Calculation Quotes
145 quotes by 128 authors
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You and I have been through too much together. We're too close, too connected. I wasn't that crazy on spirit when I said you're my…
— Richelle Mead
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The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through all eternity.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labor of calculation which could be relegated to anyone else if machines…
— Gottfried Leibniz
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I find no change of consequence in grown people, I do not miss the dead. It does not surprise me to hear that this friend…
— Mark Twain
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Experimental work of great refinement is necessary in order to determine atomic weights. No relationships between them have yet been certainly found which make it…
— Theodore William Richards
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Failure is central to engineering. Every single calculation that an engineer makes is a failure calculation. Successful engineering is all about understanding how things break…
— Henry Petroski
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Most of the tasks we do are for humans. For example, a tax calculation is counting numbers so the government can pull money out from…
— Yukihiro Matsumoto
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Even in modern art, artists have used methods based on calculation, inasmuch as these elements, alongside those of a more personal and emotional nature, give…
— Max Bill
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You could argue that war is always an irrational act, and yet many states enter into military conflict out of rational calculation or national interest…
— William Kirby
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Like Americans, people outside America want fun, want an emotional compensation for the utilitarianism and calculation that mark the rest of their lives.
— Todd Gitlin
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All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation.
— Charles Baudelaire
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In any crass political calculation, drilling for oil will always win more votes than putting a price on carbon. But if I recall what I…
— Jeff Goodell
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There are things which we feel to be good and true, though in the cold light of reason and calculation many things remain incomprehensible and…
— Vincent Van Gogh
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Our success depends on the calculation of how much time do we spend converting our extraordinary thinking into extraordinary doing.
— Senora Roy
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That awkward moment when the teacher gets a calculation wrong and you correct her.. And out of anger she shouts Do you think I'm stupid??!…
— Evan Ceaser
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There will be no misgiving, no shrinking back, no calculation of overpowering odds, no terror of possible consequences, if you frankly accept the gift which…
— Joseph Barber Lightfoot
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If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after…
— Nikola Tesla
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Brandon McCaw says how long it will take to travel 460 miles between Los angeles and San Francisco at an average speed of 48 miles…
— Brandon McCaw
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There's a famous saying: If 99% was good enough, gravity wouldn't work for 14 minutes every day. I did the calculation, and it's actually 14…
— John Alejandro King
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I have a simple calculation on how long we wil be lovers count the stars on sky plus sand on a beach multiply by your…
— Jay Zitha
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