Top 53 Calculator Quotes
#1. From the time I was 7, when I purchased my first calculator, I was fascinated by the idea of a machine that could compute things.
Michael Dell
#2. A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator.
Paul Valery
#4. Information Theory would inform a mechanical calculator in much the same way as, say, fluid dynamics would inform the hull of a ship.
Neal Stephenson
#5. Hand over the calculator, friends don't let friends derive drunk.
Various
#6. I've always said to myself that if a little pocket calculator can do it why shouldn't I?
Roald Dahl
#7. What's Julie's number?"
Curran glanced at me.
"Julie's fluctuating between thirty-two and thirty-four units. Her shift coefficient is six point five and she's been at it for sixteen hours."
Dear God, I'd need a damn calculator.
Ilona Andrews
#8. One does not learn computing by using a hand calculator, but one can forget arithmetic. Perlis 1982
Alan J. Perlis
#9. Speaking of human computers, there is a guy named Art Benjamin, he's a human calculator. He says it's a skill he learned as a kid. Now he's a math professor at Harvey Mudd. He can find the square root of a six digit number in a few seconds. Practice.
Bill Nye
#10. First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII - and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we've realized it's a brochure.
Douglas Adams
#11. I use minimal software to make my music - a wav editor and a calculator for my beats to make sure everything falls on mathematical precision. If you were just mapping this out visually, it works by math. I guess it's slightly engineering influenced.
Girl Talk
#12. A five-week sand blizzard?" said Deep Thought haughtily. "You ask this of me who have contemplated the very vectors of the atoms in the Big Bang itself? Molest me not with this pocket calculator stuff.
Douglas Adams
#13. When things don't add up, either you don't have a calculator or you forgot to use commonsense by simply asking.
Shannon L. Alder
#14. I can't read a computer screen and never use a calculator. It's all in my head and by hand.
Simon Reuben
#15. I am so old, I entered engineering school with a slide rule. And I left engineering school with a calculator. I can still use a slide rule but it's not a skill you especially need anymore.
Bill Nye
#16. A good calculator does not need artificial aids.
Laozi
#17. I love math and was a math teacher for many years, so it was fun for me to write several math books, including 'Fraction Fun,' 'Calculator Riddles,' and 'Shape Up!' 'Fun with Triangles and Other Polygons.'
David A. Adler
#18. Kate studied the clipboard and the pocket calculator on the floor.
"Did you figure out how to work that thing?"
"You don't have to be a CPA to use a calculator."
"I meant the clipboard."
"Ha ha.
Nora Roberts
#19. Bill Frindall has done a bit of mental arithmetic with a calculator
John Arlott
#20. Ava, when a man gets a calculator out at the end of a meal to work out what you owe. It's usually not a good sign.
Jodi Ellen Malpas
#21. Before you open the lunch menu or order that cheeseburger or consider eating the cake with the frosting intact, haul out the psychic calculator and start tinkering with the budget.
Caroline Knapp
#22. We don't design by calculator or by demographics or anything like that. We really are a group of creative, sensitive people. We have our charmed little world where we get to make things. We're really lucky.
Marc Jacobs
#23. Saying you don't need a librarian because you have the internet is like saying you don't need a math teacher because you have a calculator.
Unknown
#24. People challenge my nerd cred all the time. I just show them the photo of me winning my middle-school science fair, wearing my Casio calculator watch and eyeglasses so big they look like they can see the future.
Aisha Tyler
#25. I guess personally I really like "Take on Me" by Aha. I think it just defines the 80s and how insane it was and like neon and like calculator watches and that whole thing.
Evan Peters
#26. See, there's the pie chart. If you look, you can see clear as day that the happy times -- the times when you think "How fun! I'm glad I'm alive" -- don't make up even one tenth of life. I'm work this out properly with a calculator, so there's no mistake.
Tatsuhiko Takimoto
#27. He also had a device that looked rather like a largish electronic calculator. This had about a hundred tiny flat press buttons and a screen about four inches square on which any one of a million "pages" could be summoned at a moment's notice.
Douglas Adams
#28. There's like ten minutes when it's like, 'Okay, wait, who is this guy again?' And then, you know, I just put on the calculator watch and the glasses, and just be all, you know, inappropriate. And then it just works out fine.
Rainn Wilson
#29. People think that the arts are optional and they aren't. They teach a level of emotional depth that's equally important to mathematic skill. You can replace some math skills with a calculator if you know how to operate the thing, but there's no calculator for human interaction.
Hal Sparks
#30. Yet we can be sure that whatever fictions exist in Wall Street bookkeeping, the earth is a faithful scribe, a faultless calculator, a superb bookkeeper; we will be held responsible for every bit of our economic folly.
Thomas Berry
#31. Get the paper quick, maybe it's there ... I read the paper with my eyes (that's not mistake: My eyes are like a pen now, or a calculator, something you hold in your hands, something you feel is not you- a tool).
Yevgeny Zamyatin
#32. If it's the thought that counts, then ignorance must use a calculator
Josh Stern
#33. One who scorns the power of intuition will never rise above the ranks of journeyman calculator.
Albert Einstein
#34. Do I get any kind of training?"
"Do you know how to use a basic calculator?"
I roll my eyes "Yes."
"Consider yourself trained.
Colleen Hoover
#35. Harriet van Horne He makes love to me expertly, mechanically, coldly ... He's pressing all my buttons, as if I were a pocket calculator.
Erica Jong
#36. One corner was filled by an elderly flat-top desk; the papers on it were neatly in order. Near it, on its own stand, was a small electric calculator.
Robert A. Heinlein
#37. The calculation of ignorance is too great for any calculator, only someone who has experienced bliss and genuine ignorance can determine valid or not, not those whom of which scrutinize it
Aaron Ozee
#38. Joining the Liberal Party was a no-brainer for me ... And when you are a young man, you don't get a calculator out saying, 'Am I going to get to power?' You get propelled forward by idealism.
Nick Clegg
#39. I get verklempt if I see a vintage TI-30 or TI-54 calculator. But I don't think I'd want to use one.
Douglas Coupland
#40. Scorecards are common in the political process, but they are inappropriate in the judicial process. The most important tools in the judicial confirmation process are not litmus paper and a calculator.
Orrin Hatch
#41. Value investing is at its core the marriage of a contrarian streak and a calculator.
Seth Klarman
#42. If you want to improve your self-worth, stop giving other people the calculator.
Tim Fargo
#43. I accidentally brought my graphing calculator camping.
Ian Anderson
#44. But, I added, duBois had found no evidence of any malfeasance. She'd spoken to dozens of officers and administrators within the department, armed with her pen and calculator. What Westerfield and Teasley had found, the money shifting from one account to another, seemed to duBois to be innocent.
Jeffery Deaver
#45. A solid 70 percent of houses guessed that I was dressed as a fancy pimp. Whatever - I still got candy. Molly went as a calculator. So, anyway, that was the Halloween I dressed as A Source of Concern to My Family.
Dave Holmes
#46. I'm always crunching numbers, so my calculator watch is a must.
David Neeleman
#47. Fighting emotion with logic is like bringing a calculator to a knife fight
Josh Sundquist
#48. I can count all the lovers I've had on one hand ... if I'm holding a calculator.
Sebastian Horsley
#49. A good counter needs no calculator.
Laozi
#50. Nanny Piggins lost the Vegetable Peeling, Gutter Cleaning, and Long Division Explaining tests as well. She got caught telling Michael, 'Don't bother to learn that. Long division is a waste of brain space, when you can just buy a calculator.' Which is only the truth.
R.A. Spratt
#51. I sold my most valuable possession, but I knew that because I worked at Hewlett Packard, I could buy the next model calculator the very next month for a lower price than I sold the older one for!
Steve Wozniak
#52. Sundance Supply has a neat material calculator and free greenhouse designs-Great Prices!
Shane Smith
#53. It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labour of calculation which could safely be relegated to anyone else if machines were used.
(Describing, in 1685, the value to astronomers of the hand-cranked calculating machine he had invented in 1673.)
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
