Spin Glass/edwards%e2%80%93anderson Model

Famous quotes containing the words spin, glass and/or model:

    “In tragic life, God wot,
    No villain need be! Passions spin the plot:
    We are betrayed by what is false within.”
    —George Meredith (1828–1909)

    “People who, out of an inborn moderation, leave every glass standing only half-emptied refuse to admit that everything in the world has its sediments and dregs.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    “It has to be acknowledged that in capitalist society, with its herds of hippies, originality has become a sort of fringe benefit, a mere convention, accepted obsolescence, the Beatnik model being turned in for the Hippie model, as though strangely obedient to capitalist laws of marketing.”
    —Mary McCarthy (1912–1989)