Decimal Quotes

#1. Proving nothing," said Ford. "I wouldn't trust that computer to speak my weight."
"I can do that for you, sure," enthused the computer, punching out more ticker tape. "I can even work out your personality problems to ten decimal places if it will help.

Douglas Adams

#2. He wished he was with his mom in her library, where everything was safe and numbered and organized by the Dewey decimal system. Ben wished the world was organized by the Dewey decimal system. That way you'd be able to find whatever you were looking for, like the meaning of your dream, or your dad.

Brian Selznick

#3. Though my love for you is infinitesimal, your eyes are as dewey as any old decimal.

Elizabeth McCracken

#4. All we know about the world teaches us that the effects of A and B are always different-in some decimal place-for any A and B. Thus asking "are the effects different?" is foolish.

John Tukey

#5. Black folks are judged by quantity, not quality. It's a decimal point or figure. How different is that from slavery? There's no moral code, it's just about successful business for America.

Chuck D

#6. It seemed as though the main framework had been put together once and for all, and that little remained to be done but to measure physical constants to the increased accuracy represented by another decimal point.

William Cecil Dampier

#7. We have lost our humanity to the decimal point.

Bryant McGill

#8. The dark energy is not exactly zero, but the first 122 decimal points are zero. That's crazy. That is really one of the craziest things we've ever discovered.

Leonard Susskind

#9. Counting in octal is just like counting in decimal, if you don't use your .

Tom Lehrer

#10. Right now I don't have patience to deal with people who IQ lands on the right side of the decimal point.

Suzanne Wrightt

#11. Whenever I see a forecast written out to two decimal places, I cannot help but wonder if there is a misunderstanding of the limitations of the data, and an illusion of precision.

Barry Ritholtz

#12. The Dewey decimal system really works. So that's all I needed to know. Elementary school taught me that.

Michelle Rodriguez

#13. It's hard to say where is the bigger hubris, in their convictions or in the arrogance of carrying them to a third decimal point

Mary Roach

#14. But the player librarians all over the country were raving about most was Marjory Muldauer from Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. A gangly seventh grader, a foot taller than any of her competitors, Marjory Muldauer had memorized the ten categories of the Dewey decimal system before she entered preschool.

Chris Grabenstein

#15. I recited Pi to 22,514 decimal points in five hours and nine minutes. I was able to do this because of weeks of study, aided by the unusual synaesthesic way my mind perceives numbers as complex multidimensional coloured and textured shapes.

Daniel Tammet

#16. Counting in octal is just likst counting in decimal
if you don't use your thumbs.

Tom Lehrer

#17. It is a misfortune for a science to be born too late when the means of observation have become too perfect. That is what is happening at this moment with respect to physical chemistry; the founders are hampered in their general grasp by third and fourth decimal places.

Henri Poincare

#18. I knew chemistry would be worse, because I'd seen a big card of the ninety-odd elements hung up in the chemistry lab, and all the perfectly good words like gold and silver and cobalt and aluminum were shortened to ugly abbreviations with different decimal numbers after them.

Sylvia Plath

#19. Why learn a number like pi to so many decimal places? The answer I gave then as I do now is that pi is for me an extremely beautiful and utterly unique thing. Like the Mona Lisa or a Mozart symphony, pi is its own reason for loving it.

Daniel Tammet

#20. All that is born and destroyed is reborn in the sweep of the ages; Life like a decimal ever recurring repeats the old figure.

Sri Aurobindo

#21. I was falling hard for Laura. I was not much of a cat person, but I knew our relationship was solid when I bonded with her black-and-white shorthair, Dewey, named for the decimal system.

George W. Bush

#22. The chances of achieving literary performance are, to the decimal point, the odds against becoming fully human.
That means one hundred and fifty million to one.
Which means one hundred and fifty million in one.

Allan Gurganus

#23. My worth depended on where exactly the decimal was placed among the zeroes.

Augusten Burroughs

#24. I'm sure the Bursar would not agree with those figures," said the Senior Wrangler sourly.
"That is so,' said Ponder, "but I'm afraid that is because he regards the decimal point as a nuisance.

Terry Pratchett

#25. I believe that economists put decimal points in their forecasts to show they have a sense of humor.

William Gilmore Simms

#26. The standard model gives us an accuracy of ten decimal digits, this is an amazing success that has never been achieved before in science.

Nathan Seiberg

#27. I always say when you see that old black-and-white footage of the rocket on the launch pad and it falls over and explodes, that's because people had slide rules. Not having the decimal point is a real drawback. You want the decimal point, take it from me.

Bill Nye

#28. Part of my job is to help other kids find books, because not everyone has a keenly organized mind. Some kids could wander the library for hours and still have no idea how to find anything. For them, the Dewey Decimal System might as well be advanced calculus.

Neal Shusterman

#29. Ben wished the world was organized by the Dewey decimal system. That way you'd be able to find whatever you were looking for.

Brian Selznick

#30. It is true that even across the Himalayan barrier India has sent to the west, such gifts as grammar and logic, philosophy and fables, hypnotism and chess, and above all numerals and the decimal system.

Will Durant

#31. According to my definition, a number is computable if its decimal can be written down by a machine.

S. Barry Cooper