Quotes About Abacus

#1. If you imagine the difference between an abacus and the world's fastest supercomputer, you would still not have the barest inkling of how much more powerful a quantum computer could be compared with the computers we have today.

Marcus Chown

#2. Here is the door of my mom's house, well-remembered childhood portal. Here is the yard, and a set of wires that runs from the house to a wooden pole, and some fat birds sitting together on the wires, five of them lined up like beads on an abacus.

Dan Chaon

#3. I didn't have a computer until I was 19 - but I did have an abacus.

Jan Koum

#4. To look after a medieval estate, one required a map, an indexed account book and an abacus. For its time, this was a highly sophisticated geographical information system. Looking after the earth and each of its parts requires more data, a better index and more data processing.

Tom Turner

#5. Dark furrow lines grid the snow, punctuated by orange abacus beads of pumpkins - now the crows own the field ...

John Geddes

#6. I have an abacus at home.

Conan O'Brien

#7. Sociologists are those academic accountants who think that truth can be shaken from an abacus.

Peter S. Prescott

#8. The human brain has the computational efficiency of 10^-26. You are an abacus of horse guts and shiny beads beside me. You do not understand. Cannot comprehend. And I have no time to bend the meat inside your skull and make it grasp the simple truth that still somehow eludes you.

Amie Kaufman

#9. We dwell amid pinheaded weasels who know only timid, the generic and the abacus.

Danny Baker

#10. Turning to Ann Gower, she smiled. "You're a good woman, Ann Gower."
Ann Gower drew back and looked askance at Mary. "Don't you go ruinin' me reputation, Mary Abacus. I be a real bad woman, but a bloody good whore, and you knows it!

Bryce Courtenay

#11. The force that makes the winter grow Its feathered hexagons of snow , and drives the bee to match at home Their calculated honeycomb, Is abacus and rose combined. An icy sweetness fills my mind , A sense that under thing and wing Lies, taut yet living , coiled, the spring .

Jacob Bronowski

#12. All right. Here's the deal. You're eight," he said. "I'm nine," I said. "Do I look like I carry an abacus with your name on it? Cut me some slack here, son.

Justin Halpern

#13. Paid product endorsements, especially by real or purported experts, constitute a steady rainfall of deception. They betray contempt for the intelligence of their customers. They introduce an insidious corruption of popular attitudes about scientific objectivity.

Carl Sagan

#14. What theatre started to look at much earlier than any other form was the internal operations of ordinary people, sometimes using mythic models in order to tell the story.

Pete Townshend

#15. It's hard to find other musicians that push you to go somewhere new all the time.

Jack White

#16. Love proudly. Let it burn anything between you.

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#17. Yoga not only allows you to learn to control your breathing, but it ultimately enhances your abilities to harmonize your thoughts and enhances your inner beauty.

Debasish Mridha

#18. I am not yet of Percy's mind, the Hotspur of the North; he that kills me some six or seven dozen of Scots as a breakfast, washes his hands, and says to his wife, 'Fie upon this quiet life! I want work.

William Shakespeare

#19. The war on drugs is what makes thugs.

John McWhorter

#20. So it's all right for him to rule out a serious relationship, but it's wrong if I'm not ready to settle for less?

Daria Snadowsky

#21. I'm a real estate guy.

Robert Kiyosaki

#22. however as things stood nothing seemed to have been mentioned with regard to the abyss so one can only presume that it was currently keeping itself to itself which it must be admitted is the ideal state of affairs for an abyss generally

Stuart Estell

#23. It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant.

Margaret Fuller

#24. I have always hated crowds. I like deserts, prisons, and monasteries. I have discovered, too, that there are fewer idiots at 3000 meters above sea level than down below.

Jean Giono

#25. The press Yazoo were receiving were focused on the voice, This obviously was about trends.

Alison Moyet

#26. I would say that I have a love-hate relationship with almost everything in my life, including stand-up.

Chelsea Peretti