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Quotes About Numbers

The virtue of binary is that it's the simplest possible way of representing numbers. Anything else is more complicated. You can catch errors with it, it's unambiguous in its reading, there are lots of good things about binary. So it is very, very simple once you learn how to read it.
~ George M. Whitesides
Immigration is not about visa numbers or building a fence. It is about reclaiming our roots as a nation of immigrants and a refuge for those who have been cast aside.
~ Mike Quigley
The book was called How to Lie with Statistics.
~ Louise Penny
Lies, damned lies, and statistics?
~ Louise Penny
Under certain conditions, index numbers may do very useful service as an aid to investigation into the history and statistics of prices; for the extension of the theory of the nature and value of money they are unfortunately not very important.
~ Ludwig von Mises
When I agreed to call him about lunch he gave me his telephone number at the shipyard, his extension there, the telephone number of his apartment, the telephone number of a cottage he had in Connecticut, and the telephone number of the club where he lunched and played cards. I wrote all these numbers on a piece of paper and when we said goodbye I dropped the paper into a wastebasket.
~ John Cheever
Letters starts with ABC, numbers starts with 123, music starts with DO-RE-MI, love stars with YOU and ME!!
~ Ritu Ghatourey
Urban design is where the number are and easy size of installation plus the fast lessons to extend out to larger design acreage.
~ Unknown
We will certainly have to rethink the way in which we design and protect places where large numbers of Australians and indeed this will happen around the world.
~ Malcolm Turnbull
If the statistics are boring, then you've got the wrong numbers.
~ Edward R. Tufte
Numbers serve to discipline rhetoric. Without them it is too easy to follow flights of fancy, to ignore the world as it is and to remold it nearer the heart's desire.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers.
~ James Clerk Maxwell
I was x years old in the year x2.
~ Augustus De Morgan
We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
~ Galileo Galilei
I've been in television for a little bit, and when people are attracted to what you've created, you get very excited because of the numbers. The business side is very exciting.
~ Lisa Ann Walter
We know that behind every budget number are real Louisiana citizens.
~ John Bel Edwards
I'm not keeping track, but I've got six goals and seven assists! Of course you keep track of it. If anyone says they don't, they're lying!
~ Matt Doherty
Look at those numbers running. Money makes time. It used to be the other way around. Clock time accelerated the rise of capitalism. People stopped thinking about eternity. They began to concentrate on hours, measurable hours, man-hours, using labor more efficiently.
~ Don DeLillo
She was taking a round of medications, a mystical wheel, the ritualistic design of the hours and days in tablets and capsules, in colors, shapes and numbers.
~ Don DeLillo
Numbers behave, words do not.
~ Don DeLillo
She was transcribing names and phone numbers from an old book to a new one. There were no addresses. Her friends had phone numbers only, a race of people with a seven-bit analog consciousness.
~ Don DeLillo
It's said that science will dehumanize people and turn them into numbers. That's false, tragically false. Look for yourself. This is the concentration camp and crematorium at Auschwitz. This is where people were turned into numbers. Into this pond were flushed the ashes of some four million people. And that was not done by gas. It was done by arrogance, it was done by dogma, it was done by ignorance.
~ Jacob Bronowski
But she didn't believe in God. Or Jesus. Or Satan. Or prayer. I believe in words, she said. I believe in numbers and all the history I understand. I believe in things I can see. When he was a little boy she used to hug him and say, And man-oh-man how I believe in you, Aubrey. My love. My light. My life.
~ Jacqueline Woodson
Media channels are fooling people by scaring them by reporting every cases as corona,delta,omnicron and even inflating numbers and fools are spreading this fake report by discussing it in public
~ Unknown