Quotes About Calculation

a man of method. He might bring intelligence, talent, a careful calculation of detail to the task;

The book that simply demands to be read, for no good reason, is asking us to change our lives by putting aside what we usually think of as good reasons. It's asking us to stop calculating. It's asking us to do something for the plain old delight and interest of it, not because we can justify its place on the mental spreadsheet or accounting ledger (like the one Benjamin Franklin kept) by which we tote up the value of our actions.

Most of the tasks we do are for humans. For example, a tax calculation is counting numbers so the government can pull money out from my wallet, but government consists of humans.

You could argue that war is always an irrational act, and yet many states enter into military conflict out of rational calculation or national interest or the stability or longevity of their regime.

In respect of military method, we have, firstly, Measurement; secondly, Estimation of quantity; thirdly, Calculation; fourthly, Balancing of chances; fifthly, Victory.

No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also.

Charles Bascomb was a man who loved figures—the genuine, Arabic kind, that is.

I don't think it says anywhere in the Bible that tithing should be calculated on a before-tax basis.

The assumption that people sometimes make is that I have made a cold, calculated decision to put my career ahead of having family, and that's not true.

But I wanted marriage for myself. I was not calculating about it. I wish I was more calculating.

The minute you start calculating and trying to figure out what a huge audience is going to think, you're going to fail.

It was boxing, but I also feel it was my drive and ambition that kept me away from the stupidness, and my calculation.

People can make any political calculation they want. I make decisions what I think is in the best interest.

If I were to run for Senate, my calculation is, what kind of an impact am I going to have were I to win?

I never wanted to be an actress. Acting wasn't in my mind. It wasn't in my calculations.

I could think six shots ahead. It's no different to playing chess.

My own day-to-day observations confirm that many Americans can barely make change. At the supermarket where I buy groceries, I've watched more than one encounter at the cash register where both customer and clerk are befuddled at the prospect of double-checking the sums.

Don't be a hero, young man. There's no percentage in it.

How do you calculate upon the unforeseen? It seems to be an art of recognizing the role of the unforeseen, of keeping your balance amid surprises, of collaborating with chance, of recognizing that there are some essential mysteries in the world and thereby a limit to calculation, to plan, to control.

A city is built to resemble a conscious mind, a network that can calculate, administrate, manufacture. Ruins become the unconscious of a city, it's memory, unknown, darkness, lost lands, and in this truly bring it to life

But religious faith is an especially potent silencer of rational calculation, which usually seems to trump all others. This is mostly, I suspect, because of the easy and beguiling promise that death is not the end, and that a martyr's heaven is especially glorious. But it is also partly because it discourages questioning, by its very nature.

Yet the mathematical calculations that would be necessary to explain the principles of vision are just as complex and difficult, and nobody has ever had any difficulty in believing

We are liberated by calculation and reason to visit regions of possibility that had once seemed out of bound or inhabited by dragons.

The longer they stayed on, and the better they knew each other, the better she at least could see their mistake, and the more misguided their lives became—like a long proof in mathematics in which the first calculation is wrong, following which all other calculations move you further away from how things were when they made sense.