Quotes About Numbers

It never happens that, when we go home and open the refrigerator, we see all infinitely many prime numbers there.

Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.

Why isn't the number 11 pronounced onety one?

Remember, in China when you are one in a million, there are 1,300 other people just like you.

If 13 is unlucky, then 12 and 14 are guilty by association.

Thirty millions, mostly fools.

over 85% of all statistics are made up on the spot.

I went to a 7-11 and asked for a 2x4 and a box of 3x5's. The clerk said, "ten-four."

Netflix did it right and focused on all the things that have replaced the dumb, raw numbers of the Nielsen world - they embraced targeted marketing and 'brand' as a virtue higher than ratings.

They say everything looks better with odd numbers of things. But sometimes I put even numbers—just to upset the critics.

If you plug in a number and the math starts getting creepy (anything involving fractions or negative numbers is creepy)...

Zero invites imagination, but small numbers invite questions about whether large numbers will ever materialize.

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

INFINITY is an illusion, we are just too lazy to count...

I've been doing the hotel accounting long enough to know that two and two equals whatever you want it to be. It's simply a matter of perception and misdirection.

See, the human mind is kind of like... a pi

Plus, there's an even darker side to goal setting. Chasing goals often leads companies to compromise their morals, honesty, and integrity to reach those fake numbers. The best intentions slip when you're behind. Need to improve margins by a few points? Let's turn a blind eye to quality for a while. Need to find another $800,000 this quarter to hit that number? Let's make it harder for customers to request refunds.

If you really want to be depressed, weigh yourself in grams.

the legion, which was itself a body of six thousand eight hundred and thirty-one Romans, might, with its attendant auxiliaries, amount to about twelve thousand five hundred men.

We don't know where numbers come from or why they have the properties they do, unless you believe that they are a system invented by humans based on the ways in which we apprehend the world, a creation of our thinking and therefore our neurology.

Human beings have shone a light on numbers, and we've picked out a logical system," she said. "You can't bring God into this. It's unnecessary." After that I shut up around her about Plato. She also said, "I have to admit I was kind of alarmed when I realized how bad your arithmetic skills were." "How did you know that?" "From the things you would ask.

The Munduruku have many things, but not enough numbers to count them. Cantor has provided us with as many numbers as we like, but there are no longer enough things to count.

While the idea of worshipping numbers may now seem bizarre, it perhaps reflects the scale of wonderment at the discovery of the first fragments of abstract mathematical knowledge. The excitement of learning that there is order in nature, when previously you were not aware that there was any at all, must have felt like a religious awakening.

It's a sobering fact, the historian Timothy Snyder points out, that 'cultures of memory are organized by round numbers, intervals of ten; but somehow the remembrance of the dead is easier when the numbers are not round, when the final digit is not a zero.