Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephen Wolfram

The fact that the same symbolic programming primitives work for those as work for math kinds of things, I think, really validates the idea of symbolic programming being something pretty general.

Swami Vivekananda

If the Lord wills, we shall make this Math a great centre of harmony. Our Lord is the visible embodiment of the harmony of all ideals. He will be established on earth if we keep alive that spirit of harmony here. We must see to it that people of all creeds and sects, from the Brahmana down to the Chandala, may come here and find their respective ideals manifested.

Tom Lehrer

But in the new (math) approach, the important thing is to understand what you're doing, rather than to get the right answer.

Steve Wozniak

Being an electronic genius was a reputation I had, maybe being even into math and science almost exclusively and not wanting to be in the other normal parts of the world.

Stendhal

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

Spike Jonze

I am better at math than spelling.

Sigrid Agren

I've always liked all the sciences like math, physics and biology

Shaun White

You know the best thing about competition? There's this whole strategy game, and when it all works out its like solving that hard math equation. You finally get the answer and you're so happy.

Steven Weber

The flaw in, say, austerity, is that its success is predicated on the relative exactitude of math rather than the shifting, liquid imperfection of peoples lives.

Richard Hamming

The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.

Sofia Kovalevskaya

It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul.

Snoop Dogg

If you stop at general math, you're only going to make general math money.

Norman Cousins

Nixon's motto was, if two wrongs don't make a right, try three.

Norbert Wiener

The advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or erased with a stroke of the pencil.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

On Venus you could cook a 16-inch pepperoni pizza in seven seconds, just by holding it out to the air. (Yes, I did the math.)

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Math is the language of the universe. So the more equations you know, the more you can converse with the cosmos.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Somehow it's O.K. for people to chuckle about not being good at math. Yet if I said, 'I never learned to read,' they'd say I was an illiterate dolt.

John von Neumann

The calculus was the first achievement of modern mathematics and it is difficult to overestimate its importance. I think it defines more unequivocally than anything else the inception of modern mathematics; and the system of mathematical analysis, which is its logical development, still constitutes the greatest technical advance in exact thinking.

John von Neumann

Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

May Sarton

I see a certain order in the universe and math is one way of making it visible.

Maya Lin

Math, it's a puzzle to me. I love figuring out puzzles.

Maya Lin

I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination.

Matt Taibbi

What the mortgage bubble was all about was big banks like Goldman Sachs taking big bundles of subprime mortgages that were lent out largely to low-income, highly risky borrowers, and applying this kind of magic-pixie-dust math to these bundles of securities and slapping AAA ratings on them.

Meg Cabot

I really wanted to be veterinarian, but I got a 410 on my math SATs.

Max Black

... a result once generally accepted by mathematicians is seldom retracted, and then only with great pangs. The Nature of Mathematics

Plato

The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics.

Plato

God forever geometrizes.

Plato

Geometry existed before creation.

Plato

Numbers are the highest degree of knowledge. It is knowledge itself.

Phil McGraw

I just am not good at math.

Lance Armstrong

The Tour (de France) is essentially a math problem, a 2,000-mile race over three weeks that's sometimes won by a margin of a minute or less. How do you propel yourself through space on a bicycle, sometimes steeply uphill, at a speed sustainable for three weeks? Every second counts.

Lisa Randall

Although I was first drawn to math and science by the certainty they promised, today I find the unanswered questions and the unexpected connections at least as attractive.

Lisa McMann

Bashful=Spanish, Miss Gardenia Doc=Psychology, Mr. Wang Happy=Chemistry 2, Mr. Durbin Dopey=English Lit., Mr. Purcell Dippy=Math, Mrs. Craig Dumbass=PE, Coach Crater