logo

Quotes About Numbers

We are coming, Father Abraham, three hundred thousand more.
~ J. S. Gibbons
The path that leads through Latin and alebra is not the path to material success. But it may suggest much more: that understanding things is a waste of time; that if you want to succeed in the world and have a happy family and a nice home and a BMW you should not try to understand things but just add up the numbers or press the buttons or do whatever else it is that marketers are so richly rewarded for doing.
~ J.M. Coetzee
Lo que él quiere saber es qué tienen que ver las estrellas con los números, qué tienen que ver los números con la música y cómo puede una persona inteligente como Juan Sebastián Arroyo hablar de estrellas, números y música en una misma frase.
~ J.M. Coetzee
en cuanto empiece a comprender que el universo, no solo en la esfera de los números, sino en todo, está gobernado por leyes, y que nada ocurre por azar, se calmará y entrará en razón.
~ J.M. Coetzee
Pero los números no son así. Los números son un infinito bueno. Y ¿por qué? Pues porque, al ser infinitos en número, llenan todos los espacios del universo, y se apilan unos contra otros como ladrillos. Y así estamos seguros. No hay dónde caer.
~ J.M. Coetzee
Porque no los contaron en el último censo y por consiguiente no tienen números y por consiguiente no existen. Son fantasmas.
~ J.M. Coetzee
Las que no son números. Las que son números brillan. Las oscuras quieren ser números pero no pueden. Andan como hormigas por todo el cielo, pero no podemos verlas porque son oscuras. ¿Puedo ir ahora?
~ J.M. Coetzee
Uno-dos-tres": ¿acaso es un simple cántico que aprendemos en la escuela, ese cántico automático que llamamos "contar"? ¿O bien existe una manera de ver a través del cántico y percibir lo que hay detrás y más allá de él, a saber: el reino de los números en sí; de
~ J.M. Coetzee
La aritmética es para alguien que se propone salir al mundo, comprar y vender. No. Vamos a estudiar los números enteros, el uno, el dos, el tres, etcétera. Eso acordamos con David. La teoría de los números; lo que uno puede hacer con los números y qué sucede cuando los números se acaban.
~ J.M. Coetzee
Everybody think they're famous when they get 100,000 followers on Instagram and 5,000 on Twitter.
~ Meek Mill
I don't have a massive fan base. I don't have Patton Oswalt numbers, but the fan base I have is incredibly generous, and of the 22,000 people who follow me on Twitter, I think almost all of those people participate.
~ Greg Behrendt
In high school I wore No. 8, in college I wore No. 5, and five plus three is eight and five minus three is two, you know? Addition and subtraction.
~ Jameis Winston
It just happened that the course of the campaign went negative we actually went positive for a little over a week and you do the tracking of poll numbers and it hurt us. So the public responded to those type of ads.
~ Scott McCallum
There are two types of claims: those based on hard numbers and those based on slippery numbers.
~ Simon Sinek
Everybody thought Hillary Clinton was unbeatable, right? But we put together a Benghazi special committee, a select committee. What are her numbers today? Her numbers are dropping.
~ Kevin McCarthy
Now, we are selling over 5 million songs a day now. Isn't that unbelievable? That's 58 songs every second of every minute of every hour of every day.
~ Steve Jobs
It is said that God is always on the side of the big battalions.
~ Voltaire
We all have special numbers in our lives, and 4 is that for me. It's the day I was born. My mother's birthday, and a lot of my friends' birthdays, are on the fourth; April 4 is my wedding date.
~ Beyonce Knowles
All numbers are multiples of one, all sciences converge to a common point, all wisdom comes out of one center, and the number of wisdom is one.
~ Paracelsus
Mathematics doesn't care about those beyond the numbers.
~ Dejan Stojanovic, The Shape
People look to the order of numbers when the world falls apart.
~ Sylvia Nasar
Hockey players wear numbers because you can't always identify the body with dental records.
~ Tags: hockey
Except that the digital numbers shifted as she stared and the clock's panels turned to 3:53.
~ Tanya Anne Crosby
They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.
~ Ted Nelson