Quotes About Numbers

The impression that the Muslim world indulges kinds of violence that the West has outgrown is not a symptom of Islamophobia or Orientalism but is borne out by the numbers.

Quadratic reciprocity is the song of love in the land of prime 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?

August 2nd, 2006 is just a taste of what war is. We lost two people that day. There are companies, battalions that have lost half, most of their unit. You look at the numbers from WW2 or Vietnam, it's astounding.

Dividing one number by another is mere computation ; knowing what to divide by what is mathematics.

Don't talk about percentages of numbers when the numbers might be negative.

People often complain that no one likes facts and numbers and reason and science anymore, but as someone who talks about those things in public, I can tell you that's not true. People love numbers, and are impressed by them, sometimes more than they should be.

numerically flavored advice.

If you have before you a square whose side has length X, its area is X times X—indeed, that's why we call the operation of multiplying a number by itself squaring!

Democracy is an abuse of statistics.

But no city-state ever solved the problem of incorporating new territories and new populations into its existing structure, or involving really large numbers of people in its political life (p. 11)

IOI required its egg hunters, which it referred to as "oologists," to use their employee numbers as their OASIS avatar names. These numbers were all six digits in length, and they also began with the numeral "6," so everyone began calling them the Sixers. These days, most gunters referred to them as "the Sux0rz." (Because they sucked.)

GSS—13th Floor—Vault #42–8675309.

Only a miracle can save us from such whirlpools. This miracle has happened, even countless times, when a man stepped out of the lifeless numbers to extend a helping hand to others.

Mathematics may be defined as the economy of counting. There is no problem in the whole of mathematics which cannot be solved by direct counting.

Era una cosa bellissima un uomo che spiegava ai bambini i numeri, gli anni della storia, i posti della geografia. C'era una carta colorata del mondo, uno che non era mai uscito dalla città poteva conoscere l'Africa che era verde, il Polo Sud bianco, l'Australia gialla e gli oceani azzurri.

Now numbers are the sole criterion; and numbers are certainly no proof of reason, justice or capacity.

There is a shortage of teachers but the January 2001 schools census showed that teacher numbers were at their highest level than at any time since 1984 - and 11 000 higher than 1997.

It could be argued that positive psychology is little more than ideology recycled in the form of charts, tables, and number-filled diagrams; an easily marketable pop psychology touted by scientists in white coats.

We all know that Americans love their statistics - in sport, obviously. And in finance too.

Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.

There's not a great danger in releasing the first single from an album without a video because the momentum from the last album will cause large numbers of fans to buy it.

I remember when we'd get excited that we had 70 people in the store a day. Now we're, like, 'We only did 2,000 people?'

What I am saying is that I have the numbers to replace the 18 DMK MPs. I mean what I say.