Quotes About Complex Numbers

#1. Indeed, nowadays no electrical engineer could get along without complex numbers, and neither could anyone working in aerodynamics or fluid dynamics.

Keith Devlin

#2. There can be very little of present-day science and technology that is not dependent on complex numbers in one way or another.

Keith Devlin

#3. The whole apparatus of the calculus takes on an entirely different form when developed for the complex numbers.

Keith Devlin

#4. The only reason that we like complex numbers is that we don't like real numbers.

Bernd Sturmfels

#5. I tell you, with complex numbers you can do anything.

John Derbyshire

#6. I like all kinds of wrestling, I like pro wrestling, so if there's a guy I've been feuding with for over a year, and damn it, the only thing left to do is beat the crap out of each other in a steel cage, then it's time to do it.

CM Punk

#7. The strange word nymphomation, used to denote a complex mathematical procedure where numbers, rather than being added together or multiplied or whatever, were actually allowed to breed with each other to produce new numbers.

Jeff Noon

#8. The English language is more complex than calculus because numbers don't have nuances.

Andy Rooney

#9. Actually, the world is not complex. It is the task of trying to figure it out with words or numbers that is complex.

Alan W. Watts

#10. Zen is not about eliminating thoughts but illuminating them.

Gerald May

#11. Certain supplementary restrictions imposed on the text compel us to perceive it as poetry. As soon as one assigns a given text to the category of poetry, the number of meaningful elements in it acquires the capacity to grow and the system of their combinations also becomes more complex.

Yuri Lotman

#12. 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

#13. Elvis deserves a lot of credit for bringing the blues to middle America, not the Vegas stuff. The early stuff, The Sun records, and the first few RCA records. He was wonderful, he had the power, the drive, and he was so dedicated to his music.

Peter Tork

#14. As experimentation becomes more complex, the need for the co-operation in it of technical elements from outside becomes greater and the modern laboratory tends increasingly to resemble the factory and to employ in its service increasing numbers of purely routine workers.

John Desmond Bernal

#15. As the number of unexplained, irreducibly complex biological systems increases, our confidence that Darwin's criterion of failure has been met skyrockets toward the maximum that science allows.

Michael Behe

#16. Your self-esteem has never been hurt before, right? Don't be so full of yourself then.

Kim A-joong

#17. Poverty is economic oppression.
Tyranny is political oppression.
Oppose those who oppress others.
Support those who liberate others.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#18. He loved numbers, their patterns and secrets, the way something complex could be reduced to something simple. In mathematics, unlike life, there was always a solution, a definite answer.

Lisa Kleypas

#19. Teams have to eliminate ambiguity and interpretation when it comes to success

Patrick Lencioni

#20. Don't dress for fashion, dress for yourself

Paul Smith

#21. Dorie herself was not very surprised, because a daydreamer is prepared for most things and in a way she had planned even this, though she had not guessed how it would come about.

Joyce Carol Oates