Numbers Quotes - page 2

There are millions of chords. There are millions of numbers. And everyone forgets the one that is a zero. But without the zero, numbers are just arithmetic. Without the empty chord, music is just noise. (Terry Pratchett)
Social conditions that spur large numbers of people into action are ignored in favor of a Hollywood version of history focusing on one conquering hero. Since a movement for social change is embodied in its leader, death of the leader means death of the movement. View quote
Patricia Hill Collins
Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights. View quote
Thomas Sowell
To sum up: numbers appear to represent both an attribute of matter and the unconscious foundation of our mental process. For this reason, number forms, according to Jung, that particular element that unites the realms of matter and psyche. It is "real” in a double sense, as an archetypal image and as a qualitative manifestation in the realm of outer-world experience. View quote
Marie-Louise von Franz
In any race between human numbers and natural resources, time is against us. View quote
Aldous Huxley
A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers. View quote
Plato
Large-scale public projects require the agreement of large numbers of people. View quote
Thom Mayne
If you're a good numbers person, you're a bad language person. View quote
Frank Luntz
If you look closely, there is no book more visual than Three Trapped Tigers, in that it is filled with blank pages, dark pages, it has stars made of words, the famous magical cube made of numbers, and there is even a page which is a mirror. View quote
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
All they need to do is to set up some website somewhere selling some bogus product at twenty percent of the normal market prices and people are going to be tricked into providing their credit card numbers. View quote
Kevin Mitnick
We will have more Internet, larger numbers of users, more mobile access, more speed, more things online and more appliances we can control over the Internet. (Vint Cerf)
Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity. View quote
Ellen Glasgow
I'm always crunching numbers, so my calculator watch is a must. View quote
David Neeleman
One, I have a wonderful publisher, Black Sparrow Press; as long as they exist, they will keep me in print. And they claim they sell very respectable numbers of my books, so I guess, and it's true, every place I go, my books are in libraries and on bookshelves. View quote
Diane Wakoski
Torture numbers, and they'll confess to anything. View quote
Gregg Easterbrook
There is always strength in numbers. The more individuals or organizations that you can rally to your cause, the better. View quote
Mark Shields
Individual liberty is individual power, and as the power of a community is a mass compounded of individual powers, the nation which enjoys the most freedom must necessarily be in proportion to its numbers the most powerful nation. View quote
John Quincy Adams
The term "just war" contains an internal contradiction. War is inherently unjust, and the great challenge of our time is how to deal with evil, tyranny, and oppression without killing huge numbers of people. View quote
Howard Zinn
Okay, look at it this way: if the evening news has a very high probability of being accurate, then it's highly improbable that they would inaccurately report the numbers chosen in the lottery. That counterbalances any improbability in the choosing of those numbers, so you're quite rational to believe in this highly improbable event. View quote
William Lane Craig
Baseball people, and that includes myself, are slow to change and accept new ideas. I remember that it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms. View quote
Branch Rickey
My algebra was relatively poor. I found it very difficult to use equations that substituted numbers - to which I had a synesthetic and emotional response - for letters, to which I had none. It was because of this that I decided not to continue math at Advanced level, but chose to study history, French and German instead. (Daniel Tammet)
You don't have to be a mathematician to have a feel for numbers. View quote
John Forbes Nash
We are being colonised without New Zealanders having some say in the numbers of people coming in and where they are coming from. This is a deliberate policy of ethnic engineering and re-population. View quote
Winston Peters
Bourgeois society is ruled by equivalence. It makes the dissimilar comparable by reducing it to abstract quantities. To the enlightenment, that which does not reduce to numbers, and ultimately to the one, becomes illusion. View quote
Theodor Adorno
Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow