Quotes About Quantity

I'm going to say something rather controversial. Big data, as people understand it today, is just a bigger version of small data. Fundamentally, what we're doing with data has not changed; there's just more of it.

That's a problem. I mean, like any sort of growing startup organization, we are sort of overwhelmed by our growth. And that means we're getting enormous quantity of whistleblower disclosures of a very high caliber, but don't have enough people to actually process and vet this information.

The older view of the nature of heat was that it is a substance, very fine and imponderable indeed, but indestructible, and unchangeable in quantity, which is an essential fundamental property of all matter.

it would only take one dummy to kill us all, and we had four hundred and ninety-nine to spare.

Great chefs know it's the appearance of food that counts...but great eaters know its the amount of food that counts

How many books does she have? I asked her that and she said she had enough to make two brawny movers weep.

Breakdowns are your greatest breakthroughs. Rank the severity, and know this is the quantity of the spectacular gift you'll receive on the other side. You planned it all perfectly.

New York isn't jobs, they reply, it's temperament. Most people are in New York because they need evidence - in large quantities - of human expressiveness; and they need it not now and then, but every day. That is what they need. Those who go off to the manageable cities can do without; those who come to New York cannot.

It is all about the quality of the communication, not the quantity.

L'agriculture moderne a certes résolu les insuffisances en terme quantitatifs, ce qui a permis la sécurité alimentaire, mais au prix d'une insalubrité croissante.

he'd added more than twenty stones to each

I have to drink this much to be as unfunny as you.

I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.

10x quality and transformation is how you race to the top. 2x quantity and competition is how you race to the bottom. Atomic Habits

10x quality and transformation is how you race to the top. 2x quantity and competition is how you race to the bottom.

The prayer level of a church never rises any higher than the personal example and passion of the leaders. The quantity and quality of prayer in leadership meetings is the essential indicator of the amount of prayer that will eventually arise among the congregation.

It is quality rather than quantity that matters.

The common man is the sovereign consumer whose buying or abstention from buying ultimately determines what should be produced and in what quantity and quality.

The aim was to regulate the value of money by increasing or diminishing the quantity of it. The effects of these measures appeared to provide an inductive proof of the correctness of this superficial version of the Quantity Theory, and incidentally concealed the weaknesses of its logic.

To measure is to determine the ratio of one quantity to another which is invariable or assumed to be invariable. Invariability in respect of the property to be measured, or at least the legitimacy of assuming such invariability, is a sine qua non of all measurement. Only when this assumption is admissible is it possible to determine the variations that are to be measured.

Naive inflationism demands an increase in the quantity of money without suspecting that this will diminish the purchasing power of the money.

In reviewing the determinants of the rate of interest, writers emphasize over and over again that it is not the greater or smaller quantity of money that is of importance, but the greater or smaller quantity of other economic goods.

Memory isn't something that stays with you at all times. It's a quantity that gets summoned or evoked or brought to mind. It gets carried to an arena for our viewing pleasure. By definition, then, there are times it must go missing.

It takes quantity as well as quality to develop warm and caring relationships.