Quotes About Calculation

She just went on eating her apple, shaking her head, and looking us over with that calculating, almost contemptuous, look she has at certain times." "Oh, I know! I know!" said Christine. "I've seen that look so many times!

If the line is 50 ft long and it takes 10 seconds to tow it, your boat speed is 0.6 times 50 divided by 10, or 3.0 kts.

money's capacity to turn morality into a matter of impersonal arithmetic—and by doing so, to justify things that would otherwise seem outrageous or obscene. The

Rather than seeing himself as human because he could make economic calculations, the hunter insisted that being truly human meant refusing to make such calculations, refusing to measure or remember who had given what to whom, for the precise reason that doing so would inevitably create a world where we began "comparing power with power, measuring, calculating" and reducing each other to slaves or dogs through debt.

It hung heavily albeit secretly over the internal calculation of Democratic leaders of the period. But of course it was never discussed in the major newspapers and magazine articles that analyzed policy making in Vietnam. It was a secret subject, reflecting secret fears.

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

All our fret and worry is caused by calculating without God.

Proper accounting is like engineering. You need a margin of safety. Thank God we don't design bridges and airplanes the way we do accounting.

We must calculate not on the weather, nor on fortune, but upon God and ourselves. He may fail us in the gratification of our wishes, but never in the encounter with our exigencies.

My God, how badly one calculates in this world! ... Let us leave off calculating on anything but death -- it is the only certainty.

What economic calculation requires is a monetary system whose functioning is not sabotaged by government interference.

Emptiness is everywhere and it can be calculated, which gives us a great opportunity. I know how to control the universe. So tell me, why should I run for a million?

I have an abacus at home.

A French player, Sylvain Marconnet, broke his tibia skiing in 2007 and missed his home World Cup. For me the risk of breaking something versus the reward was never worth it.

Now I'm not an expert at mathematics, but I calculated it would take at least three of me to take on one third of one of them, even if they were attacking me with just their arse.

If you plug in a number and the math starts getting creepy (anything involving fractions or negative numbers is creepy)...

That mysterious independent variable of political calculation, Public Opinion.

How impatience men are! All Jack has to do to get everything he wants is to keep quiet and let that girl marry him; whereas I have to calculate and contrive, and retreat and advance, as if I were going through an intricate dance where one misstep would throw me hopelessly out of time.

The plunder of the few would, indeed, give but a share inconceivably small in the distribution to the many. But the many are not capable of making this calculation; and those who lead them to rapine never intend this distribution.

La Sociedad Científicos Sentimentales era una locura. Pero tal vez hace falta un poco de locura entre tanta exactitud y precisión. Serán buenos los cálculos y los teoremas inexpugnables, si es que se aplican a rombos, ángulos y cubos. Pero empiezan a fallar cuando se trata de personas.

Chess is not only knowledge and logic.

Rounding to the nearest cent is sufficiently accurate for practical purposes.

football clubs could, at times, be heartless and calculating and weren't to be relied on, unless you wanted your heart broken.

At Mint, we developed five pending patents on our technology, ranging from categorization to the Ways to Save system that calculates how much a new financial product would save a user given their present financial situation.