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Quotes About Numbers

The heart will turn to a prune if love is always by the numbers. How will you know if someone really loves you if they only meet your expectations and not your needs?
~ Robert Fulghum
Over the years we saw what worked and refined our methods. Violence didn't work. Numbers did. That's the secret, in case you are looking for the secret to resisting an imperial power, which was what we were doing through those years. Non-violent resistance of the total population, or as much of it as you can get. That's what works.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
Strangely enough, without names they were still things. He could see them and think about them in terms of shapes, or numbers. Formula of description. Various combinations of conic sections and the six surfaces of revolution symmetrical around an axis, the plane, the sphere, the cylinder, the catenoid, the unduloid, and the nodoid; shapes without the names, but the shapes alone were like names. Spatializing language.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
Like what? Mary asked. Issued for what? For not burning carbon. Started writing on the whiteboard, feeling she was oriented enough to be ready for some figures. Not equations, which might just as well be Sanskrit to her, only some numbers.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
A spreadsheet for an innovative idea reports the mathematical relationship between made up numbers. You can't cash a spreadsheet.
~ Scott D. Anthony
Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business.
~ Jesse Ventura
Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers.
~ Jesse Ventura
Genius, in one respect, is like gold; numbers of persons are constantly writing about both, who have neither.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
During the first firing a dozen or so numbers from the dock neglected to get out of the way - nothing remained of them except some crumbs and soot.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
AÃ…Â¥ žije Jednotný stát, aÃ…Â¥ žijí ?ísla, aÃ…Â¥ žije Dobroditel!
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
Soon after I began working for the Professor, I realized that he talked about numbers whenever he was unsure of what to say or do. Numbers were also his way of reaching out to the world. They were safe, a source of comfort.
~ Yôko Ogawa
Writing was born as the maidservant of human consciousness, but is increasingly becoming its master. Our computers have trouble understanding how Homo sapiens talks, feels and dreams. So we are teaching Homo sapiens to talk, feel and dream in the language of numbers, which can be understood by computers. And
~ Yuval Noah Harari
Writing was born as the maidservant of human consciousness, but is increasingly becoming its master. Our computers have trouble understanding how Homo sapiens talks, feels and dreams. So we are teaching Homo sapiens to talk, feel and dream in the language of numbers, which can be understood by computers.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
In 1700 the world was home to some 700 million humans. In 1800 there were 950 million of us. By 1900 we almost doubled our numbers to 1.6 billion. And by 2000 that quadrupled to 6 billion. Today there are just shy of 7 billion Sapiens
~ Yuval Noah Harari
A person who wishes to influence the decisions of governments, organisations and companies must therefore learn to speak in numbers.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
Los humanos pensamos más en relatos que en hechos, números o ecuaciones, y cuanto más sencillo es el relato, mejor.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
partial script was composed of ten signs, representing the numbers from 0 to 9. Confusingly, these signs are known as Arabic numerals even though they were first invented by the Hindus (even more confusingly, modern Arabs use a set of digits that look quite different from Western ones). But the Arabs get the credit because when they invaded India they encountered the system, understood its usefulness, refined it, and spread it through the Middle East and then to Europe. When
~ Yuval Noah Harari
the numbers from 0 to 9. Confusingly, these signs are known as Arabic numerals even though they were first invented by the Hindus (even more confusingly, modern Arabs use a set of digits that look quite different from Western ones). But the Arabs get the credit because when they invaded India they encountered the system, understood its usefulness, refined it, and spread it through the Middle East and then to Europe.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
At night numbers must sleep; it is their duty, just as it is their duty to work in the daytime. Not sleeping at night is a criminal offense.
~ zamyatin yevgeny iv
Six? Here?" he says. Six, here. Seven, eight, nine, anywhere.
~ Deb Caletti
Ultimately, it's hard to gauge whether deniers have increased in number or are just good at using social media to make themselves seem more numerous than they actually are. While either alternative is disturbing, the deniers clearly feel more emboldened than ever before.
~ Deborah E. Lipstadt
Mathematics doesn't care about those beyond the numbers.
~ Dejan Stojanovic
To minds tormented by the divine thirst, it is useless to offer the most certain knowledge of the laws of numbers and the arrangement of the universe
~ Etienne Gilson
Numbers are the highest degree of knowledge. It is knowledge itself.
~ Plato