Away from the numbers

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

— Sara Paretsky

I count myself one of the number of those who write as they learn and learn as they write.

— Saint Augustine

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

— Bernd Sturmfels

Two times two is twenty-two, four times four is forty-four. When numbers get serious, they leave a mark on your door.

— Paul Simon

Cryptography has generated number theory, algebraic geometry over finite fields, algebra, combinatorics and computers.

— Vladimir Arnold

Why isn't the number 11 pronounced onety one?

— Steven Wright

The professional's grasp of the numbers is a measure of the control he has over the events that the figures represent.

— Harold Geneen

I think more about preparation than numbers. If I'm well prepared, there will be results.

— Ada Hegerberg

All I wanted to do was put together one of the best home maths systems in the world, and that's what we've done. I've…

— Carol Vorderman

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

“If you cannot trust people - trust numbers. Even if they look unbelievable - they never lie.”

— Thomas Vato