Mankind invented a system to cope with the fact that we are so intrinsically lousy at manipulating numbers. It's called the graph. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
In my perception, the world wasn't a graph or formula or an equation. It was a story. — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
Songwriters can sort of get away with murder. You can throw out crazy theories and not have to back it up with… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
Art and mass entertainment and propaganda, they can all be plotted on the same graph, but there is a difference. — David Mamet Copy Share Image
We cannot just look at a country by looking at charts, graphs, and modelling the economy. Behind the numbers there are people. — Christine Lagarde Copy Share Image
When one controls form, one doesn't do it with a stopwatch or a graph. One does it by sensing, again intuitively. — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
My Panasonic typewriter can make graphs. It types in four different colors. — Heather O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Artists have the unique ability to tell stories. It's not charts and graphs that get people to change. — LeCrae Copy Share Image
People will come to your site because you have good compelling content. You need to hit it from all angles: blog posts,… — Chris Bennett Copy Share Image
Sometimes to speak as a woman is to cry, and to speak from our emotional, intuitive knowing, as opposed to graphs and… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
We at Google have made tremendous advances in understanding language. Our knowledge graph has been fundamental to that. The new algorithm that… — Amit Singhal Copy Share Image
Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart. The instrument through which the dance speaks is also… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
In sound design programs now, you can literally sculpt the sound on visual graphs. Sometimes the visual programs are even more interesting… — Doug Aitken Copy Share Image
Destructors for virtual base classes are executed in the reverse order of their appearance in a depth-first left-to-right traversal of the directed… — Bjarne Stroustrup Copy Share Image
In the end we won't be judged as a society solely by our growth statistics or economic activity graphs. We will be… — Carmen Lawrence Copy Share Image
I'm sure that you could go back and make a graph showing that all the killings of black males increased in times… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
[W]hen we look at the graphs of rising ocean temperatures, rising carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and so on, we know that… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
I am a Prince," he replied, being rather dense. "It is the function of a Prince—value A—to kill monsters—value B—for the purpose… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
In the digital universe, our personal history and its sense of narrative is succeeded by our social networking profile - a snapshot… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
And yet, winning is like a welcome drink going down your throat, like a beautiful embrace. It is brilliant while it lasts… — Harsha Bhogle Copy Share Image
Of course building a kitchen makes all the symmetric sense in the world because everybody's burning calories at 120 beats a minute.… — David Lee Roth Copy Share Image
About 85 per cent of my "thinking" time was spent getting into a position to think, to make a decision, to learn… — J. C. R. Licklider Copy Share Image
If you set yourself a goal for energy usage in your house, if you have to look at a graph on your… — Werner Vogels Copy Share Image
I was definitely looking for a reason to impose rules in the story during the writing process... a set of reasons that… — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image
To effectively leverage the social graph, every company needs to understand that they need to make their information easily transferable. — Erik Qualman Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
But there are certain books I would never put on a Kindle because you want to be able to look at graphs… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
Because anybody can write, but not everybody invents new forms of writing. Gertrude Stein invented a new form of writing and her… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Among the social sciences, economists are the snobs. Economics, with its numbers and graphs and curves, at least has the coloration and… — Michael Kinsley Copy Share Image
One thing we seem to be missing is that just as we no longer search for the news, the news finds us… — Erik Qualman Copy Share Image
Art is always the index of social vitality, the moving finger that records the destiny of a civilization. A wise statesman should… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
Think about spam filters; if email didnt come from someone that someone you know knows, thats an important signal, and one we… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
If Facebook gets your entire social graph, you don't necessarily want to share everything with your entire social graph. You might wanna… — Ashton Kutcher Copy Share Image
In fact, if you look at the root word of phonograph it just means phonetics of graphology, phono-graph, writing with sound, so… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
The company that creates one global social graph will be very important going forward. It will be Facebook, with maybe 2-3 local… — Yuri Milner Copy Share Image
Our present addiction to pollsters and forecasters is a symptom of our chronic uncertainty about the future... We watch our experts read… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image