Computed Quotes

#1. For seven and a half million years, Deep Thought computed and calculated, and in the end announced that the answer was in fact 42- and so another, even bigger, computer had to be built to find out what the actual question was.

Douglas Adams

#2. You have in the U.S. around two million new diagnoses of cancer a year, and 13 million survivors, so you have about 10,000 patients that require analysis every day. That's about five petabytes that need to be transmitted and computed on a daily basis.

Patrick Soon-Shiong

#3. All of [motherhood] surprised me. It surprised me from the very first second I saw Jack. I'd believed that my pregnancy was a condition. It never computed. And there he was. Everyone made fun of me because I stared at him for months and months, not being able to believe he was real.

Meg Ryan

#4. Daybreak. Pope Pius II watches a fiery orb crest the Tiber. His mind drifts. He recalls that Aristotle's student Callippus once computed the seasons' duration, measuring the sun's movement within its ethereal sphere.

David Beckett

#5. To the wisest man, wide as is his vision. Nature remains of quite infinite depth, of quite infinite expansion and all experience thereof limits itself to some few computed centuries and measured square miles.

Thomas Carlyle

#6. As years pass, and the abundance of the future is depleted, the crux of old mistakes and the cost of old choices are ever recalibrated. Resentment, the interest in umbrage derived from being wronged, is computed minute by minute, savagely, however you try to ignore it.

Gregory Maguire

#7. It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break eggs at the smaller end.

Ray Bradbury

#8. But one half the children born, it is computed, die before the age of manhood.

Adam Smith

#9. The Timeline of a Life being Long or Short, is Computed on the Benchmark of How You Live It ...

Saurabh Dudeja

#10. That divided and rebel mind, that distrust of a sentiment because our arithmetic has computed the strength and means opposed to our purpose, these [158] have not. Their mind being whole, their eye is as yet unconquered, and when we look in their faces we are disconcerted.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#11. All things bright and beautiful,
All creatures great and small,
All things wise and wonderful,
The Lord God made them all.

John Piper

#12. Every journey we take begins with baby steps, baby talk and it helps us to grow healthy and strong towards our different fields we are embarking on.

Euginia Herlihy

#13. When you are free of form and not confused, you are focused. To be free of form externally is 'Zen.' Not to be confused internally is 'meditation.' External Zen and internal meditation, this is what we mean by 'Zen meditation.

Bill Porter

#14. Oh, come off it," said Ron, striding over to her and whipping her results out of her hand. "Yep - ten 'Outstandings' and one 'Exceeds Expectations' at Defense Against the Dark Arts." He looked down at her, half-amused, half-exasperated. "You're actually disappointed, aren't you?

J.K. Rowling

#15. I don't play nostalgia acts. I don't play nostalgia shows.

David Cassidy

#16. In fact ants, to cite just one example, work unselfishly for the community; we humans sometimes do not look good by comparison. We are supposed to be higher beings, so we must act according to our higher selves.

Dalai Lama XIV

#17. Roberta Marieschi

Donna Leon