Exponential Quote by Erik Brynjolfsson

The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.

— Anonymous

“Exponentials are the devils of mathematics.”

— Liu Cixin

The extinction of the human race will come from its inability to EMOTIONALLY comprehend the exponential function.

— Edward Teller

“The mathematical economists have commonly been mathematicians first and economists afterward, disposed to oversimplify the data and underestimate the divergence between their premises and…

— Frank H. Knight

“For the analyst it is a source of never-ending astonishment how comparatively well a person can function with the core of himself not participating.”

— Karen Horney

“We mathematicians understand that without the education of children, the economy cannot grow, and the world would starve from ignorance.”

— V.M.Robinson

I'm not a very analytical person.

— Patti Smith

In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy and especially dislike reading experimental papers. He seemed to have very strong biological intuitions but unfortunately…

— Francis Crick

The analytical power should not be confounded with simple ingenuity; for while the analyst is necessarily ingenious, the ingenious man is often remarkably incapable…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“I'm the 'e' in mathematics. Overlooked and forgotten, unless it is known well or studied closely. Neither is likely.”

— Thalia Skibo

“The hardest thing in the world to understand is income taxes. – Albert Einstein”

— Tom Wheelwright

“...by shortening the labours doubled the life of the astronomer. { On the benefit of John Napier 's logarithms .}”

— Pierre-Simon Laplace