Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steven Weber

The flaw in, say, austerity, is that its success is predicated on the relative exactitude of math rather than the shifting, liquid imperfection of peoples lives.

Richard Hamming

The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.

T. Harv Eker

"It's better to give than to receive." Let me put this as elegantly as possible: "What a crock!" That statement is total hogwash, and in case you haven't noticed, it's usually propagated by people and groups who want you to give and them to receive. The whole idea is ludicrous. What's better, hot or cold, big or small, left or right, in or out? Giving and receiving are two sides of the same coin. Whoever decided that it is better to give than to receive was simply bad at math. For every giver their must be a receiver, and for every receiver there must be a giver.

Scott Adams

The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers.

Kelly Ripa

If you're a waiter and you're waiting on me, you might get five percent, you might get seventy percent. It depends on how bad my math skills are that day.

You can teach someone to use Excel, but if they don't know a thing about math in the first place, then it's not a very useful tool,

Russell Hoban

More and more I'm aware that the permutations are not unlimited.

Paolo Bacigalupi

At first, when California started winning its water lawsuits and shutting off cities, the displaced people just followed the water-right to California. It took a little while before the bureaucrats realized what was going on, but finally someone with a sharp pencil did the math and realized that taking in people along with their water didn't solve a water shortage.

Paul McCartney

Bach was so mathematical and I liked this idea that you could have one instrument going, 'One, two, three, four', and then you have another instrument going, [double time] 'One, two, three four', and another instrument going, [doubled again] 'One, two, three, four, one, two, three, four', so you could add twos and fours and eighths, and that happens a lot in Bach.

Pierre de Fermat

I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this, which however the margin is not large enough to contain.

Peter Lynch

All the math you need in the stock market you get in the fourth grade.

Peter Lynch

Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth-grade math, you can do it.

Peter Hilton

Mathematics is for lazy people.

Rene Descartes

I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.

Rene Descartes

Give me extension and motion and I will construct the universe.

Rene Descartes

Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare.

Rene Descartes

With me, everything turns into mathematics.

Rene Descartes

The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.

Thomas Huxley

Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds your stuff to any degree of fineness.

Thomas F. Wilson

And by the same token, I appreciate math, because I can't do math. If I have to read a map or figure out the tip on a restaurant bill, I might start to tear up a little bit.

Robert McKee

In life two negatives don't make a positive. Double negatives turn positive only in math and formal logic. In life things just get worse and worse and worse.

Walt Whitman

Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I can bear it.

Robert Toth

I failed math; Einstein passed it. But he couldn’t paint and sculpt like me. So we all have these specialties, these strengths.

Robert Towne

What makes screenplays difficult are the things that require the most discipline and care and are just not seen by most people. I'm talking about movement - screenwriting is related to math and music, and if you zig here, you know you have to zag there. It's like the descriptions for a piece of music - you go fast or slow or with feeling. It's the same.

Robert Anton Wilson

I was born into a working class Irish Catholic family at the brutal bottom of the Great Depression. I suppose this early imprinting and conditioning made me a life-long radical. My education was mostly scientific, majoring in electrical engineering and applied math. Those imprints made me a life-long rationalist. I have become increasingly skeptical about, or detached from, the assumption that radicalism and rationalism are the only correct perspectives with which to view life, but they remain my favorite perspectives.

Rob Marshall

I could never have been an accountant. I got a D in math.

Richard Preston

If equations are trains threading the landscape of numbers, then no train stops at pi.

Sam Trammell

I was good at math, math was my thing - but I was not nearly good enough to be an astrophysicist. I was way outta my league. I realized this very quickly.

Robertson Davies

Although I am almost illiterate mathematically, I grasped very early in life that any one who can count to ten can count upward indefinitely if he is fool enough to do so.

Virgil

Uneven numbers are the gods' delight.

Warren Buffett

I'm always interested in understanding the math of things and understanding as much as I can about all aspects of business. And what I learn today may be useful to me two years from now. That'sreally the wonderful thing about investments is your knowledge is cumulative.

Sally Ride

I liked math - that was my favorite subject - and I was very interested in astronomy and in physical science.

Rudolph A. Marcus

During my McGill years, I took a number of math courses, more than other students in chemistry.