Floating Point Numbers

Famous quotes containing the words floating, point and/or numbers:

    “Writing prejudicial, off-putting reviews is a precise exercise in applied black magic. The reviewer can draw free- floating disagreeable associations to a book by implying that the book is completely unimportant without saying exactly why, and carefully avoiding any clear images that could capture the reader’s full attention.”
    —William Burroughs (b. 1914)

    “The ellipse is as aimless as that,
    Stretching invisibly into the future so as to reappear
    In our present. Its flexing is its account,
    Return to the point of no return.”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    “One murder makes a villain, millions a hero. Numbers sanctify, my good fellow.”
    —Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977)