Famous Quotes & Sayings

It's just like a credit check, it collects data to calculate a score.

It's not so much a calculated security equation as an icky feeling about doing things differently.

Steve Fossett

I'm not confident of success because of what I'm trying to do ... We calculate that I will be able to complete the flight and have a success, but it will be very close.

Everyone is looking at this like it is a frantic move. It's not a frantic move. It's a calculated move to get better, and to get better in the future, and to get better in '07. If you look at things in '07, things look a lot better.

It was a deliberate calculated offence which put fear in the recipient and caused disruption to an RAF facility.

The hazards posed by Near-Earth Asteroids are assessed by Sentry, a computer system developed by the Near-Earth Objects Group at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. The software factors together a cosmic rock's coordinates, distance, velocity, and gravitational influences to calculate its trajectory.

You have to concentrate, but you don't have to calculate anything, ... The only thing I have to think about is: Why aren't they calling my numbers?

Greg Lynn

Without a computer, every point on a structure has to be calculated with reference to everything else. But by using a PC, I can create complex curves that don't have radii or centers.

O. J. Simpson

We just don't have the numbers on what those sales taxes will be, ... I don't know how we could calculate that.

Romesh Gunesekera

The nationalist movement supported Sinhala by suppressing Tamil; there were competing nationalisms. It was a fundamental mistake to make parallel streams in education - or a calculated political gamble. Politicians were playing with it.

It was a calculated risk to play them. And that cause the Newcastle need to rearrange the new group in the match.

A lot of biotechnology companies are in the research and development stages, ... From a fundamental point of view, investors need to look at valuation and calculate the potential for success with any therapy.

This is an execution. This is a bloody, cold, calculated murder.

This is an outcome we have calculated and we found the most self evident,

There was nothing calculated or premeditated about this crime. It's simply the uncontrollable passion of a young man taken a step too far.

Muhammad Ali

I calculate that I took 20,000 punches, but I earned millions and kept a lot of it. I may talk slow, but my mind is OK.

Michael Wolff

Covering celebrities is inexpensive, and that's a profound thing when you try to calculate why (the media) cover it. The people who take your pictures aren't on your payroll. We've created this economic model which works for the celebrities and the media.

Everything we do in emergency services is a calculated risk,

It would have been nice to get the record, ... I was trying to calculate about four miles out what I should run. I guess it just wasn't the day.

David Green

When I take a risk, I like it to be a calculated risk, meaning I make it as small as possible.

Alan Greenspan

At present, the Social Security trustees estimate that the unfunded liability over the indefinite future to be $10.4 trillion, ... The shortfall in Medicare is calculated at several multiples of the one in Social Security.

Corruption isn't a natural disaster. It is the cold, calculated theft of opportunity from the men, women and children who are least able to protect themselves.

There's something we calculate called an alpha, and that's the stock's return that's independent, uncorrelated to the market. And the only way you really get a high alpha is for something to zig when the market zags.

Jen Kirkman

I'm very big into just feeling good and doing what I want; I'm not very calculated or thoughtful about my moves.

It was a slow tempo game. Everybody was in everybody's face. It was very calculated defensive play.

Arjuna Mahendran

It will be a good thing if they pull this off. It was a calculated move and they were worried about what they did in 2000 when they prematurely raised rates.

It's a carefully calculated effort on the part of the people that manatees are in the way of.

Jay Wright

It's a calculated risk. We are confident we'll be able to do that, but it's still a risk. Until you get it back, it's never in the bag.

Johan Bruyneel

It's not easy to plan but I think we calculated it well and the guys have confidence that their form is coming.

His killing was so cold and so calculated that it is chilling in the extreme. This was a killing done without remorse.

Ehud Barak

hopeful that, in response to our readiness to take calculated risk, without violating our national interest, that the other side will be able to show some level of flexibility and openness.

Somebody took a calculated effort into not just pushing something down (but) getting a saw and cutting it down.

The press writes about questionable practices such as excluding option expense from the income statement and the use of pro forma earnings, but few calculate the earnings impact.