Negative Real Numbers

Famous quotes containing the words negative, real and/or numbers:

    The negative always wins at last, but I like it none the better for that.
    Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    Masturbation is not only an expression of self-regard: it is also the natural emotional outlet of those who ... have already accepted as inevitable the wide gulf between their real futures and the expectations of their fantasies.
    Quentin Crisp (b. 1908)

    I had but three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship; three for society. When visitors came in larger and unexpected numbers there was but the third chair for them all, but they generally economized the room by standing up.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)