Elementary school Quote by Michelle Rodriguez

There is a hideous invention called the Dewey Decimal System. And you have to look up your topic in books and newspapers. Pages upon…

— Libba Bray

“Ah, the Dewey decimal system…humankind’s single greatest achievement.” From Candace Fleming’s The Fabled Fourth Graders of Aesop Elementary School”

— Candace Fleming

I spent six months working as a temp in Hanslow Library and I mastered the Dewey Decimal System in two days flat...I'm good with…

— Donna Noble

Im special with decimals. I'm tryna get my point across.

— Chiddy Bang

I continued to do arithmetic with my father, passing proudly through fractions to decimals. I eventually arrived at the point where so many cows…

— Agatha Christie

I always thought that I was okay with arithmetic.

— Erskine Bowles

“Knowledge equals power... The string was important. After a while the Librarian stopped. He concentrated all his powers of librarianship. Power equals energy... People…

— Terry Pratchett

“By the latter part of the first millennium of the Current Era, the system we use today to write numbers and do arithmetic had…

— Keith J. Devlin

My kids used to love math. Now it makes them cry. Thanks standardized testing and common core!

— Louis C. K

Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer.

— Carl Sandburg

I was fine with numbers, but it took me a longer time to grasp simple things like spellings.

— James William Middleton

Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head.

— Carl Sandburg