I tell you, with complex numbers you can do anything.

The only reason that we like complex numbers is that we don't like real numbers.

— Bernd Sturmfels

Indeed, nowadays no electrical engineer could get along without complex numbers, and neither could anyone working in aerodynamics or fluid dynamics.

— Keith Devlin

The shortest path between two truths in the real domain passes through the complex domain.

— Jacques Hadamard

Complete knowledge of the nature of an analytic function must also include insight into its behavior for imaginary values of the arguments. Often the…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

The whole apparatus of the calculus takes on an entirely different form when developed for the complex numbers.

— Keith Devlin

There can be very little of present-day science and technology that is not dependent on complex numbers in one way or another.

— Keith Devlin

In complex numbers you have an imaginary part but in a complex life everything is so very real.

— Soumyajit Pal

Rule number something or other -- never tell anybody anything unless you're going to get something better in return.

— Sara Paretsky

I believe that even today we can only tell a simple story without really interfering with gameplay. But in the future, I think it…

— Hideo Kojima

The songwriting of Hall & Oates is deceptively complex. There are a number of key changes that pass you by as you're listening to…

— Ben Gibbard

Perhaps we've time to have a look at the Number Thirty-One bus queue before we turn in.

— Calvin Trillin

For mathematics, even to the logical forms in which it moves, is entirely dependent on the concept of natural number.

— Hermann Weyl

The more science I studied, the more I saw that physics becomes metaphysics and numbers become imaginary numbers. The farther you go into science,…

— Dan Brown

Win with ability, not with numbers.

— Alexander Suvorov

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

— Carl Sandburg