Calculation Quotes

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We do not assert that the capitalist mode of economic calculation guarantees the absolutely best solution of the allocation of factors of production. Such absolutely… — Ludwig von Mises
Constitutions of civil government are not to be framed upon a calculation of existing exigencies, but upon a combination of these with the probable exigencies… — Alexander Hamilton
The State governments possess inherent advantages, which will ever give them an influence and ascendancy over the National Government, and will for ever preclude the… — Alexander Hamilton
Frequent elections are unquestionably the only policy by which this dependence and sympathy can be effectually secured. But what particular degree of frequency may be… — James Madison
However I am is however I am. When you see me onstage or in the press, there's not a lot of thought and calculation that… — Sheryl Crow
More than any single action by the government since the end of the war, this one would change the face of America with straightaways, cloverleaf… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
They are supposed to be dispassionate dispensers of Pure Justice, icy islands of emotionless calculation. In short, umpires should be acute Republicans. — George Will
Calculation never made a hero. — John Henry Newman
As soon as an Analytical Engine exists, it will necessarily guide the future course of the science. Whenever any result is sought by its aid,… — Charles Babbage
Chess is a unique battlefield for human minds and computers - human intuition, our creativity, fantasy, our logic, versus the brute force of calculation and… — Garry Kasparov
The results of philanthropy are always beyond calculation. — Mary Ritter Beard
I can show you that the art of calculation has to do with odd and even numbers in their numerical relations to themselves and to… — Plato
Those who have a natural talent for calculation are generally quick-witted at every other kind of knowledge; and even the dull, if they have had… — Plato
At the Egyptian city of Naucratis there was a famous old god whose name was Theuth; the bird which is called the Ibis was sacred… — Plato
The data set of proxies of past climate used in Mann...for the estimation of temperature from 1400 to 1980 contains collation errors, unjustifiable truncation or… — Steve McIntyre
Intrinsic value can be defined simply: It is the discounted value of the cash that can be taken out of a business during its remaining… — Warren Buffett
Hillary does nothing without careful calculation. She knows that politicians - provided they have real power - who bash entire industries tend to raise huge… — Donald Luskin
Without calculation, economic activity is impossible. Since under Socialism economic calculation is impossible, under Socialism there can be no economic activity in our sense of… — Ludwig von Mises
A skyscraper is at the same time a triumph of the machine and a tremendous emotional experience, almost breath-taking. Not merely its height but its… — George Gershwin
We are perhaps not far removed from the time when we shall be able to submit the bulk of chemical phenomena to calculation. — Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac

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