Nearest Neighbor Methods

Famous quotes containing the words nearest, neighbor and/or methods:

“Scratching is one of nature’s sweetest gratifications, and the one nearest at hand.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)

“Everything depends on the value we give to things. We are the ones who make morality and virtue. The cannibal who eats his neighbor is as innocent as the child who sucks his barley-sugar.”
—Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880)

“The philosopher is in advance of his age even in the outward form of his life. He is not fed, sheltered, clothed, warmed, like his contemporaries. How can a man be a philosopher and not maintain his vital heat by better methods than other men?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)