Space Direct Sum

Famous quotes containing the words space, direct and/or sum:

    “Not so many years ago there there was no simpler or more intelligible notion than that of going on a journey. Travel—movement through space—provided the universal metaphor for change.... One of the subtle confusions—perhaps one of the secret terrors—of modern life is that we have lost this refuge. No longer do we move through space as we once did.”
    —Daniel J. Boorstin (b. 1914)

    “England and France, Spain and Portugal, Gold Coast and Slave Coast, all front on this private sea; but no bark from them has ventured out of sight of land, though it is without doubt the direct way to India.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “the possibility of rule as the sum of rulelessness:”
    —Archie Randolph Ammons (b. 1926)