One-way Compression Function/davies-meyer

Famous quotes containing the words compression and/or function:

    “Do they [the publishers of Murphy] not understand that if the book is slightly obscure it is because it is a compression and that to compress it further can only make it more obscure?”
    —Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)

    “To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.”
    —E.M. (Edward Morgan)