Perfect Isothermal Compression

Famous quotes containing the words perfect and/or compression:

    “There stood the purple spires with no breath of air
    Nor headlong bee
    To disturb their perfect poise the livelong day
    ‘Neath the alder tree.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “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)