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Numbers Quotes by Douglas Adams
- Bistromathics itself is simply a revolutionary new way of understanding the behavior of numbers. Just as Einstein observed that space was not an absolute but…
- The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.
- First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII — and we thought it…
- It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in.…
- 42 is a nice number that you can take home and introduce to your family.
- You may not instantly see why I bring the subject up, but that is because my mind works so phenomenally fast, and I am at…
- Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy profession, and a large number of its practitioners spend many nights drowning their sorrows in Ouisghian Zodahs.
- Numbers written on restaurant bills within the confines of restaurants do not follow the same mathematical laws as numbers written on any other pieces of…
More Numbers Quotes
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour
- I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing… — Neil Armstrong
- All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are… — Isaac Asimov
- Our problem right now is that we're so specialized that if the lights go out, there are a huge number of people… — Margaret Atwood
- There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful for me… — Chinua Achebe
- No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only… — Wystan Hugh Auden