Numbering System

Famous quotes containing the words numbering and/or system:

“The task he undertakes
Is numbering sands and drinking oceans dry.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“When the finishing stroke was put to his work, it suddenly expanded before the eyes of the astonished artist into the fairest of all the creations of Brahma. He had made a new system in making a staff, a world with full and fair proportions; in which, though the old cities and dynasties had passed away, fairer and more glorious ones had taken their places.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)