Famous Quotes & Sayings

I don't read, much less follow, the valuations or predictions. I study the numbers.

John Muir

In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others

John Wilbanks

Knowledge is a public good and increases in value as the number of people possessing it increases.

John von Neumann

I am a little troubled about the tea service in the electronic computer building. Apparently the members of your staff consume several times as much supplies as the same number of people do in Fuld Hall and they have been especially unfair in the matter of sugar.... I should like to raise the question whether it would not be better for the computer people to come up to Fuld Hall at the end of the day at 5 o'clock and have their tea here under proper supervision.

John von Neumann

Any one who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. For, as has been pointed out several times, there is no such thing as a random number– there are only methods to produce random numbers, and a strict arithmetic procedure of course is not such a method.

Mark Zupan

Number one house rule of pool: don't lose in your own house.

Mark Zuckerberg

My number one piece of advice is: you should learn how to program.

Terrell Owens

I feel like with me being a big part of any offense, then the numbers are going to come.

Terrell Owens

Jerry (Rice) played until he was 42. At 39, I ran a 4.43 40-yard dash. You look at the number of dropped balls and the way guys are playing now and you can't honestly say I can't do better.

Ted Nelson

What we now call the browser is whatever defines the web. What fits in the browser is the World Wide Web and a number of trivial standards to handle that so that the content comes.

Ted Nelson

They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.

Ted Nelson

I see Professionalism as a spreading disease of the present-day world, a sort of poly-oligarchy by which various groups (subway conductors, social workers, bricklayers) can bring things to a halt if their particular demands are not met. (Meanwhile, the irrelevance of each profession increases, in proportion to its increasing rigidity.) Such lucky groups demand more in each go-round - but meantime, the number who are permanently unemployed grows and grows.

Ted Cruz

When you had a terrorist, you could only search a relatively narrow slice of numbers, primarily land lines.

Theodor Adorno

Bourgeois society is ruled by equivalence. It makes the dissimilar comparable by reducing it to abstract quantities. To the enlightenment, that which does not reduce to numbers, and ultimately to the one, becomes illusion.

Terry McAuliffe

Anyone in politics would like to have great economic numbers.

Terry Pratchett

I'm trying to remember how you tell the time by looking at the sun." -"I should leave it for a while, it's too bright to see the numbers at the moment.

Terry Pratchett

The IQ of a mob is the IQ of its dumbest member divided by the number of mobsters.

Michael Flatley

Life isn't about the number of times you're knocked down, it's about the number of times you get back up.

Michael Behe

As the number of unexplained, irreducibly complex biological systems increases, our confidence that Darwin's criterion of failure has been met skyrockets toward the maximum that science allows.

Michael Behe

As can be seen even by this limited number of examples proteins carry out amazingly diverse functions.

Michael Bloomberg

If you can't prove it's not true then a certain number of people will glom on and say it is true.

Melinda Gates

After a number of years dating, we decided we were good partners.

Michele Bachmann

This is President Obama’s number one political agenda item because he knows we will never again have a Republican president, ever, if amnesty goes into effect.

Michael Palin

I've been lucky to have made a number of travel programmes with the BBC, the object being to see places off the beaten track. As a result, I've often had a guide who's been able to show me things that you wouldn't see with a tour group.

Max Planck

Physical changes take place continuously, while chemical changes take place discontinuously. Physics deals chiefly with continuous varying quantities, while chemistry deals chiefly with whole numbers.

Max Baucus

Fundamentally, legislation that is historic, that is comprehensive, that has a large number of senators supporting it is more durable.

Maurice Strong

I am retired from all my official roles, but I am still very active. I have close relationships at the U.N. I don't have any role at the U.N, but I'm still quite cooperative with a number of U.N. activities, in particular to China and that region.

Maurice Strong

Nevertheless, the concept of sustainable development is now known - even amongst those who haven't accepted it - and it's recognized, debated and followed by an increasing number of businesses.

Matthew Lillard

The more lines I have, in general, the worse a movie is. It's very rare that I get say great things in fantastic movies. So if you see me as like, number one on a call sheet? In general, that movie is pretty bad.

Matthew Rhys

I've realised that nobody's going to die if I don't get it right and that there are a number of things out there, beyond acting, that are very interesting and fulfilling.

Matthew Dowd

This is an issue that has an exceedingly high number of threads in it. It involves race, it involves culture, it involves crime, it involves justice.

Mark Skousen

The income tax is flawed for a number of reasons - it discourages economic growth and encourages a bloated government.

Mark Shields

There is always strength in numbers