Quotes About Calculators

#1. I try to deal with my serious reading before work.

Donna Shalala

#2. Get your calculators out, this will be fun!

Cris Collinsworth

#3. As a Jew I am aware of how important the existence of Israel is for the survival of us all. And because I am proud of being Jewish, I am worried by the growing anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism in the world.

Steven Spielberg

#4. Crap. Like I could just go out and buy a new one - Look at me, I'm so rich I can throw calculators around! I stood and picked it up, shook it. Still worked.

Heather Demetrios

#5. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.

Edmund Burke

#6. One who scorns the power of intuition will never rise above the ranks of journeyman calculator.

Albert Einstein

#7. The first calculators tended to sell for $400 or $500. Today, you can get a pretty good one for 4 or $5.

Jack Kilby

#8. None of us are truly good. There are those of us that want to be good, and maybe even try to be, but life will not allow you to be

Charity Parkerson

#9. What the hell did magic wands have to do with helping girls learn math and science? He'd been good at both. He could have helped them with math and science. Weren't these girls supposed to be building skills? Screw magic wands. He'd have handed out some fucking calculators.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#10. Without sharks, you take away the apex predator of the ocean, and you destroy the entire food chain.

Peter Benchley

#11. It is known, to the force of a single pound weight, what the engine will do; but, not all the calculators of the National Debt can tell me the capacity for good or evil, for love or hatred, for patriotism or discontent, for the decomposition of virtue into vice, or the reverse.

Charles Dickens

#12. Value investing is at its core the marriage of a contrarian streak and a calculator.

Seth Klarman

#13. In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds. The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators. The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.

Alan Kay

#14. We are a manifestation that we perpetuate through space-time. Death is the ceasing of the observation of it whether by direct or indirect influence.

Solange Nicole

#15. In my memory of those dark winter nights, my father and I own the whole science building, and we walk about like a duke and his sovereign prince, too preoccupied in our castle to bother about our frozen duchy.

Hope Jahren

#16. To DNA, our most complex programming projects are like pocket calculators.

Randall Munroe

#17. Men like that - when they know they won't be found out - they will do anything.

Michelle Paver

#18. Nothing comforted Sabine like long division. That was how she had passed time waiting for Phan and then Parsifal to come back from their tests. She figured the square root of the date while other people knit and read. Sabine blamed much of the world's unhappiness on the advent of calculators.

Ann Patchett

#19. A good counter needs no calculator.

Laozi

#20. I remember watching my dad work on PCs, and I remember using Texas Instrument calculators in school. It was a bit nostalgic.

Scott Michael Foster

#21. Your presence is the most precious gift you can give to another human being.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#22. Sundance Supply has a neat material calculator and free greenhouse designs-Great Prices!

Shane Smith

#23. In general, I'm pretty shy and nervous about a lot of things. For me to get on stage for the first time took so many times at an open mic before I finally got on stage and did it.

Tyler Hilton

#24. These were innocent people, so innocent that they thought poverty a crime that wealth would allow them to forget.
from the notebooks of Celal Salik

Orhan Pamuk

#25. War is always more complex. Economics, history, religion all have a role, but not for the ones dodging the bullets. They just get blown around like seeds in the wind until the city folk with calculators and Swiss bank accounts stop talking rot from a bunker under a mountain.

Bill Carter

#26. So when you do board, the first class people, they're sitting there. A lot of them are working as your boarding. They have computers out and calculators. They're looking up at you like, Hey, we're making money right now! Right now we're making money.

Brian Regan

#27. If utilizing technology is not a crime then why there is prohibition on use of calculators in exams?

Srinivas Shenoy

#28. The violence of war is random. It does not make sense. And many of those who struggle with loss also struggle with the knowledge that the loss was futile and unnecessary.

Chris Hedges

#29. My fellow nerds and I will retire to the nerdery with our calculators.

David Spade

#30. On their way to freedom, some people find riches, some people find death.

Jamaica Kincaid

#31. self-determination theory." Many theories of behavior pivot around a particular human tendency: We're keen responders to positive and negative reinforcements, or zippy calculators of our self-interest, or lumpy duffel bags of psychosexual conflicts.

Daniel H. Pink

#32. Nature hates calculators.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#33. Electronic calculators can solve problems which the man who made them cannot solve; but no government-subsidized commission of engineers and physicists could create a worm.

Joseph Wood Krutch

#34. In Korea, math moved fluidly. When the teacher asked questions, the kids answered as if math were a language that they knew by heart. As in Tom's class in Poland, calculators weren't allowed, so kids had learned mental tricks to manipulate numbers quickly.

Amanda Ripley