Worst and Average Case

Famous quotes containing the words worst, average and/or case:

“Australia is a huge rest home, where no unwelcome news is ever wafted on to the pages of the worst newspapers in the world.”
—Germaine Greer (b. 1939)

“The average parent may, for example, plant an artist or fertilize a ballet dancer and end up with a certified public accountant. We cannot train children along chicken wire to make them grow in the right direction. Tying them to stakes is frowned upon, even in Massachusetts.”
—Ellen Goodman (b. 1941)

“In the case of scandal, as in that of robbery, the receiver is always thought as bad as the thief.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)