Quotes About Calculation

from a hundred to a hundred and fifty kilometers, depending on how fat you were and whether

Well, it's all math," he says. "If the math works, why then you should be sure of yourself. That's the whole point of math.

war is not so to be avoided, but is only deferred to your disadvantage

As injúrias devem ser cometidas de uma vez só, de modo que, por sua brevidade, ofendam menos ao paladar; ao passo que os benefícios devem ser feitos aos poucos, para que sejam mais bem saboreados.

Perché le iniurie si debbono fare tutte insieme, acciò che, assaporandosi meno, offendino meno: e' benefizii si debbono fare a poco a poco, acciò che si assaporino meglio.

Nè creda mai alcuno Stato poter pigliare partiti sicuri; anzi pensi d'avere a prenderli tutti dubbi; perchè si trova questo nell'ordine delle cose, che mai si cerca fuggire uno inconveniente, che non s'incorra in un altro: ma la prudenza consiste in saper cognoscere la qualità degli inconvenienti, e prendere il manco tristo per buono.

In the beginning, we might have been focused on totally just music and being famous, just wanting to have fame and make hot music, but as we got older, we had to understand that this is a business and that our moves need to be calculated.

I've never been one to carefully calculate my career decisions, to sit on the outside looking in. I go with my passion and what moves me.

The maximum of confusion achieved with the maximum of order: it seems a sublime calculation.

and I saw that it is one thing for a crowd, in an almost ecstatic frenzy, mistaking the laws of the devil for those of the Lord, to commit a massacre, but it is another thing for an individual to commit a crime in cold blood, with calculation, in silence.

The ways of the Antichrist are slow and tortuous. He arrives when we do not expect him: not because the calculation suggested by the apostle was mistaken, but because we have not learned the art.

When the man was totting up the fare, all the de luxe supplements, he worked the sum out twenty times on the adding machine. The same sum, twenty times. Why? Did he think the machine was going to change its mind?

moral calculus isn't reducible to actual calculus

You can tell all that about me from your measuring tape?' 'Well, I use the metric system, It's the only way to get really exact numbers.

Because these calculations generate precise numbers for an uncertain risk, they produce an illusory certainty.

Cold calculation, random spots of color, mathematically exact construction (clearly shown or concealed), drawing that is now silent and now strident.... Is this not form?"

the burden of the thinking man is to calculate the probable good against the possible bad and to decide whether the change will be worth the risk.

In short, the magnifying influence of fear began to set at naught the calculations of reason, and to render those who should have remembered their manhood, the slaves of the basest passions.

Failure is central to engineering. Every single calculation that an engineer makes is a failure calculation. Successful engineering is all about understanding how things break or fail.

What goes on inside a star is better understood than one might guess from the difficulty of having to look at a little dot of light through a telescope, because we can calculate what the atoms in the stars should do in most circumstances.

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.

Adam and Eve are like imaginary numbers, like the square root of minus one... If you include it in your equation, you can calculate all manners of things, which cannot be imagined without it.

Any call that jeopardizes a big chunk of your chip stack just because you think your opponent might be on a bluff is flat-out wrong.

No man can exactly calculate the capacity of human genius and stupidity, nor the incapacity of will.