Digits Quotes
43 quotes by 39 authors
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Can anything match that first fine discovery of the telephone and all it stood for? That first realization that, contained within ten simple digits, lay…
— Alan Coren
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You propound a complicated arithmetical problem: say cubing a number containing four digits. Give me a slate and half an hour's time, and I can…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Any one who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. For, as has been pointed out several…
— John von Neumann
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In the simplest array of digits [Ramanujan] detected wonderful properties: congruences, symmetries and relationships which had escaped the notice of even the outstandingly gifted theoreticians.
— James R Newman
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The poverty rate among black married couples has been in single digits ever since 1994. You would never learn that from most of the media.…
— Thomas Sowell
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And this is what we called our childhoods. Little more than a dress rehearsal for adding our digits to the butcher's bill of war.
— Stefan Molyneux
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Here's Williams' roadmap out of poverty: Complete high school; get a job, any kind of a job; get married before having children; and be a…
— Walter E. Williams
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There was a young fellow from Trinity, Who took the square root of infinity. But the number of digits, Gave him the fidgets; He dropped…
— George Gamow
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I don't think I've left a trail of weeping women in my wake. I mean, the number of serious relationships I've had has not been…
— Jay McInerney
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The truth is everybody does it from time to time. People dial telephone numbers and they get a wrong number only to find that they've…
— Bruce Jenner
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At a purely formal level, one could call probability theory the study of measure spaces with total measure one, but that would be like calling…
— Terence Tao
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In 2006, the number of children in targeted school choice programs nationwide will reach six digits for the first time, representing a 40 percent increase…
— Clint Bolick
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Once I'd reached the point where I could squirrel away more than 30 digits a minute in memory palaces, I still only sporadically used the…
— Joshua Foer
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To attain the rank of grand master of memory, you must be able to perform three seemingly superhuman feats. You have to memorize 1,000 digits…
— Joshua Foer
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When I first starting making money, when I first made my first six-digits, I was - my big thing was I went to put super…
— Matthew McConaughey
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The perfect PIN is not four digits and not associated with your life, like an old telephone number. It's something easy for you to remember…
— Kevin Mitnick
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There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important.
— Jim Rohn
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The doctor said, 'He can't last a week.' And I did. And they said, 'There's no way this kid's going to last a month.' And…
— Mattie Stepanek
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If I ask you to write down the last 4 digits of your social security number, and then take you out to lunch and ask…
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.
— John von Neumann
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