Quotes About Counting

Sailed this day nineteen leagues, and determined to count less than the true number, that the crew might not be dismayed if the voyage should prove long.

I think the elections have gone well, although there is so much insecurity in Iraq. So far during the counting of ballots, there has not been a significant complaint. We have to wait to see what the outcome of the counting is.

We thought we'd name the magazine for the number of bridges within Edmonton's city limits. We thought this number was 18. Much later, we learned that the number is actually 21. But we didn't like the sound of that so much.

Think of this for a moment. In eighteen milliliters of water (about two swallows full), there are 6 x 1023 molecules of H2O. How much is 6 x 1023? A good computer can carry out ten million counts per second. It would take that computer two billion years to count to 6 x 1023. Look

Well, when I think of thirty-five years of your life . . . Mrs. Goodwater pursed her lips and blinked her eyes, counting. That's about twelve thousand seven hundred and seventy-five days, or counting three of them per day, twelve thousand-odd commotions, twelve thousand much-ados and twelve thousand calamaties. It's a full rich life you lead, Elmira Brown. Shake hands! Get away! Elmira fended her off.

outside, the clear-cut strokes of the town clock counting

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Letter to Christian Goldbach, April 17, 1712: "Music is the occulted arithmetic exercise of a soul that does not know it is counting.

The delegates from the southern states insisted that slaves were property, like horses and sheep, and therefore should not be counted as "Inhabitants." Franklin countered this claim with an edgy joke, observing that slaves, the last time he looked, did not behave like sheep: "Sheep will never make any insurrections.

Contate le vostre pagine, ragazzi, contate... anche i romanzieri lo fanno. [...] Contate le pagine... Si comincia meravigliandosi del numero di pagine lette, e poi si arriva a spaventarsi del poco che rimane da leggere. Solo 50 pagine! Vedrete... Non c'è nulla di più dolce di questa tristezza: Guerra e pace, due grossi tomi... e solo 50 pagine da leggere. Uno rallenta, rallenta, ma niente da fare... Natasha finisce per sposare Pierre Bezuchov, ed è la fine.

Gottfried Leibniz wrote that music's pleasure consisted of "unconscious counting" or an "arithmetical exercise of which we are unaware.

I hate textbooks. I hate how they shoehorn even the most incongruous words – like 'cup' and 'bookcase,' or 'pencil' and 'ashtray' – onto the same page, and then call it 'vocabulary.' In a conversation, the language is always fluid, moving, and you have to move with it. You walk and talk and see where the words come from, and where they should go. It was in this way that I learned to count like a Viking.

the number of imaginary sheep in this world remains a matter of guesswork, who is richer or poorer for it? No, sir; I'm not their scorekeeper. Let them count themselves, if they're so crazy mad after mathematics. Let them do their own dirty work. Coming around here, at this time of day, and asking me to count them!

Ford carried on counting quietly. This is about the most aggressive thing you can do to a computer, the equivalent of going up to a human being and saying Blood...blood...blood...blood...

Don't blame you, said Marvin and counted five hundred and ninety-seven thousand million sheep before falling asleep again a second later.

Only by counting could humans demonstrate their independence of computers.

Will you stop counting!' snarled Zaphod. 'Yes,' said Ford Prefect, 'in three minutes and thirty-five seconds.

Oh God," muttered Ford, slumped against a bulkhead. He started to count to ten. He was desperately worried that one day sentient life forms would forget how to do this. Only by counting could humans demonstrate their independence of computers.

That is the first thing anybody has said to me for seventeen years, three months and two days, five hours, nineteen minutes and twenty seconds. I've been counting." He

Now I lay me down to sleep, Try to count electric sheep. Sweet dream wishes you can keep, How I hate the night.

Don't blame you," said Marvin and counted five hundred and ninety-seven billion sheep before falling asleep again a second later.

On yedi y?l, üç ay, iki gün, beÅŸ saat, on dokuz dakika ve yirmi iki saniyedir birisinin bana söylediÄŸi ilk ÅŸey bu. dedi adam. Sayd?m.

He felt the way he imagined an angel must feel doing its celebrated dance on the head of a pin while being counted by philosophers

He slumped against a bulkhead and started to count to ten. He was desperately worried that one day sentient life forms would forget how to do this. Only by counting could humans demonstrate their independence of computers.

worried that one day sentient life forms would forget how to do this. Only by counting could humans demonstrate their independence of computers.