Calculations Quotes

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And the vagueness of his alarm added to its terrors; when once you have taken the Impossible into your calculations its possibilities become practically limitless. — Hector Hugh Munro
For Rat Kiley, I think, facts were formed by sensation, not the other way around, and when you listened to one of his stories, you'd… — Tim O'Brien
Miss Vesper Holly has the digestive talents of a goat and the mind of a chess master. She is familiar with half a dozen languages… — Lloyd Alexander
What moralists describe as the mysteries of the human heart are solely the deceiving thoughts, the spontaneous impulses of self-regard. The sudden changes in character,… — Honore de Balzac
I have made calculations that would beggar your soul. What is it that villains always say at the end of stories? You and I are… — Catherynne M. Valente
Although quantum mechanics has been around for nearly 70 years, it is still not generally understood or appreciated, even by those that use it to… — Stephen Hawking
Come here,â€ she says. â€œNo, you come here.â€ â€œI said it first.â€ â€œRock paper scissors.â€ â€œNo. Because youâ€™ll do nerdy calculations and work out what… — Melina Marchetta
My calculations - allowing for a 12 percent margin of error, based on the radius of the corresponding confidence interval and the surgeon general's warning… — Darynda Jones
If the art of war were nothing but the art of avoiding risks, glory would become the prey of mediocre minds.... I have made all… — Napoleon Bonaparte
Whenever we manage to love without expectations, calculations, negotiations, we are indeed in heaven. — Unknown Author
Mr. Herschel brought with him the calculations of the computers, and we commenced the tedious process of verification. After a time many discrepancies occurred, and… — Charles Babbage
The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations… — Sun Tzu
Washington is a place where men praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations. — John Kenneth Galbraith
All that we can hope from these inspirations, which are the fruits of unconscious work, is to obtain points of departure for such calculations. As… — Henri Poincare
The tall building, concentrating man in one place more densely than ever before, similarly concentrates the dilemma of our public architecture at the end of… — Martin Filler
There was a project at Lawrence Livermore National Labs where many years ago they went down this path for scripting and controlling very large numerical… — Guido van Rossum
It is very distressing that anyone would look at these matters from a political viewpoint. Core beliefs about when life begins and ends are far… — Mac Thornberry
As soon, however, as capitalist competition has definitively established the equal rate of profit, that rate becomes the starting point for the calculations of the… — Rudolf Hiferding
Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war. — Unknown Author
Radiative transfer calculations I can do standing on my head. — Christopher Monckton

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