Quotes about equivalence (6 Quotes)

The difficulty we had was establishing equivalence between the men's and women's game.

I remember one occasion when I tried to add a little seasoning to a review, but I wasn't allowed to. The paper was by Dorothy Maharam, and it was a perfectly sound contribution to abstract measure theory. The domains of the underlying measures were not sets but elements of more general Boolean algebras, and their range consisted not of positive numbers but of certain abstract equivalence classes. My proposed first sentence was 'The author discusses valueless measures in pointless spaces.'

One might have thought the world would stop ascribing moral equivalence between acts of terrorism and acts of punishing terrorism. It has not happened that way.

Because such equivalence sets can contain other patterns in turn containing further patterns, and so on the resulting body of knowledge grows recursively, as a sort of forest of branching trees of possibilities,

The issue in Web accessibility is the fact that blind and visually-impaired people need the single biggest boost to achieve equivalence, since the real-world Web is a visual medium.

In terms of people taking advantage of the Internet, I think we can talk about this generation of browser essentially as about the equivalence of DOS.