Circle Packing Defined

Famous quotes containing the words circle, packing and/or defined:

    “Wise child, didst hastily return
    And mad’st thy mother’s womb thine urn.
    How summed a circle didst thou leave mankind
    Of deepest lore, could we the center find!”
    —Ben Jonson (1572–1637)

    “He had a wonderful talent for packing thought close, and rendering it portable.”
    —Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)

    “There is no such thing as a language, not if a language is anything like what many philosophers and linguists have supposed. There is therefore no such thing to be learned, mastered, or born with. We must give up the idea of a clearly defined shared structure which language-users acquire and then apply to cases.”
    —Donald Davidson (b. 1917)