Quotes About Numbers

The Indians kept increasing in numbers until it was estimated that we were fighting from 800 to 1,000 of them.

I am completely obsessed with numbers and data. I have become a scientist in later life.

One of the reasons why Australia and Canada have support for migration is because they control the numbers.

I'm a businessman, and what I know is numbers and business.

I think putting numbers together into a coherent framework always seemed to me to be what really matters.

I think my numbers speak for themselves.

Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can't be good for you.

It's true that I have always been very comfortable with numbers.

LVMH is not just about numbers. It's about people.

If immigration is simply seen as a numbers game, nobody will ever win that debate. The question should be: what is it we want to achieve? What do we expect of those who are arriving? What is the basic deal?

If Hello' had been my debut film, the numbers would have played out differently.

They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.

Fame is fleeting. My numbers mean more to me than my name.

I think I've nurtured the following that I have to the point where I can consistently do a certain type of numbers when I put a project out.

Data and data sets are not objective; they are creations of human design. We give numbers their voice, draw inferences from them, and define their meaning through our interpretations.

I just think it's patently absurd for scientists to categorize objects on the basis of the numbers of objects that they can remember.

You'd have to say Robert plus John equals four, and if the four's name were Albert, things would be hopeless.

considered amicable because the proper divisors of 220 are 1, 2, 4, 5, 10, 11, 20, 22, 44, 55 and 110 which, when added together, reach 284. And the proper divisors of 284 are 1, 2, 4, 71 and 142, of which the sum is 220. They are the only amicable numbers under 1,000.

The night sky lies so sprent with stars that there is scarcely space of black at all and they fall all night in bitter arcs and it is so that their numbers are no less.

If you have a patient with a condition that's not understood why not ascribe it to a disorder that is also not understood? Autism occurs in males more than it does in females. So does higher order mathematical intuition. We think: What is this about? Dont know. What is at the heart of it? Dont know. All I can tell you is that I like numbers. I like their shapes and their colors and their smells and the way they taste. And I dont like to take people's word for things.

if mathematics is performed mostly in the unconscious we still have no notion as to how it goes about it. ... And why is it so often right? Who does it check its work with? I've had solutions simply handed to me. Out of the blue. The locus ceruleus perhaps. And it has to remember everything. No notes. It's hard to escape the unsettling conclusion that it is not using numbers.

When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.

En palabras de George Dyson: «El computador de programa almacenado, tal y como lo imaginó Alan Turing y lo plasmó John von Neumann, diluyó la distinción entre números que significan cosas y números que hacen cosas. Nuestro universo nunca volvería a ser el mismo».

Numbers in roman type refer to illustrations in the Photos section; numbers in italics refer to book pages.