Top 100 Quotes About The Numbers
#1. We should ask, critically and with appeal to the numbers, whether the best site for a growing advancing industrial society is Earth, the Moon, Mars, some other planet, or somewhere else entirely. Surprisingly, the answer will be inescapable - the best site is somewhere else entirely.
Gerard K. O'Neill
#2. I think that baseball as a whole, I am a huge romantic when it comes to the history and the stats and the numbers the stories behind it, so I would consider myself a pretty big fan.
Graham Elliot
#3. I do not want to drive across a bridge designed by an engineer who believed the numbers in structural stress models are relative truths.
R.C. Sproul
#4. The quotation falsely attributed to Stalin, 'One death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic,' gets the numbers wrong but captures a real fact about human psychology. (p. 220)
Steven Pinker
#5. Me being me, I put the numbers from my hospital's website from my tumor sizes into a spreadsheet.
Dave DeBronkart
#6. No one loves the numbers more than I do, but numbers don't measure everything, especially when it comes to evaluating defense. And in the end, I am going to trust Buck Showalter's eyes more than a set of statistics devised by someone who never played the game.
Tim Kurkjian
#7. Obviously, given the objective that we have, what I would hope is that people would be able to see that actually we had reduced the numbers of people, the net number of people, coming into the country. People would, presumably, see that, but it's difficult to say how.
Theresa May
#8. Our object must be to bring our territory into harmony with the numbers of our population.
Adolf Hitler
#9. Give an economist a result you want, and he'll find the numbers to justify it.
David Baldacci
#10. I love to make stories out of license plates on cars about the initials and the numbers - my mum used to do that with me.
Olivia Newton-John
#11. I want to see the numbers that prove that show-business marriages are any less successful than other marriages. It's just very public when they fail.
Kevin Bacon
#12. Once they were the same age. Now Leah is aging in dog years. Her thirty-five is seven times his, and seven times more important, so important he has to keep reminding her of the numbers, in case she forgets.
Zadie Smith
#13. I've lived on a military base and in a convent boarding school with dobermans at the bottom of front stairs to keep us in and intruders out, and in college I spent some time at the Naval Academy, where everything was run by the numbers.
Kit Reed
#14. I'm from there. You know, when you grow up with these people and see them every day and then you look at the numbers it was easy; it was a no-brainer. And when Sony took a look, it was a no-brainer to them, too.
Magic Johnson
#15. There's something missing about how we're informing the youngsters coming along about what matters in the world. We teach them the numbers and the letters, but we fail to communicate the importance of our connection to the living world.
Sylvia Earle
#16. I've been amazed by the numbers that have come out to see the torch relay, so being a part of it is lovely.
Bryn Terfel
#17. For years I exercised to be thinner, and I never got the results I wanted. When I finally started working out to be healthier, I saw a transformation. I've even quit weighing myself so I don't obsess over the numbers.
Judy Reyes
#18. There were no computers in my high school, and the first two times I attempted college, people were still counting on their fingers and removing their shoes when the numbers got above ten.
David Sedaris
#19. When we add all the numbers together, from all the different forms of energy, it always gives the same total. But as far as we know there are no real units, no little ballbearings. It
Richard Feynman
#20. Math is the great equalizer. If you can do the numbers, the boys have to respect you.
Audrey MacLean
#21. Numerically speaking, half the population cannot be a minority. Yet when it comes to women, the numbers plainly show that the mathematically impossible is the socially acceptable.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
#22. Technology is changing, so the viewership is getting broken up. My kids watch everything downloaded; they have no idea what the numbers or the names of the channels mean, except 'FX makes the show that I see on my computer.'
Denis Leary
#23. Quite simply, promotions are not just functions of ability, values, or the numbers you hit, but also rest critically on how you are perceived.
Sylvia Ann Hewlett
#24. Ryder - the oldest, Avery continued. He's standing as job boss on this project. Owen's the detail guy, runs the numbers, makes the calls, takes the meetings. Or most of them. Beckett's an architect.
Nora Roberts
#25. What am I? The data? The process that generates it? The relationships between the numbers?
Greg Egan
#26. Americans often did not realize that their Marine Corps was a force without counterpart in the world. European navies used Marines for limited duties on shipboard or in naval bases, but neither the numbers nor the training were provided for large-scale offensive operations.
Lynn Montross
#28. The numbers matter: underreporting of Lyme disease obscures the true burden of the illnesses, on individuals as well as on health-care systems. It also makes it harder to convince Congress to fund research.
Michael Specter
#29. When it comes to poetry, I think partly the numbers of people attempting to write poems is probably a result or the reaction to technology.
Donald Hall
#30. You're going to fall down, but the world doesn't care how many times you fall down, as long as it's one fewer than the numbers of times you get back up.
Aaron Sorkin
#32. I find that it's not the numbers but the quality of the audience. That's why it got to be such a big thing when I left Microsoft, because I had an interested audience; not huge, but passionate. The passionate ones are the ones who change society.
Robert Scoble
#33. A promise is binding in the inverse ratio of the numbers to whom it is made.
Thomas De Quincey
#34. You can raise good children in single parent households, and many of you perhaps here today come from that type of environment. It is possible and many do it in heroic situations, but it's much more difficult and the numbers move against us in a broad society.
Sam Brownback
#35. When I moved into management, it was all about managing people and keeping them motivated - I didn't use sales metrics to drive my business. Now, everything comes from the numbers.
Jim McDonough
#36. By the numbers, by all the official records, here at the confluence of history, of racism, of poverty, and economic power, this is what our lives are worth: nothing.
Jesmyn Ward
#37. Governing isn't as easy as you think. Many of you have taken pledges that are contradictory - to balance the budget and cut taxes, for example. You must be honest about the numbers, since our annual deficit now exceeds all discretionary spending combined.
Brian Baird
#38. When you can dramatically lower the costs of connecting supply and demand, it changes not just the numbers, but the entire nature of the market.
Chris Anderson
#39. In every squadron there were, perhaps, four or five pilots who exuded confidence. They knew that they were going out to shoot. The rest knew sub-consciously, that they would make up the numbers, mill about, and get shot at.
Lynn Garrison
#40. The refugee resettlement program is a kind of worldwide business. There is pressure to keep the numbers up even as you are struggling with the people who do come in.
Romano L. Mazzoli
#41. 2015 - the year of infinity - if you add all the numbers up you get 8 - which on it's side is the sign of infinity - and I think it's going to be one hell of a good year for us.
Jay Woodman
#42. The numbers may be said to rule the whole world of quantity, and the four rules of arithmetic may be regarded as the complete equipment of the mathematician.
James C. Maxwell
#43. I live my life by the numbers. Not only am I an American, I am an Americanist.
Henry Rollins
#44. Difficulty of subsistence made the invaders reduce the numbers of the army to a point at which it might live on the country during the prosecution of the war.
Thucydides
#45. Every morning you have the economic news from all over the world, from television, radio, the Internet, and an hour later the news changes and the numbers change. People run fast from one place to another, which is very risky because they don't have enough time to think.
Costa-Gavras
#46. The suits love their numbers, Malone thinks. This new management breed of cops are like the sabermetrics baseball people. They believe the numbers say it all, and when the numbers don't say what they want them to, they massage them like Koreans on Eighth Avenue until they get a happy ending.
Don Winslow
#47. I feel like with me being a big part of any offense, then the numbers are going to come.
Terrell Owens
#48. People perceive her [Jill Stein ] as hurting [Hillary] Clinton. I think she's doing very well. I don't think the numbers will be good enough for them to be in the debate.
Donald Trump
#49. They got the guns, but we got the numbers.
Jim Morrison
#50. Holding up my credit card so Gilley could see, I snipped it in half.
'You act like I don't have the numbers, expiration date, and security code memorized,' he mocked.
Victoria Laurie
#51. I hate it when, by page 30, I know what the lead's going to do and then what the bad guy's gonna do. Mostly it's just scripts by the numbers where nothing's surprising, nothing's interesting.
Don Cheadle
#52. If rowing is a trial then the ergometer is the courtroom, the meter is the jury. And an honest jury at that, because the numbers do not lie.
Barry S. Strauss
#53. Let's start with the most prominent ecological crisis of our time: global warming. When you look seriously at the numbers, you find that switching from a meat-based to a plant-based diet would do more to curb and reverse global warming than any other initiative.
T. Colin Campbell
#54. The scale of light can be described by numbers called the frequency and as the numbers get higher, the light goes from red to blue to ultraviolet. We can't see ultraviolet light, but it can affect photographic plates. It's still light only the number is different.
Richard P. Feynman
#55. Speaking of plunging into war, do you know why I think George W. Bush is so pissed off at Arabs? They brought us algebra. Also the numbers we use, including a symbol for nothing, which Europeans had never had before. You think Arabs are dumb? Try doing long division with Roman numerals.
Kurt Vonnegut
#56. I was completely swept along with my own compulsion. I don't know how else to put it. It didn't satisfy me completely, so maybe I was thinking, 'Maybe another one will. Maybe this one will.' And the numbers started growing and growing and just got out of control, as you can see.
Jeffrey Dahmer
#57. Tough management is a way to approach work. It is a practical, reasonable, and organized way to get to decisions more easily, make the numbers on a consistent basis, have those around you understand where you stand, and increase the business.
Chuck Martin
#58. New Rule: Stop talking about "the gas prices under Obama." As if he's the guy out there changing the numbers on the sign with that long pole. And while they're at the gas station, Republicans who still think human activity doesn't affect air quality should poke their heads in the men's room.
Bill Maher
#59. My best advice for anyone out there that feels like, 'I don't have a million followers so why should I even give it a shot,' is that it's not about the numbers - it's about the engagement. That's how you can build influence.
Michelle Phan
#60. We are being colonised without New Zealanders having some say in the numbers of people coming in and where they are coming from. This is a deliberate policy of ethnic engineering and re-population.
Winston Peters
#61. Journalists ask me all the time, 'Akshay, do you believe in the numbers game?' My standard response: 'I can't count, that's why I have producers and accountants who calculate for me. As long as I have them in my life, I don't need to worry about numbers!'
Akshay Kumar
#62. I'll be satisfied with what I've got at the end of the season, ... If I can play every day, the numbers will come.
Jonny Gomes
#63. The professional's grasp of the numbers is a measure of the control he has over the events that the figures represent.
Harold Geneen
#64. We have to keep in mind that it's not just about the numbers of people who died; it's also the manner which many of these victims met their deaths.
Iris Chang
#65. We need to get beyond the politics of the moment, the deficit of the hour, the military count of the day, the numbers that rarely shape events. Our long-term interests must be in people and in the values of democracy and individual liberty.
Bill Bradley
#66. I think that if you were to probe a lot of people's religious opinions, they would not be as religious as the numbers would suggest.
Steven Pinker
#67. Certainly there is not the fight recorded in Concord history, at least, if in the history of America, that will bear a moment's comparison with this, whether for the numbers engaged in it, or for the patriotism and heroism displayed.
Henry David Thoreau
#68. My tax return in the United States has to be kept on a special computer because their normal computers can't deal with the numbers. So I am constantly getting these notices telling me I haven't paid something when really it is just on the wrong computer.
Bill Gates
#69. One thing is undeniable. If we are going to continue to have support for migration, we need to be able to control the numbers.
Michael Gove
#70. I am a person who continually destroys the possibilities of a future because of the numbers of alternative viewpoints I can focus on the present.
Doris Lessing
#71. I don't know the numbers, but roughly half of the people who came through Ellis Island returned home. They came here to make money, not to make history.
Aleksandar Hemon
#72. I just don't feel comfortable anymore with the kind of attention that I'm getting. It's purely the numbers of people that want a bit of the Cure or want a bit of me.
Robert Smith
#73. Earlier today, we got a call from Stephen Hawking. He's a genius, and after 6,028 shows he ran the numbers and he said it works out to about eight minutes of laughter.
David Letterman
#74. People get tired of you. So they decided to throw me out. And so help me God, as the numbers were coming in, I said to myself, 'I'm free at last.'
Ed Koch
#75. Some people have blithely dismissed growth in markets like China and India, saying Silicon Valley will always be the hub for tech: that everyone will come to us. Wake up: Because the numbers are showing money and talent is increasingly going elsewhere.
Sarah Lacy
#76. I just kind of dive in if I think I can create something that will make a difference and then try to get the numbers to stack up after the event. So most of the things I've done I would not have done if I'd have asked the accountants to look at them before.
Richard Branson
#77. I'm not a guy that sets a number of goals. If I can go out and continue to have a consistent approach every day and get to where I feel comfortable enough. Then I go into a game, relax and play, the numbers will take care of themselves.
Matt Holliday
#78. Vanity metrics are the numbers you want to publish on TechCrunch to make your competitors feel bad.
Eric Ries
#79. Humans are something very different from animals, and the numbers required to get cloning to work in animals are completely prohibitory with humans.
Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
#80. I think soccer is more respected now than it ever has been. You can see that in the numbers of young kids who are playing and the numbers of people who are coming to watch.
Brandi Chastain
#81. If any of the numbers people were arrested, Willard and Mariah Redd carried the money to set them free. Being arrested with policy slips or other numbers paraphernalia was a misdemeanour with a fine of $50.
John W. Harshaw
#82. The Macau casinos have a wonderful business, it's taking in money from Chinese businessmen elsewhere who send it through junky companies to casinos to gamble. The growth continues and they have basically western managers and western accounting, so we trust the numbers a little bit more.
James Chanos
#83. Once you start worrying about a national football championship, then you begin to worry about getting the quality of athlete, and the numbers needed, to win a national championship. And that worry leads to pressure to compromise academic standards to admit those athletes.
Derek Bok
#84. The value of having numbers - data - is that they aren't subject to someone else's interpretation. They are just the numbers. You can decide what they mean for you.
Emily Oster
#85. Ask Gandhi, and eye for an eye makes us both blind ... ask an engineer, and the numbers don't lie - the first to strike wins.
Steven Ivy Attorney Entrepreneur
#87. There is no doubt there is more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, caused by the burning of fossil fuels. It should have an effect on the climate, but the numbers indicate that effect is relatively minor.
John Christy
#88. How many girls has he slept with?" "It's probably up to eighty now," I said. "But in his case, the higher the numbers go, the less each individual act seems to mean. Which is what I think he's trying to accomplish.
Haruki Murakami
#89. Bill Clinton blasted anti-immigration supporters at the National Council of La Raza convention in Los Angeles Saturday. Thousands of Hispanics poured into Los Angeles for the convention. The hot weather in the desert kept the numbers down.
Argus Hamilton
#90. Spending when the math's not there and the numbers aren't there and if they look in the social security trust fund, it's filled with IOUs because the government's been pilfering it for years on end. We have to do something. We have to start having this discussion.
Ben Quayle
#91. Mirrors and copulation are abominable, since they both multiply the numbers of men ...
Jorge Luis Borges
#92. Life is like a combination lock; your job is to find the numbers, in the right orders, so you can have anything you want.
Brian Tracy
#93. I don't know French at all. I took some lessons when I was younger but all I know are the numbers. I've been told basically everyone in Monaco speaks English because of it being a huge vacation spot so I'm excited about that. I might not need to learn French after all.
Freddy Adu
#94. One hundred only, Lord Earl. But judge us not by our number. Rather, watch the numbers of dead we leave behind.
David Gemmell
#95. So scared of getting older
I'm only good at being young
So I play the numbers game to find a way to say that life has just begun.
John Mayer
#96. I think that the firepower of the Civil War, the numbers of bodies that were left to rot, the numbers of amputations in the Civil War, all of this created threats to the understanding of the human being as an integral soul, as a body and soul that could be united.
Drew Gilpin Faust
#97. Great leaders are willing to sacrifice the numbers to save the people. Poor leaders sacrifice the people to save the numbers.
Simon Sinek
#98. I differ materially from Capt. Lewis, in my account of the numbers, manners, and morals of the Sioux.
Zebulon Pike
#99. The numbers of universes perceived by human beings does not equal the population of the planet, but several times the population of the planet. It thus appears some sort of miracle that we sometimes find it possible to communicate with each other at all, at all.
Robert Anton Wilson
#100. You can't run a company simply by the numbers. So if you're going to bet on someone, you bet on someone you want to be in business with for a long time.
Amy Pascal
