Extremely Large Numbers

Famous quotes containing the words extremely, large and/or numbers:

    To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers, but extremely fit for a nation that is governed by shopkeepers.
    Adam Smith (1723–1790)

    All those large dreams by which men long live well
    Are magic-lanterned on the smoke of hell;
    William Empson (1906–1984)

    And when all bodies meet
    In Lethe to be drowned,
    Then only numbers sweet
    With endless life are crowned.
    Robert Herrick (1591–1674)