Quotes about numbers
numbers people realizing
Few people realize the number of things that are possible. Richard P. Feynman
numbers people employment
When people are against profits they're against business; when they're against business, they're against employment; when they're against employment, it's not surprising that a large number of them are unemployed. Richard J. Needham
numbers atheism culture
I became a little alarmed at the number of my readers who took the meme more positively as a theory of human culture in its own right - either to criticize it (unfairly, given my original modest intention) or to carry it far beyond the limits of what I then thought justified. This was why I may have seemed to backtrack. Richard Dawkins
numbers mathematics
Them as counts counts moren them as dont count Russell Hoban
numbers today letters
Today's 'Sesame Street' will NOT be brought to you by the number 34 or the letter D. Russell Brand
numbers justice generations
We must not allow this generation to produce record numbers for the juvenile justice, runaway and homeless youth, or foster care systems. Ruben Hinojosa
numbers finite-number desire
The first rule of economics is that there is an infinite number of desires chasing a finite number of goods, services and resources. The first rule of politics is to ignore the first rule of economics. Thomas Sowell
numbers interest wells
Refusing to deal with numbers rarely serves the interests of the least well-off. Thomas Piketty
numbers add brilliant
[...] a number of flawed individuals can often add up to a brilliant social unit. Robert Musil
numbers people temptation
... there is a particular propensity in the world for people, wherever they appear in great numbers, to permit themselves collectively everything that would be forbidden them individually.
numbers squares theory
In network theory, the value of a system grows as approximately the square of the number of users of the system. Robert Metcalfe
numbers people looks
If you look at some of the people in the Hall of Fame, my numbers are compatible. Rickey Henderson
numbers race next
It's the next annihilation of vast numbers of species. It is happening now, and we, the human race, are its cause Richard Leakey
numbers people environmental
The greatest problem we face is the growing number of people living in poverty. The related sense of hopelessness has to be impacting on every part of environmental management.
numbers agents borders
Finally, we need more Border Patrol agents. Although Congress has already tripled the number of Border Patrol agents since the late 1980s, more are still needed. Ric Keller
numbers firsts enormous
I get and read an enormous number of first novels. Richard Russo
numbers google surprise
To me, the biggest surprise is that Google still functions despite the explosion in the number of sites. Robert Cailliau
numbers life-is made
A life is made up of a great number of small incidents, and a small number of great ones. Roald Dahl
numbers long lines
The bottom line is, what defines you isn't how many times you crash, but the number of times you get back on the bike. As long as it's one more. you're all good. Sarah Dessen
numbers magic events
There's no magic numbers in birthdays in my life, there are no milestones, there's no event. Every birthday has to be celebrated to its fullest, even if it's with one person or with 20. Sandra Bullock
numbers phones people
Suddenly, people had three phone numbers but never answered their phones. Roseanne Barr
numbers community survival
Under no circumstances will I ever purchase anything offered to me as the result of an unsolicited e-mail message. Nor will I forward chain letters, petitions, mass mailings, or virus warnings to large numbers of others. This is my contribution to the survival of the online community. Roger Ebert
numbers singers rays
There are singers that I have enjoyed, from Nina Simone and Ray Charles onward. But the music that made music the number one thing for me as a youth was jazz. Robert Wyatt
numbers pieces paper
I don't know how many thoughts we have a second, but it's quite an amazing number, and just to pin down the appropriate sequence of those, all you really need is a pencil and a piece of paper.
numbers land dinosaurs
If we measured success by longevity, then dinosaurs must rank as the number one success story in the history of land life. Robert T. Bakker
numbers development urban
The slurbs, urban sprawl, and the infinite number, of housing developments of the postwar boom have contributed to the architecture of entropy. Robert Smithson
numbers people want
I just don't feel comfortable anymore with the kind of attention that I'm getting. It's purely the numbers of people that want a bit of the Cure or want a bit of me. Robert Smith
numbers safety giving
Measuring Safety Performance by the number of injuries you have is like measuring parenting by the number of smacks you give Robert Long
numbers people wake-up
Large numbers of young people are waking up. And they are saying, "We are not here just to work for multinational corporations and make money for them. We are here to live. We have to find the meaning of life." Satish Kumar
numbers return something-better
Rule number something or other -- never tell anybody anything unless you're going to get something better in return. Sara Paretsky
numbers priorities
Education is the number one priority. Vincent Kartheiser
numbers space together
Inevitably our opinions cover a bigger space, a longer reach of time, a greater number of things, than we can directly observe. They have, therefore, to be pieced together out of what others have reported and what we can imagine. Walter Lippmann
numbers moral-corruption vices
The accumulation of numbers always augments in some measure moral corruptions, and the consequences to health of the various vices incident thereto, are well known.