Worst and Average Case

Famous quotes containing the words worst, average and/or case:

“The worst thing about this war is the chance it gives these dreadful little persons, the chance to make themselves important.”
—Arthur Wimperis (1874–1953)

“Whether or not his newspaper and a set of senses reduced to five are the main sources of the so-called “real life” of the so- called average man, one thing is fortunately certain: namely, that the average man himself is but a piece of fiction, a tissue of statistics.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

“In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.”
—Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)