Quotes About Numbers

they'd saved 122,300 lives—the equivalent of throwing a life preserver to every man, woman, and child in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

For numbers less than 1, you can use a method we call "counting in baskets" to make things start to show up as whole numbers. If you find that .2% of people have a certain trait, use a basket size of at least 500, maybe 1,000, to make them show up as real people. "1 out of 500" or "2 out of 1,000" makes these abstract percentages into real things.

Make the baskets as small as you can while retaining the wholeness of whole numbers. If 2/3rds or .67 or 67% of people didn't like the new flavor, then make them feel like people in a room. "2 out of 3 people thought cheesy marshmallow was "disgusting." Going up to 67 out of 100 would dilute understanding.

The Web is the ultimate marketplace of ideas, governed by the laws of big numbers.

The past tense of "921 is

MATH: THE ONLY PLACE WHERE PEOPLE CAN BUY 87 WATERMELONS AND NOBODY WONDERS WHY.

Without the numbers to the right of pi, pi just becomes three,

The Objective is inspiring and motivates those people who don't dig numbers. For those who do love numbers, the Key Results keep the Objective real. I know I've got a good Objective when Ileap out of bed in the morning eager to make it happen. I know I've got the right Key Results when I am also a little scared you can't make them.

Through her ingenuity she invented a shorthand Greek script in which a long written narrative could be transcribed with far fewer letters, and which is still used by the Greeks today, a fine invention whose discovery demanded great sublety. She [Minerva/Pallas (Athena)] invented numbers and a means of quickly counting and adding sums.

There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read balance sheets cannot write.

Tell me not in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou are, to dust thou returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.

God made integers, all else is the work of man.

They say there are about 12 million illegal immigrants in this country. But if you ask a native American, that number is more like 300 million.

We can't all be heroes. Then who would the heroes fight? It's a matter of numbers really. Just work out the sums.

For every hero, don't legions of foot soldiers have to die in the background? It was a matter of numbers, like the corpse in the castle said. Just work out the sums.

The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic.

Human beings cannot comprehend very large or very small numbers. It would be useful for us to acknowledge that fact.

In pre-election polling, momentum is more important than position, and in primary polling, national numbers are useless.

Facebook is not a company of grass-roots tech enthusiasts. Facebook is not a game tech company. Facebook has a history of caring about building user numbers, and nothing but building user numbers.

We had a bunch of models for user adoption of Robinhood Gold. The data team had some silly names for a range of adoption levels: 'Mediocre expectations,' 'middle-of-the-road expectations' and 'great expectations.' The numbers we ended up with were significantly higher than 'great expectations.'

Nature never uses prime numbers. But mathematicians do.

When someone uses 'low eight figures,' that means barely eight figures.

Big data is mostly about taking numbers and using those numbers to make predictions about the future. The bigger the data set you have, the more accurate the predictions about the future will be.

With infectious disease, without vaccines, there's no safety in numbers.