Quotes About Numbers

principles have become more dangerous than passions. It's getting uncommonly easy to kill people in large numbers, and the first thing a principle does—if it really is a principle—is to kill somebody.

En sí misma, la Bistromática es una nueva y revolucionaria forma de entender el comportamiento de los números. Así como Einstein observó que el tiempo no era absoluto sino que dependía del movimiento del espectador en el espacio, y que el espacio no era absoluto sino que dependía del movimiento del espectador en el tiempo, así se comprende ahora que los números no son absolutos, sino que dependen del movimiento del espectador en los restaurantes

Bistromathics itself is simply a revolutionary new way of understanding the behavior of numbers. Just as Einstein observed that space was not an absolute but depended on the observer's movement in space, and that time was not an absolute, but depended on the observer's movement in time, so it is now realized that numbers are not absolute, but depend on the observer's movement in restaurants.

Numbers written on restaurant checks within the confines of restaurants do not follow the same mathematical laws as numbers written on any other pieces of paper in any other parts of the Universe.

Bistromathics is simply a revolutionary new way of understanding the behaviour of numbers. Just as Einstein observed that time was not an absolute and depended on the observer's movement in space... so it is now realized that numbers are not absolute, but depend on the observer's movement in restaurants.

Just as Einstein observed that time was not an absolute but depended on the observer's movement in space, and that space was not an absolute but depended on the observer's movement in time, so it now realized that numbers are not absolute, but depended on the observer's movement in restaurants.

The numbers, he said, are awful. He resumed his search. Arthur nodded wisely to himself. After a while he realized that this wasn't getting him anywhere and decided that he would say what? after all. In space travel, repeated Slartibartfast, all the numbers are awful.

I think there's something heavenly about numbers, anyway.

the church's growth; it is life in "the way of Christ," distinctive and hopeful. Christians, as Cyprian knew well, were growing in numbers because they were distinct from the "unjust"—living patiently in relation to their neighbors and enemies, doing good to them, and waiting for them to come to faith.

We are sick with fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas. Meditation is therefore the art of suspending verbal and symbolic thinking for a time, somewhat as a courteous audience will stop talking when a concert is about to begin

the incantations which could shatter a mind into ones and zeros; pure number.

I grew up using maps and having a sense of direction, and now I have a phone. I used to try to remember numbers, and now I... can just call them up instantly. And that's great. But what's happening right now is that we're in a phase of human evolution where we're merging with machines.

I have a photographic memory for numbers.

Everything is physics and math.

No one was interested in picking up a midlist series, even though I have a decent fanbase and respectable numbers.

The Congressman ascertained that the consulate in Havana had numbers to feed the pigs.

I come from Wall Street, and you'll never see me do a PowerPoint because I'm all about Excel spreadsheets. If it's not in the numbers, I don't care how strategic it is; it doesn't play out.

I didn't leave Wall Street because the work was against my nature - I do have a pretty good head for numbers. I left because I had this love for writing.

Most of the tasks we do are for humans. For example, a tax calculation is counting numbers so the government can pull money out from my wallet, but government consists of humans.

I still remember most people in the industry warning me that I was not playing the stardom game and that I was becoming niche because these content films don't do big numbers.

Squaring numbers is a symmetrical process that I like very much. And when I divide one number by another, say, 13 divided by 97, I see a spiral rotating downwards in larger and larger loops that seem to warp and curve. The shapes coalesce into the right number. I never write anything down.

it's as if I have just solved Skivver's predictive equations, or even better, as if I have intuited the One Equation, seen the numbers behind the moon and the stars, behind mountains and history, art and death and yearning, as if my comprehension is large enough that it can encompass universes, from the beginning to the end of time.

Categories No. 1 and No. 2: Rolled-up trips and three cards to a low straight flush.

Charles Bascomb was a man who loved figures—the genuine, Arabic kind, that is.