Quotes About Calculation

They sat in silence for a minute, then Dannon said, "What do you want me to do?" "Think about it," she said. "You're smart. And I'll think about it overnight. We'll talk tomorrow morning. It's all a balancing of the various risks, and the various goals. It's like a calculus problem: and there is an answer.

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First, inevitably, the idea, the fantasy, the fairy tale. Then, scientific calculation. Ultimately, fulfillment crowns the dream.

Fear was stronger than the calculation of probabilities.

When things don't add up, either you don't have a calculator or you forgot to use commonsense by simply asking.

What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?

The only guide to man is his conscience; the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations; but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.

je m'en croyais la possession entièrement assurée, que j'avais négligé d'en calculer la valeur, ce qui faisait qu'il me paraissait forcément inférieur à des plaisirs, si petits qu'ils fussent, mais que, cherchant à les imaginer, j'évaluais.

averaging the bids to arrive at a final price, the Leon

Something boring, so no one asks follow-up questions about it." "Accounting?

la voluntad de Dios nunca hace sus sumas a base de los cálculos humanos.

When the state is given absolute power, in this case to calculate and terminate the end of a human life, the state assumes a power that is "absolute," extending its domination to the borders of life and death. According to Meeropol, when people give that power to the state, they sacrifice their popular sovereignty. Executions function not to serve the people but as another mode of rule in today's theatrics of state terror. I

There is risk, known and unknown, in all aspects of life. We often consider the loss of life the only serious risk. Unless we are genuinely aware, we calculate the danger arising from our own physical and emotional states and from external conditions based on incomplete information. If we believe we can manage those risks, we accept them. Whether these choices are born of delusion or reality comes out in the end.

Thus, in moments of catastrophe, when hard decisions needed to be made quickly, all AIs included in their calculations a human death toll governed by a factor called 'pigheadedness'.

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

One might as well attempt to calculate mathematically the contingent forms of the tinkling bits of glass in a kaleidoscope as to look through the tube of the future and foretell its pattern.

Grand strategy is the art of looking beyond the present battle and calculating ahead. Focus on your ultimate goal and plot to reach it.

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

Women have a passion for mathematics. They divide their age in half, double the price of their clothes, and always add at least five years to the age of their best friend.

Does Batman ever NOT have a plan...?

People with a plan see and wait for the right time.

Sociopathy is the inability to process emotional experience, including love and caring, except when such experience can be calculated as a coldly intellectual task.

The expected value of something is not a good guide to its price.

But orbital mechanics waits for no man,