Quotes About Calculation

Many technical people consider estimating difficult; and indeed, at this stage, it is definitely as much art as it is science.

Subtraction's overrated. It's like adding, only backwards. You're not ever going to need it.

A knowledge of combinations is the foundation of positional chess.

Calculators can only calculate - they cannot do mathematics.

Organized common (or uncommon) sense -- very basic knowledge -- is an enormously powerful tool. There are huge dangers with computers. People calculate too much and think too little.

I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine.

that was the time calculated by the barber who based his estimate on the length of his customers' stubble.

you know how to be wicked, and being wicked is smart in this day and age.

Absolutely. It's the unhappy people who get things done. Have you ever noticed that? They build things. And discover things. And invent things. Like calculus. Only a very unhappy person could have come up with that. The happy ones just sit around eating strudel.

And it was only as he rose from the bed, his body illuminated by the colored lights of the city, that I caught the glint of calculation behind his eyes, a cold, blank set to his face. His shadow self, and not a nice one.

Time is irrelevant to math.

History is retroactive math

As if one killed by calculation! A person kills only from an impulse that springs from his blood and sinews, from the vestiges of ancient struggles, from the need to live and the joy of being strong.

It's easy K. on one side of the page you got your costs and on the other side your benefits. All you do is mark which one is which, then you weigh one side against the other and you get your decision just like that. that's all you ever have to do. i live by this." "But what if you don't know the difference between a benefit and a cost? what if you've never been very good at telling a plus from a minus?

The definition of gross national product is nonsense, because they don't put such factors as environmental damage and limited resources into the calculation. In the mean time there is another parameter, the gross domestic product, but this is not much better.

your mind becomes a supercomputer capable of calculating the gyrations of your car, multiplying that by the speed of the fall over the angle of descent, factoring in Newton's laws of motion and, in a split second, coming to the panicked conclusion that this is gonna hurt like hell.

How do you calculate loss, as in the loss of place, encompassing those whose "investment" in their home was not simply economic but who had nowhere else to go? How do you calculate the loss of a place, not only its real geography but the geography of its imagination?

Experimental work of great refinement is necessary in order to determine atomic weights. No relationships between them have yet been certainly found which make it possible for us to compute by any sort of calculation exactly the value of any one atomic weight from any other.

There are times when you'll only have one or two seconds to decide if you're going to bet on something and you need to be decisive. You need to do math quickly in your head.

That's my sense of how crime works: that it's not any kind of calculated evil driven by the devil, but just control disintegrating.

There's just one thing I can't figure out. My income tax!

The Business Profits Tax, which is imposed on in-state businesses, we need to impose the same thing on out-of-state businesses, because the way the Business Profits Tax is calculated, it is highly dependent on how much sales and profits are generated in-state.

The A.M.T. is a parallel system for calculating tax liability intended to ensure that high-income taxpayers pay a substantial amount in federal tax even if they have large deductions or other items to offset income.

5 or 1 pound," for that performance only. Inflation makes it hard to calculate the actual value of a pound sterling at that time, but some idea of its worth may be obtained by recalling that a British working man with a small family could live in a city on just over one pound a week. For regular