Quotes About Calculation

used Occam's razor—the principle that given more than one explanation, you should begin by choosing the simplest one—and plausible reasoning to arrive at a neat formula for determining the "correct" price of a warrant.

Facing four hundred million man-years of calculations, with a resulting railroad car full of strategy tables, enough to fill a Rolodex five miles long, I tried to simplify the problem. I

In counting cards, it's mainly the fraction remaining that matters, not the number.

Human beings appear to be sufficiently selfish and calculating to be capable of indefinitely greater harmony and social homeostasis. This statement is not self-contradictory. True selfishness, if obedient to the other constraints of mammalian biology, is the key to a more nearly perfect social contract.

Most people who haven't been trained in physics probably think of what physicists do as a question of incredibly complicated calculations, but that's not really the essence of it. The essence of it is that physics is about concepts, wanting to understand the concepts, the principles by which the world works.

Ya da daha s?k olarak emin olduÄŸum konu, büyük bir giriÅŸime ad?m atarken kaynaklar?m?z hakk?nda doÄŸru bir hesap yapmam?z gerektiÄŸiydi; çünkü örneÄŸin bir kule inÅŸa edeceksek ve elimizde en son ta??n paras? haz?r deÄŸilse bu iÅŸe hiç baÅŸlamamal?yd?k.

it is not enough therefore, simply to surrender oneself brainlessly to love, when it knocks at the door, one must also calculate because of later life, which does sometimes follow.

The art of drawing conclusions from experiments and observations consists in evaluating probabilities and in estimating whether they are sufficiently great or numerous enough to constitute proofs. This kind of calculation is more complicated and more difficult than it is commonly thought to be. . .

A person who does not see merely own benefits in life relationships often fails to do the correct calculation of profit and loss also in mathematical tests unless and until practised a lot before.

Mathematics cannot handle physical quantities like density that literally go to infinity.

When you do calculations using quantum mechanics, even when you are calculating something perfectly sensible like the energy of an atomic state, you get an answer that is infinite. This means you are wrong - but how do you deal with that? Is there something wrong with the theory, or something wrong with the way you are doing the calculation?

Before the discovery of quantum mechanics, the framework of physics was this: If you tell me how things are now, I can then use the laws of physics to calculate, and hence predict, how things will be later.

We had a couple of films that, in the course of working on them, the budget shrank to the point where we couldn't make it. They literally ran the numbers: They took our numbers and the stars' numbers, and when they calculated whether we could make our money back or not, it said no.

Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.

Time and again, players lose because they make rash decisions. Therefore, you always have to remind yourself - don't hurry. Embarking on a risky combination that cannot be calculated to the end is certainly not the right thing to do.

Maybe we're kind of predisposed to think that anything a politician does is calculated and therefore suspect.

Fakat içimizde, bizim "ahlak" taraf?m?zla hiçbir ?ekilde münasebete geçmeyerek hadiseleri muhakeme eden, neticeler ç?karan ve tedbirler alan bir "hesabi" taraf?m?z vard? ve lafta de?ilse bile fiilde daima o galip ç?k?yor ve onun dedi?i oluyordu.

One essential object is to choose that arrangement which shall tend to reduce to a minimum the time necessary for completing the calculation.

We are perhaps not far removed from the time when we shall be able to submit the bulk of chemical phenomena to calculation.

When the Idea, of any Pleasure strikes your Imagination... let that time be employed in making a just Computation between, the duration of the Pleasure, and that of the Repentance sure to follow it.

A great help, thank you." Pitt calculated quickly. It must have been after ten, at this time of the year.

The extensive and detailed calculations of William Digby, the British writer, pointed to the diminishing prosperity of the Indian people and the systematic expropriation of India's wealth by Britain—including the telling fact that the salary of the Secretary of State for India in 1901, paid for by Indian taxes, was equivalent to the average annual income of 90,000 Indians.

Music is the hidden arithmetical exercise of a mind unconscious that it is calculating.

To an economist, no action is really a mistake, it's just an optimal answer to a different question.