Famous quotes containing the words compression, function and/or construction:
“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)
“My function in life is not to be a politician in Parliament: it is to get something done.”
—Bernadette Devlin (b. 1947)
“The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.”
—Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)
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