Modern technology Quote by Daniel Patrick Moynihan

My dad was a mathematician and worked for New York City as a statistician. My mom was an accountant and eventually started her own…

— Lisa Su

I studied economics and made it my career for two reasons. The subject was and is intellectually fascinating and challenging, particularly to someone with…

— James Tobin

Economics in college was very poor; I was not very impressed with it. I actually wanted to study statistics. I discovered mathematical statistics as…

— Kenneth Arrow

I had become interested in economics, an interest that was transformed into a lifetime dedication when I met with the mathematical theory of general…

— Gerard Debreu

My mother was an economics professor. I'm proficient in math, and statistics, game theory, symbolic logic and all of that.

— Dave Hickey

My first undertaking in the way of scientific experiment was in the field of economics and psychology.

— Simon Newcomb

I had the idea that it would be wonderful to be a physicist or a mathematician maybe 500 years ago around the time of…

— David Chalmers

My father, a former Air India official, but essentially an inventor at heart - a man who loved to sometimes break machines just so…

— Barkha Dutt

By a combination of formal training and self study, the latter continuing systematically well into the 1940s, I was able to gain a broad…

— Herbert A. Simon

Before coming to Congress, I worked as a computer programmer and a systems analyst.

— Jacky Rosen

I started John W. Henry & Company because I enjoyed applying mathematics to markets, and it was a profound challenge that resonated within me.

— John W. Henry

“This was the Big Data economy, and it promised spectacular gains. A computer program could speed through thousands of résumés or loan applications in…

— Cathy O'Neil