Quotes About Calculation

Behind every calculation, every decision, every signal, every turn of the helm, was the deeply held conviction that the disaster of defeat must always be greater than the rewards of victory. The belief that governed all the tactical moves at this one confused melee was that the individual Dreadnought, the squadron, the fleet must be preserved, even at the cost of victory over the foe.

Ethics is not a geometrical calculation; others are never very far from us; they and we are co-constituted and entangled through the very cuts we help to enact. Cuts cut things together and apart. Cuts are not enacted from the outside, nor are they ever enacted once and for all.

There was no part of this house that felt inviting. Paul's cold, calculating hand could be seen behind every choice. The concrete on the entryway floor was polished to a dark mirror straight out of Snow White. The spiral stairs looked like a robot's asshole. The endless white walls made Lydia feel like she was trapped inside a straightjacket. The sooner she was out of here the better.

things. You just needed math.

It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervour, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of Philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation. It has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of numberless indefeasible chartered freedoms, it has set up that single, unconscionable freedom -- free trade. In one word, for exploitation, veiled by religious and political illusions, it has substituted naked, shameless, direct, brutal exploitation.

It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervor, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation.

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

I meet a man with a thousand dollars and leave him with two; that's the meaning of subtraction.

The consideration of human suffering is not one which enters into the calculations of primitive man.

You know the rule of 72, divide the number into 72, any number you want, and that's how long it will take your money to double.

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

Math and music are intimately related. Not necessarily on a conscious level, but sure.

You only get one sunrise and one sunset a day, and you only get so many days on the planet. A good photographer does the math and doesn't waste either.

If human nature felt no temptation to take a chance there might not be much investment merely as a result of cold calculation.

We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.

Sometimes an impulse is more rewarding than a calculation.

You have no idea, how much poetry there is in the calculation of a table of logarithms!

From early on, everything I did was calculated to being elected to Congress.

Hillary Clinton follows a cardinal rule in politics - don't commit to a decision before you have to.

Only in the world of mathematics do two negatives multiply into a positive.

A thousand minus one is never a thousand

Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge.

In every field of human endeavor, whether it is flying, medicine, or armed combat, this reflexive/reflective split cleaves the world into amateurs and professionals, the former driven by their emotions, the latter by calculation and logic.

Always favor expected returns calculated from the Gordon Equation over past returns, no matter how long of a period they cover.