Self-avoiding Walks in Popular Culture
- The computer video game Snake is an example of a self-avoiding walk.
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Famous quotes containing the words walks, popular and/or culture:
“Falstaff sweats to death,
And lards the lean earth as he walks along.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“The very nursery tales of this generation were the nursery tales of primeval races. They migrate from east to west, and again from west to east; now expanded into the “tale divine” of bards, now shrunk into a popular rhyme.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The hard truth is that what may be acceptable in elite culture may not be acceptable in mass culture, that tastes which pose only innocent ethical issues as the property of a minority become corrupting when they become more established. Taste is context, and the context has changed.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)