Asymptotic Quotes

#1. The scientist knows very well that he is approaching ultimate truth only in an asymptotic curve and is barred from ever reaching it; but at the same time he is proudly aware of being indeed able to determine whether a statement is a nearer or a less near approach to the truth.

Konrad Lorenz

#2. Excellence is the asymptotic state that never quite reaches perfection.

Andy Hargreaves

#3. A potentially useful property of forecasts based on cointegration is that when extended some way ahead, the forecasts of the two series will form a constant ratio, as is expected by some asymptotic economic theory.

Clive Granger

#4. The ability to seize initiative is the most essential quality of any truly successful manager.

Sumantra Ghoshal

#5. When you're an older woman [in a movie], you are the brunt of the joke.

Jane Fonda

#6. (Never) judge a book by its cover or a woman by her kitchen.

Cindy Woodsmall

#7. We are stardust, we are golden and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.

Joni Mitchell

#8. The first dog I had was owned by an abusive couple. He was very skittish. He wouldn't let me hold him. It was explained to me that it was because of how he was treated.

Casey Affleck

#9. If gods are transcendent ideas, then the idea of a god IS a god.

Alan Moore

#10. The humble accept truth easier than the proud.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#11. All that I am
my mother made me.

John Quincy Adams

#12. Why does everything want to eat children?!"
Neferre smiled. "Because you taste like candy. Stinky socks would mask your delicious scent from the aziza. We must get you stinky socks. So they do not eat you."
"That's not much of a bedtime story! You really haven't done this before!

Ash Gray

#13. In my walks I would fain return to my senses.

Henry David Thoreau

#14. I bleed feminism. I get equal pay to my male costars on a big show; I have my own home. I'm as independent as you could possibly be.

Kaley Cuoco

#15. I respect John Kennedy for saying that he had a dream that we'd go to the moon before the end of the decade.

John Catsimatidis