Quotes About Numbers

Information is just signs and numbers, while knowledge involves their meaning. What we want is knowledge, but what we get is information.

Early on it was much easier to play leads, but now independent movies are being co-opted by the studio system, and they want bigger names to guarantee more audience and more numbers.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

How vivid is the suffering of the few when the people are few and how the suffering of nameless millions in two world wars is blurred over by numbers.

Since the end of the Second World War, our population has more than doubled to 27 million people.

Four can be as stupid as ten. No need to crowd the room.

I would love to feel satisfied doing a Hindi film when there is no restriction of commerce, which is song and dance, item numbers.

I'm from there. You know, when you grow up with these people and see them every day and then you look at the numbers it was easy; it was a no-brainer. And when Sony took a look, it was a no-brainer to them, too.

I think I'm statistically literate and numbers-oriented. But I'm nowhere near as sophisticated as a lot of other folks I see. Maybe that helps me not get too jargony and communicate this stuff in a way that's somewhat accessible.

We must memorize nine numbers and deny we have a soul.

Sovereignty was not an issue in this campaign. The sovereignty numbers that were there before the campaign are still there. Sovereignty is as alive as it was. But there is work to do to convince Quebecers.

Numbers are important to the life, you better stay good at arithmetics.

Good luck lies in odd numbers.

There's luck in odd numbers.

TAKE RICHES AWAY FROM INDUSTRY BY ORGANIZED FORCE OF NUMBERS, INSTEAD OF THE BETTER METHOD OF GIVING A FAIR DAY'S WORK FOR A FAIR DAY'S PAY.

A mathematician thinks in numbers, a lawyer in laws, and an idiot thinks in words.

Nero, seu otário. Não se deixe iludir pelo dinheiro. São apenas números. Ser dono do próprio nariz é um estado de espírito".

I am simplifying numbers here for clarity.

As we travel more on this planet, epidemics will be more acute—we will have a germ population dominated by a few numbers, and the successful killer will spread vastly more effectively.

that professionals are significantly influenced by numbers that they know to be irrelevant to their decision

In a population of hundreds of millions, such a small number of people is a mere drop in the bucket... but enough drops can make any bucket overflow

Few researchers today accept Dobyns's estimates—they seem extreme—but most believe that native numbers were far higher than estimated by previous generations. Most, but not all.

The number-shape duality in Greek numbers made it easy; after all, zero didn't

Today most mathematicians accept the continuum hypothesis as true, though some study non-Cantorian transfinite numbers where the continuum hypothesis is taken to be false.)