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> [How many pizzas are consumed each year in the United States? How many words have you spoken in your life? How many different peoples names appear in the New York Times each year? How many watermelons would fit inside the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-allen-paulos/how-many-pizzas-are-consumed-each-year-in-the-united-states-how-many/)

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## More by John Allen Paulos

> [Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-allen-paulos/uncertainty-is-the-only-certainty-there-is-and-knowing-how-to-live/)

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> [I used to be surprised and even depressed when I met someone I had admired and discovered him or her to be a jerk…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-allen-paulos/i-used-to-be-surprised-and-even-depressed-when-i-met-someone-i-had/)

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> [The fashion pages have always baffled me. In my opinion, the articles appear to be full of gobbledygook as to make the astrology column…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-allen-paulos/the-fashion-pages-have-always-baffled-me-in-my-opinion-the-articles/)

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> [In the stock market... You can be right for the wrong reasons or wrong for the right reasons.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-allen-paulos/in-the-stock-market-you-can-be-right-for-the-wrong-reasons-or-wrong/)

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> [“The nuclear weapons on board just one of our Trident submarines contain eight times the firepower expended in all of World War II.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-allen-paulos/the-nuclear-weapons-on-board-just-one-of-our-trident-submarines/)

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> [When asked why he doesn't believe in astrology, the logician Raymond Smullyan responds that he's a Gemini and Geminis never believe in astrology.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-allen-paulos/when-asked-why-he-doesn-t-believe-in-astrology-the-logician-raymond/)

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> [Defined broadly enough, mathematics encompasses everything.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-allen-paulos/defined-broadly-enough-mathematics-encompasses-everything/)

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> [So many see themselves as aggrieved; so few see themselves as aggrievers.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-allen-paulos/so-many-see-themselves-as-aggrieved-so-few-see-themselves-as/)

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> [“I sometimes think it would be beneficial if people thought of each other as “historical factorials.” Thus, (Myrtle!) would be understood not just as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-allen-paulos/i-sometimes-think-it-would-be-beneficial-if-people-thought-of-each/)

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> [Mathematicians are a bit like the laconic Vermonter who, when asked if he's lived in the state his whole life, replies, "Not yet."](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-allen-paulos/mathematicians-are-a-bit-like-the-laconic-vermonter-who-when-asked-if/)

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> [Mathematics is no more computation than typing is literature.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-allen-paulos/mathematics-is-no-more-computation-than-typing-is-literature/)

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> [There is something inhuman and vaguely pornographic about statistics... Pornography, on the other hand, with its loosely bound sequences of storyless sexual couplings often…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-allen-paulos/there-is-something-inhuman-and-vaguely-pornographic-about-statistics/)

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> [Certainty a strange Ferris wheel of a statement!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-allen-paulos/certainty-a-strange-ferris-wheel-of-a-statement/)

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> [One must give up the fantasy of a perspicacious gunslinger/investor outwitting the market.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-allen-paulos/one-must-give-up-the-fantasy-of-a-perspicacious-gunslinger-investor/)

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> [How many pizzas are consumed each year in the United States? How many words have you spoken in your life? How many different peoples…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-allen-paulos/how-many-pizzas-are-consumed-each-year-in-the-united-states-how-many/)

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