Quotes About Numbers

The truth is, there's an information blockade in America, and it must be broken. In order to find crucial facts, numbers and outside perspectives, a person must spend an hour searching and cross-searching on the computer.

The faster you want to get rich, the more accurate with numbers you must be.

I'm also not good with numbers either, so it's not a great mix. People apparently don't want you ball-parkin' it when it comes to their finances.

I just don't feel comfortable anymore with the kind of attention that I'm getting. It's purely the numbers of people that want a bit of the Cure or want a bit of me.

Vanity metrics are the numbers you want to publish on TechCrunch to make your competitors feel bad.

Soviet woman of child-bearing age had six to eight abortions. This translated into 10 million to 16 million abortions per year. (The comparable figures for the United States were 0.5 abortions per woman and roughly 1.5 million abortions per year.)

It relied on measures of geometrical objects: lengths of lines, areas of squares, volumes of cubes. All of these they called magnitudes. They thought of them as distinct from numbers and superior to them. This, I believe, is why Archimedes held pi at arm's length. He didn't know what to make of it. It was a strange, transcendent creature, more exotic than any number.

Yet twenty-two trillion is nothing compared to the infinitude of digits that define the actual pi. Think of how philosophically disturbing this is.

Circles are the simplest curves in geometry. Yet, surprisingly, measuring them—quantifying their properties with numbers—transcends geometry.

I want to stress that—only sixty digits. That's the most we would ever need to express one distance in terms of another.

Looking at numbers as groups of rocks may seem unusual, but actually it's as old as math itself. The word "calculate" reflects that legacy -- it comes from the Latin word calculus, meaning a pebble used for counting. To enjoy working with numbers you don't have to be Einstein (German for "one stone"), but it might help to have rocks in your head.

To grasp how different a million is from a billion, think about it like this: A million seconds is a little under two weeks; a billion seconds is about thirty-two years.

If whole numbers and their ratios couldn't even measure something as basic as the diagonal of a perfect square, then all was not number. This deflating letdown may explain why later Greek mathematicians always elevated geometry over arithmetic. Numbers couldn't be trusted anymore. They were inadequate as a foundation for mathematics.

My heart was deep space and my head was maths

This is often the way it is in physics. Our mistake is not that we take our theories too seriously, but that we do not take them seriously enough. It is always hard to realize that these numbers and equations we play with at our desks have something to do with the real world.

I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done.

24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence?

He deals the cards to find the answer The sacred geometry of chance The hidden law of a probable outcome The numbers lead a dance I know that the spades Are the swords of a soldier I know that the clubs are weapons of war I know that diamonds Mean money for this art But that's not the shape of my heart

That's something that I never thought I would have in a million years. We've done Gold before with 'Used To Love You Sober,' which I thought was awesome, but you don't realize once you get to Platinum, and you see the number difference between 500,000 and a million.

I know how to market a lot through social media. My social media, the numbers is crazy.

I think people see the social media numbers, and the assumption is made that we're running a campaign that is just social media, but I think we're running a very old-school campaign.

I've yet to see a correlation in my industry between great social media and great numbers.

My best country record only sold 200,000 copies.

I think we'd sold a couple hundred records with our first album, maybe 1,000 at the most.