, error and/or bound:

“It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Still we live meanly, like ants; though the fable tells us that we were long ago changed into men; like pygmies we fight with cranes; it is error upon error, and clout upon clout, and our best virtue has for its occasion a superfluous and evitable wretchedness. Our life is frittered away by detail.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Brave people add up to an aristocracy. The democracy of thou-shalt-not is bound to be a collection of weak men.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)