Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jamie Hyneman

I didn't do the engineering, and I didn't do the math, because I thought I understood what was going on and I thought I made a good rig. But I was wrong. I should have done it.

Carl Sandburg

Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer.

Jascha Heifetz

Music has a lot in com­mon with math­e­mat­ics. But in music, two and two need not make four: they add up to what­ever you wish.

Abraham Verghese

Pray tell us, what's your favorite number?

Ally Carter

I didn't know there were this many math guys," Hale said as they stepped onto the crowded concourse. Kat cleared her throat. "And women," he added. "Math women.

David Foster Wallace

We live today in a world where most of the really important developments in everything from math and physics and astronomy to public policy and psychology and classical music are so extremely abstract and technically complex and context-dependent that it's next to impossible for the ordinary citizen to feel that they (the developments) have much relevance to her actual life.

Amanda Palmer

There's a fundamental disconnection in society in the way we live, this way we live that we take so for granted, and we've become very separate from one another and we don't really take lot of time to realize that. And the math is overwhelming to the point of despair, but the answers could be so simple.

AnnaLynne McCord

I loved math. I was such a nerd! I really enjoyed working through problems and finding the solution.

Andrew Wiles

We've lost something that's been with us for so long, and something that drew a lot of us into mathematics. But perhaps that's always the way with math problems, and we just have to find new ones to capture our attention.

Dalai Lama

Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.

David Lynch

Being in darkness and confusion is interesting to me.

Steven Erikson

None could guess my confusion, my host of deluded illusions and elusive delusions! A mantle of marble hiding a crumbling core of sandstone. See how they stare at me, wondering, all wondering, at my secret wellspring of wisdom...' Let's kill him,' Crokus muttered, 'if only to put him out of our misery.

Mike Watt

You know there was always a confusion that punk was a style of music.

Mason Cooley

The aphorism offers a momentary sense of mastery over some confusion or unhappiness.

Guy Kawasaki

Instant success are seldom instant and if you talk to the people behind these successes, you'll find out that they came after months of fear, uncertainty and confusion along with a flagrant lack of adoption.

Haseeb Ahmed

I think there is significant confusion at the Fed itself.

Frank Sinatra

I drink to the confusion of our enemies

James Fitzgerald

It is not good enough that a measure of this magnitude is signed into law while the government department responsible adopts a policy of silence and allows panic and confusion to run rampant.

Anders Hejlsberg

I value simplicity over everything; I always look for simplicity.

Jared Diamond

History as well as life itself is complicated -- neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency.

Albert Einstein

A theory is the more impressive the greater is the simplicity of its premises, the more different are the kinds of things it relates and the more extended the range of its applicability.

Ali Smith

Thomas Teal, a luminous translator of Jansson's twin talent for surface and depth, simplicity and reverberation in language, and someone who knows exactly how to convey her gift for sensing the meaning embedded in the most mundane act or turn of phrase.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

This paper of yours is so lightly written that you must have sweated terribly.

Douglas Adams

The future of computer power is pure simplicity.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Certain environments, certain modes of life, and certain rules of conduct are more conducive to inner and outer harmony than others. There are, in fact, certain roads that one may follow. Simplification is one of them.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

For the most part, we, who could choose simplicity, choose complication.

Simon Greenleaf

In requiring this candor and simplicity of mind in those who would investigate the truth of our religion, Christianity demands nothing more than is readily conceded to every branch of human science.