Quotes About Numbers

There are over seven billion of us today

I'm a book junkie. When I retire from wrestling I'm going to open a mystery bookstore." "Can you make a living selling mysteries?" "No. Nobody makes a living selling mysteries. The stores are all fronts for numbers operations.

The reality is that a person who has always struggled with numbers is unlikely to be a great accountant or statistician.

Until we respect bin Laden, we are going to die in numbers that are probably unnecessary.

We're continuing to work to bring immigration down to the tens of thousands.

Die ganzen Zahlen hat der liebe Gatt gemacht, alles andere ist Menschenwerk. The dear God has made the whole numbers, all the rest is man's work.

I dream in numbers, and I like to look up the meaning of numbers, and numbers stick out to me.

The only difference between Benito and Bad Bunny is 16 million followers on Instagram. And the money that Bad Bunny has in the bank. Benito had, like, $7. The numbers are different, but I'm still the same. Even my insecurities remain the same.

If we don't get this economy going, the numbers that represent this stimulus package are going to be small compared to the loss of revenue to the federal government for our economy.

I don't put a lot of stock into polls.

Stories change people while statistics give them something to argue about.

Primes seem to me to be these unarbitrary, unique, fated things. It cannot be coincidence that the mythical numbers of storytelling like 3, 7, and 13 are random. The lower-end primes have incredible resonance in fiction and art.

Math is pretty straightforward.

No one loves the numbers more than I do, but numbers don't measure everything, especially when it comes to evaluating defense. And in the end, I am going to trust Buck Showalter's eyes more than a set of statistics devised by someone who never played the game.

The tribes may have been numerous, but the overall population was plummeting. When the results of the 1900 census were published, the government counted only 237,000 Indians in a country of 76 million people. This was the lowest number ever, scholars and Indian authorities said, down from perhaps as many as 10 million at the time of white contact in 1492.

Seeing progress in changing numbers makes the repetitive fascinating and creates a positive feedback loop. Once again, the act of measuring is often more important than what you measure. To quote the industrial statistician George Box: "Every model is wrong, but some are useful.

there certainly are philosophers who take seriously the question of whether numbers exist, and this distinguishes them from mathematicians, who either find it obvious that numbers exist or do not understand what is being asked.

The curious switch, from initially perceiving an obstruction to a problem to eventually embodying this obstruction as a number or an algebraic object of some sort that we can effectively study, is repeated over and over again, in different contexts, throughout mathematics. Much later, complex quadratic irrationalities also made their appearance. Again these were not at first regarded as "numbers as such," but rather as obstructions to the solution of problems.

The Nazi and Soviet regimes turned people into numbers, some of which we can only estimate, some of which we can reconstruct with fair precision. It is for us as scholars to seek those numbers and to put them into perspective. It is for us as humanists to turn the numbers back into people. If we cannot do that, then Hitler and Stalin have shaped not only our world, but our humanity.

Here, perhaps, is a purpose for history, somewhere between the record of death and its constant reinterpretation. Only a history of mass killing can unite the numbers and the memories. Without history, the memories become private, which today means national; and the numbers become public, which is to say an instrument in the international competition for martyrdom.

When history is removed, numbers go upward and memories go inward, to all of our peril.

I like to crack the jokes now and again, but it's only because I struggle with math.

I feel like with me being a big part of any offense, then the numbers are going to come.

I am so conscious of my image because I have a daughter and have said no to offers for item numbers down South.