Numbers Quotes

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable, procures success to the weak, and esteem to all. (George Washington)
Round numbers are always false. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Mathematicians have tried in vain to this day to discover some order in the sequence of prime numbers, and we have reason to believe that it is a mystery into which the human mind will never penetrate. View quote
Leonhard Euler
There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else. View quote
James Thurber
Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die. View quote
Gore Vidal
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. View quote
Voltaire
Strategic planning is not strategic thinking. Indeed, strategic planning often spoils strategic thinking, causing managers to confuse real vision with the manipulation of numbers. View quote
Henry Mintzberg
The game has a cleanness. If you do a good job, the numbers say so. You don't have to ask anyone or play politics. You don't have to wait for the reviews. View quote
Sandy Koufax
A few honest men are better than numbers. View quote
Oliver Cromwell
The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers. View quote
Bill Gates
I realise that in this undertaking I place myself in a certain opposition to views widely held concerning the mathematical infinite and to opinions frequently defended on the nature of numbers. (Georg Cantor)
The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers. View quote
Richard Hamming
I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spend all your time thinking about them. View quote
Mark Haddon
And yet I would not freely exchange my science for those of my fellow laureates. They are forever confined in their professional discussions to the small numbers of their fellow scientists. View quote
George Stigler
Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to. View quote
Alain de Botton
God may not play dice with the universe, but something strange is going on with the prime numbers. View quote
Paul Erdős
I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done. View quote
Steven Wright
You don't have to worry about being a number one, number two, or number three. Numbers don't have anything to do with placement. Numbers only have something to do with repetition. View quote
Ornette Coleman
When I read obituaries I always note the age of the deceased. Automatically I relate this figure to my own age. Four years to go, I think. Nine more years. Two years and I'm dead. The power of numbers is never more evident than when we use them to speculate on the time of our dying. View quote
Don DeLillo
we often observe that there is abundance of capital to be had at low rates of interest, while there are also large numbers of artisans starving for want of employment. View quote
William Stanley Jevons
my friends don't seem to be friends at all but people whose phone numbers I haven't lost. (Nick Hornby)
What TV is extremely good at - and realize that this is "all it does" - is discerning what large numbers of people think they want, and supplying it. View quote
David Foster Wallace
The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers. View quote
William Lloyd Garrison
There are 1011 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers. View quote
Richard Feynman
The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers. View quote
Scott Adams