Floating Point Operations

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

    “Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy:Min the force of imagination that pierces or exalts the solid fact, instead of floating among cloud-pictures.”
    —George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

    “It is sometimes a point of as much cleverness to know to make good use of advice from others as to be able give good advice to oneself.”
    —François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

    “Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.”
    —Horace Walpole (1717–1797)