Quotes About Counting

Steele: Yeah. And not knowing the future. If I could change one thing-this is going to sound stupid-but if I could go back in time and change one thing, I might try to interest some early preliterate people in not using their thumbs when they count. It could have been the standard, and it would have made a whole lot of things easier in the modern era. On the other hand, we have learned a lot from the struggle with the incompatibility of base-ten with powers of two.

You can count in binary on your fingers up to 1023.

If you think dogs can't count, try putting three dog biscuits in your pocket and then giving Fido only two of them.

We believe that the vote would have been close. We regret that in the face of an explicit threat to veto by a permanent member, the vote-counting became a secondary consideration.

Every vote counts and every vote must be counted.

One of the enduring myths of campaign analysis is that you can actually count the number of 'undecided' voters by asking voters if they are undecided or not. Sometimes, significant numbers of voters actually change their minds.

The New York Herald said there could be plans "to take the Capitol by violence." The counting of the Electoral College votes, scheduled for Wednesday, February 13, might be stopped.

New York Herald said there could be plans "to take the Capitol by violence." The counting of the Electoral College votes, scheduled for Wednesday, February 13, might be stopped.

Counting is a symptom, but counting symptoms is also a symptom, a tick plus ultra . I've got meta-Tourette's. Thinking about ticcing, my mind racing, thoughts reaching to touch every possible symptom. Touching touching. Counting counting. Thinking thinking. Mentioning mentioning Tourette's. It's sort of like talking about telephones over the telephone, or mailing letters describing the location of various mailboxes. Or like a tugboater whose favorite anecdote concerns actual tugboats.

Googol?'' ''That's a one with one hundred zeroes after it.

Fecho os olhos e vejo um bando de pássaros. A visão dura um segundo ou talvez menos; não sei quantos pássaros vi. Era definido ou indefinido o seu número? [...] Se Deus existe, o número é definido, porque Deus sabe quantos pássaros vi. Se Deus não existe, o número é indefinido, pois ninguém conhecerá ao certo a sua conta.

Strapped, noosed, nighing his hour,He stood and counted them and cursed his luck;And then the clock collected in the towerIts strength, and struck.

I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot: they amount to fourteen.

Something on the order of 107 billion modern humans have existed, though this number depends on when exactly you start counting.

If middle-class society is decaying, if we have got into a blind alley from which we cannot emerge without attacking past institutions with torch and hatchet, it is precisely because we have given too much to counting. It is because we have let ourselves be influenced into giving only to receive. It is because we have aimed at turning society into a commercial company based on debit and credit.

Let's not be overconfident, we still have to count the votes.

The Florida Supreme Court wanted all the legal votes to be counted. The United States Supreme Court, on the other hand, did not want all the votes to be counted.

I have nothing to do with counting the votes.

Even if you only counted the votes that actually made it through the hoops in order to be cast, the president was really Al Gore.

The votes of 60,000 Floridians were not counted. The Court threw out all 60,00 votes. And that's what the newspapers around the country are counting now.

If you double count some votes, that makes other votes disenfranchised.

If we really mean that people's votes are to be counted, the timelines ought to exist around what it takes to count every vote.

Democracy only has substance if there's the rule of law. That is, if people believe that the votes are going to be counted, and they are counted. If they believe that there's a judiciary out there that will make sense of things if there's some challenge. If there isn't rule of law, people will be afraid to vote the way they want to vote.

The left patronizes minorities, pretends they don't know how to vote correctly, pretends they don't have IDs, when in fact they want their votes to count, and participate in greater numbers when you assure them their votes will count.