Variable Compression

Famous quotes containing the words variable and/or compression:

“There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady’s head-dress.”
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)

“Do they [the publishers of Murphy] not understand that if the book is slightly obscure it is because it is a compression and that to compress it further can only make it more obscure?”
—Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)