Quotes About Calculation

In each situation, there's a calculation to make, a subjective litmus test we use to assess the value of the disclosure: Is this information helpful for the patient to have?

Death is the surest calculation that can be made.

every type of socialism is unworkable because economic calculation is impossible in a socialist community.

Where the currency depreciation is a result of government inflation carried out by the issue of notes, it is possible to avert its disastrous effect on economic calculation by conducting all bookkeeping in a stable money instead. But so far as the depreciation is a depreciation of gold, the world money, there is no such easy way out.

The great enemy of grace is the strict accounting of our sin and corruption that when added up totals such a staggering debt that no person without faith in the sure promises of God would ever dare calculate that anything good awaits him and would further be convinced that all that does lie ahead is a complete foreclosure of his soul and all its contents. Pliable

I just did some calculations and I've been able to determine that you're full of sh...

It's tens of millions of calculations just to design one connection between a piece of structural steel and another piece of structural steel.

Chess is infinite, and one has to make only one ill-considered move, and one's opponent's wildest dreams will become reality.

I was x years old in the year x2.

furniture designers, incredibly, are not taught during their formal training how to calculate the deflection in an ordinary bookshelf when it is loaded with books,

The price of war goes on, too. Histories tend to calculate that in terms of money and casualties during the war, not in terms of what it does to those who fight and experience the wars.

one hundred miles. Ryan: And having made that estimate, did you take into consideration a submarine on the surface at night proceeding on an opposite course from that steered

And I thought of the Transit of Venus: that though the bodies be vast and distant, and their motions occult, their hesitations retrograde, one could, I thought, with exceeding care and preparation, observe, and in their distance, know them, triangulate to arrive at the ambits of their motivation; and that in this calculation alone, one might banish uncertainty, and know at last what constituted other bodies, and how small the gulf that lies between us all.

and like most people who have spent much of their adult life being emotionally dishonest, I overcalculated the sympathy a final being honest would bring

A man shrewd enough and clever enough to amass such a fortune in ten years does not throw together

You oughta carry a calculator," Emma told him, "or at least write everything down.

The prudent leader "dreads and reflects on everything that can happen to him but is bold when he is in the thick of action." Xerxes listens patiently, but objects that "if you were to take account of everything . . . , you would never do anything. It is better to have a brave heart and endure one half of the terrors we dread than to [calculate] all of the terrors and suffer nothing at all. . . . Big things are won by big dangers.

Like Americans, people outside America want fun, want an emotional compensation for the utilitarianism and calculation that mark the rest of their lives.

The only way you can estimate environmental influences is by measuring them.

I have no faith in political arithmetic.

One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.

A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction.

They both knew what they were thinking, though neither said it: Taryn Grant had what it took to be president. She had the business background, she understood economics and finance, she had the money wrapped up, she looked terrific, she had a mind that understood the necessary treacheries: a silken Machiavelli.

Green shook her head: "She's a smart woman. I'd be surprised if she was involved. But . . . and I say but . . . she's obviously a sociopath. It wouldn't bother her that people died to get her into the Senate. It would bother her that she could go to prison for it. She's made that calculation, too. That's why she gets so angry when she sees you.