Quotes About Numbers

If all those psychics know the winning lottery numbers, why are they all still working?

In a climate where people don't understand the numbers, newspapers, campaigners, companies, and politicians can get away with murder

He's just simply John5 because he's the fifth person that we've hired. In the future, everyone will have numbers instead of names

I try not to have personal goals. Personal numbers is a mind-set. The only numbers I care about are in the win column.

Women have a passion for mathematics. They divide their age in half, double the price of their clothes, and always add at least five years to the age of their best friend.

Relationships were meant only for two people; unfortunately for some of us, math is not our favorite subject.

trying to take satisfaction in life from the numbers you ring up is ultimately no more successful than making survival your goal.

Because, you know, prime numbers are fucking serious, man. Some serious shit. They can make you lose it. They're like sirens. They call you in with their isolated beauty and before you know it you are in some major mind-shit.

Because prime numbers are fucking serious, man. Some serious shit. They can make you lose it. They're like sirens. They call you in with their isolated beauty and before you know it you are in some major mind-shit.

Los números primos vuelven a la gente loca, pero literalmente

Non-voters are the single biggest factor in American political life, and their swelling numbers are, just like the Trump phenomenon, a profound indictment of our system. But they don't exist on TV, because they suspend our disbelief in the Hitler vs. Hitler show.

The square of every prime number is one more than a multiple of 24.

You have two numbers in your age when you are ten. It's the beginning of growing up.

It's simply a matter of creative accounting.

Data journalism is the practice of finding stories in numbers and using numbers to tell stories.

Nature itself rests on an internal foundation of archetypal principles symbolized by numbers, shapes, and their arithmetic and geometric relationships.

The ten numbers are a complete archetypal sourcebook. They are the original ten patents for designs found all through the universe.

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

He can't walk down steps … can't walk down hills. [He's got] mental blocks … [He] can't handle numbers … they have no meaning to him.

Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes.

The Yankees handed out numbers based upon a player's spot in the batting order, which is how Babe Ruth acquired the number 3. His teammate, Lou Gehrig, hit cleanup, and his number, 4, became the first ever retired by any team on July 4, 1939, the day he called himself "the luckiest man on the face of the earth.

It was possible that he was in love with the way she wrote the number two—her parallel lines expressing a kind of free movement inside the invisible box that contained the ideograph's strokes.

Back then, we all thought Lever 2000 was the best because the number "2000" seemed so impressive. Were there 1999 formulas before they landed on this one? That sounds really well researched. I'm in!

Because we are forced to learn about numbers and operations with numbers while we are still too young to appreciate them—a preparation for life which hardly excites our interest in the future—we grow up believing that numbers are drab and uninteresting. But the number system warrants attention not only as the basis of mathematics, but because it contains weighty and beautiful ideas which lend themselves to powerful applications.