"Counting in octal is just like counting in……" — Tom Lehrer
"Counting in octal is just like counting in decimal, if you don't use your ."
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68 Quotes by Tom Lehrer
Tom Lehrer has 68 quotes on this site.
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Be careful not to do your good deeds when there's no one watching you.
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The Army has carried the American ... ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the…
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If I can't get people to commit themselves on whether or not there is a square root of two, then…
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Base eight is just like base ten really, if you're missing two fingers.
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Disclaimer: If anyone disagrees with anything I say, I am quite prepared to not only retract it, but also to…
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In my youth there were words you couldn't say in front of a girl; now you can't say 'girl.'
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I wasn't really a performer by temperament,
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You can make fun with Saddam Hussein jokes ... but you can't make fun of, say, the concentration camps. I…
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Oh, the Protestants hate the Catholics/ And the Catholics hate the Protestants/ And the Hindus hate the Muslims/ And everybody…
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If, after hearing my songs, just one human being is inspired to say something nasty to a friend, or perhaps…
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But in the new (math) approach, the important thing is to understand what you're doing, rather than to get the…
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In one word he told me the secret of success in mathematics: plagiarize; only be sure always to call it…
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More Counting Quotes
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one of 384 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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When I love, I do it without counting. I give myself entirely. And each time, it is the grand love…
— Brigitte Bardot
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Numbers are the product of counting. Quantities are the product of measurement. This means that numbers can conceivably be accurate…
— Gregory Bateson
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The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round…
— Scott Adams
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The thing that motivates me is a very common form of motivation. And that is, with other folks counting on…
— Jeff Bezos
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For me, riding a two-wheeler bike was very risky. Counting the pedal strokes before turning a corner and learning to…
— Andrea Bocelli
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My philosophy is not a bean-counting, accounting 'look at this.' It is a philosophy that smaller government is better government,…
— John Bolton
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I'm not counting any chickens.
— Jeff Bridges
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Peter is an old friend. I'm heartbroken, but he's also a tough guy. I'm counting on him getting through this…
— Tom Brokaw
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Every day I wake up and I lay in bed counting my blessings and saying my prayers for how fortunate…
— Luke Bryan
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I am in love with Counting Crows. It is so manly and American.
— Margaret Cho
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A 2002 Oxford study showed counting sheep actually delays the onset of sleep. It's just too dull to stop us…
— A. J. Jacobs
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There are parents, siblings, teachers and friends, but counting on them to motivate you isn't fair. They've all got their…
— Shannon Miller
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