Quotes About Calculation

A cubic meter of hazelnuts is sufficient to provide 10 percent of the annual energy needs of a mixed population of twenty people.

So, one-third of the time it's a bad idea to move, which means that two-thirds of the time it's a good idea.

Good decisions came less through rational calculation, more from sudden good moods. But so too did some of his worst decisions.

What's Julie's number?" Curran glanced at me. "Julie's fluctuating between thirty-two and thirty-four units. Her shift coefficient is six point five and she's been at it for sixteen hours." Dear God, I'd need a damn calculator.

Calculating how much carbon is absorbed by which forests and farms is a tricky task, especially when politicians do it.

Good overtaking is important to me. There are a lot of quick maths involved. I will prepare from the corner before, thinking, 'If I exit this way, and the driver ahead of me is in a certain position, then I'll go for it.' If he is not where I hope he will be, then I won't pull the trigger. If he is, my decision has already been made.

I know plenty of entrepreneurs who are numbers first. They tend to be highly analytical people, and before they pull the trigger, all the numbers have to line up just right.

How does incoherence give birth to synchrony? It dawned on me one day that there was a straightforward way to frame the question as an exercise in differential equations: I needed to view incoherence as an equilibrium state and then calculate its stability.

What I'm trying to say is that his calculation of ? was heroic, both logically and arithmetically. By using a 96-gon inside the circle and a 96-gon outside the circle, he ultimately proved that ? is greater than 3 + 10/71 and less than 3 + 10/70.

That latter result, 3 + 10/70, reduces to 22/7, the famous approximation to ? that all students still learn today and that some unfortunately mistake for ? itself.

To calculate 'the' fine structure constant, 1/137, we would need a realistic model of just about everything, and this we do not have. In this talk I want to return to the old question of what it is that determines gauge couplings in general, and try to prepare the ground for a future realistic calculation.

who wishes to fight must first count the cost

There's a presumption that somehow you calculate beforehand whether something is going to be good politically or not. I simply don't.

I recently read that it's the left brain that does all that calculating, and the right brain that does the poetry. Somehow I've veered way towards the left. I've been doing it for years. Maybe I do art to balance it out.

I know I'm capable of being outrageous, but I don't do it all the time; at home I'm quiet and boring, preferring to subside into a book or into the computer. I do not have a public persona. I don't assume sweetness for the camera; I'm the same person no matter where I go or what company I'm in. But, like everyone else, I judge which facet of my personality will suit a particular situation and present it. To that extent, I am calculating - but never to conceal, only to reveal.

we will not win the battle for a stable climate by trying to beat the bean counters at their own game—arguing, for instance, that it is more cost-effective to invest in emission reduction now than disaster response later. We will win by asserting that such calculations are morally monstrous, since they imply that there is an acceptable price for allowing entire countries to disappear, for leaving untold millions to die on parched land

All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation.

Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic.

When I think about doing something, I think: Will I survive a million out of a million times?

If you talk to a top accountant about his field of expertise, it's mind-boggling.

He was moderately truthful towards men, but to women lied like a Cretan-a system of ethics above all others calculated to win popularity at the first flush of admission into lively society.

Bien que le discours puisse agir d'une manière plus vivante et plus immédiate, la parole écrite n'en a pas moins cet avantage de pouvoir être méditée et formulée à loisir et à tête reposée, de rester immuable et de pouvoir être relue à volonté dans les termes et dans l'ordre que le signataire a soigneusement pesés et calculés, et partant, de conserver toujours la même efficacité

It was like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see the mistake you've made, and there's this panic because you don't know yet the scale of disaster you've left yourself open to.

It's not a calculation. It's a smart woman's instinct for self defense.