Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Muir

In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others

John Wilbanks

Knowledge is a public good and increases in value as the number of people possessing it increases.

John von Neumann

I am a little troubled about the tea service in the electronic computer building. Apparently the members of your staff consume several times as much supplies as the same number of people do in Fuld Hall and they have been especially unfair in the matter of sugar.... I should like to raise the question whether it would not be better for the computer people to come up to Fuld Hall at the end of the day at 5 o'clock and have their tea here under proper supervision.

John von Neumann

Any one who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. For, as has been pointed out several times, there is no such thing as a random number– there are only methods to produce random numbers, and a strict arithmetic procedure of course is not such a method.

John Philip Sousa

America can well expect to develop a goodly amount of composers for she has a goodly number of people.

Mark Pincus

You're not smarter than your competitor. Just copy what they do and do it until you get their numbers.

Scott Caan

I'm kind of like the goofy number-seven guy in a lot of movies.

Tobias Smollett

Number three is always fortunate.

Sloane Crosley

I prefer to record all traumas and save them for later, playing them over and over so they can haunt me for a disproportionate number of weeks to come. It's very healthy.

Socrates

Is there anyone to whom you entrust a greater number of serious matters than your wife? And is there anyone with whom you have fewer conversations?

The number of those 19 to 25 with private insurance increased from 51 to 55.8 percent, and the percentage of uninsured fell from 33.9 percent in 2010 to 28.8 percent during the first half of 2011.

Michael Shermer

For solving a surprisingly large and varied number of problems, crowds are smarter than individuals.

Michael Shermer

In comparison, Google is brilliant because it uses an algorithm that ranks Web pages by the number of links to them, with those links themselves valued by the number of links to their page of origin.

Theodor Adorno

Bourgeois society is ruled by equivalence. It makes the dissimilar comparable by reducing it to abstract quantities. To the enlightenment, that which does not reduce to numbers, and ultimately to the one, becomes illusion.

Terry McAuliffe

Anyone in politics would like to have great economic numbers.

Terry Pratchett

I'm trying to remember how you tell the time by looking at the sun." -"I should leave it for a while, it's too bright to see the numbers at the moment.

Terry Pratchett

The IQ of a mob is the IQ of its dumbest member divided by the number of mobsters.

Michael Flatley

Life isn't about the number of times you're knocked down, it's about the number of times you get back up.

Michael Behe

As the number of unexplained, irreducibly complex biological systems increases, our confidence that Darwin's criterion of failure has been met skyrockets toward the maximum that science allows.

Michael Behe

As can be seen even by this limited number of examples proteins carry out amazingly diverse functions.

Michael Bloomberg

If you can't prove it's not true then a certain number of people will glom on and say it is true.

Melinda Gates

After a number of years dating, we decided we were good partners.

Michele Bachmann

This is President Obama’s number one political agenda item because he knows we will never again have a Republican president, ever, if amnesty goes into effect.

Michael Palin

I've been lucky to have made a number of travel programmes with the BBC, the object being to see places off the beaten track. As a result, I've often had a guide who's been able to show me things that you wouldn't see with a tour group.

Ray Bradbury

I'm trying to teach people of all ages to, number one: how to criticize, how to offer creative analysis on top of that, how to try to build things in a new direction and how to compliment people when the thing gets done.

Eric Hoffer

The weakness of a soul is proportionate to the number of truths that must be kept from it.

Emmanuelle Seigner

Age is a number on a piece of paper.

Emmeline Pankhurst

It is perfectly evident to any logical mind that when you have got the vote, by the proper use of the vote in sufficient numbers, by combination, you can get out of any legislature whatever you want, or, if you cannot get it, you can send them about their business and choose other people who will be more attentive to your demands.

James Chanos

The Macau casinos have a wonderful business, it's taking in money from Chinese businessmen elsewhere who send it through junky companies to casinos to gamble. The growth continues and they have basically western managers and western accounting, so we trust the numbers a little bit more.

Jake Halpern

Imagine having "no chain of titles for cars, no VIN numbers, and no DMV. There'd be total chaos! But that's basically the system for debt.

Jakaya Kikwete

Justice has to be done, justice must be seen to be done, what the AU is simply saying is that what is critical, what is the priority, is peace. That is priority number one now.

Henry Rollins

I live my life by the numbers. Not only am I an American, I am an Americanist.

Henry Rollins

I have had a number of less-than-enviable moments in my life when dealing with other people. I won't attempt to blunt that by saying I am not the only one.