Rounding Error Quotes

#1. The velocities and forces involved in anything at orbital altitudes were enough to kill a human with just the rounding error. At their speeds, the friction from air too thin to breathe would set them on fire.

James S.A. Corey

#2. Of the many species that have existed on earth
estimates run as high as fifty billion
more than ninety-nine per cent have disappeared. In the light of this, it is sometimes joked that all of life today amounts to little more than a rounding error.
more than a rounding error.

Elizabeth Kolbert

#3. You know those movies where the people in the audience are screaming, 'Don't go in that door!' because you know the killer is there? Well, it is the same thing with this debt. We know how this ends.

Marco Rubio

#4. Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.

Jonathan Edwards

#5. Funny thing, employment. If you keep doing it, you keep getting paid.

N.K. Jemisin

#6. They were two very religious people. My father was a foundry worker and was a daily Mass attender, as was my mother.

Martin McGuinness

#7. I said
'i don't know'
because that
had become
my answer
to everything.

David Levithan

#8. Men sometimes have strange motives for the things they do.

Michael Reeves

#9. It was so much easier when I didn't want anything. Not getting what you want can make you cruel.

David Levithan

#10. No suspects. No persons of interest. Just a girl who was alive one day and dead the next.

Charlie Donlea

#11. Why kill good people just to get a bad man?

Loudon Wainwright III

#12. The changes taking place in this part of Europe are enormous and very rapid. One world is disappearing. I am trying to photograph what's left. I have always been drawn to what is ending, what will soon no longer exist.

Josef Koudelka