Keith Barry Quotes

I'm so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.

When I was little, I carried a book of times tables around everywhere and always tried to get the best score. I like the fact that you don't need any tools, only your head. I also enjoy rules and, with maths, you are either right or wrong.

By all means, have you give great attention to your arithmetic, as its advantages are so many and important.

The Fidasians are so expert in keeping their accounts, that they easily reckon as exact, and as quick by memory, as we can do with pen and ink

I was rather foolish in saying that I did not like arithmetic and to learn figures when I did - I was not thinking quite what I was about. The sums can be done better, if I tried, than they are.

When you're out shopping, try to calculate the discount of something in the sales, or work out how much a bill in a restaurant will come to. Your brain is just like any other muscle - you have to train it to make it work faster.

Speaking of human computers, there is a guy named Art Benjamin, he's a human calculator. He says it's a skill he learned as a kid. Now he's a math professor at Harvey Mudd. He can find the square root of a six digit number in a few seconds. Practice.

A good counter needs no calculator.

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

I can't read a computer screen and never use a calculator. It's all in my head and by hand.

I'd rather have a pencil and paper and do all my own calculations rather than rely on a machine. And I'll do most calculations in double digit multiples as quick as the machine.

You know, I'm not terribly fast at my times tables, because that's not what I think mathematics is about.

I'm probably one of the worst people with numbers you've ever met. My brothers always kid that they think I'm counting cards in Vegas, but I'm just trying to add things up.

"She can't do sums a bit!" the Queens said together, with great emphasis. "Can you do sums?" Alice said, turning suddenly on the White Queen, for she didn't like being found fault with so much. The Queen gasped and shut her eyes. "I can do Addition, if you give me time-but I can do Subtraction, under any circumstances!"

From the time I was 7, when I purchased my first calculator, I was fascinated by the idea of a machine that could compute things.

I didn't have a computer until I was 19 - but I did have an abacus.

Math has a lot of negative stereotypes, but it can actually be fun and incredibly empowering.

How can you think and hit at the same time?

When a man keeps beating me to the draw mentally, he begins to get glamorous.

I just am not good at math.

I cannot transfer my abilities to anyone, but I can think of quicker ways with which to help people develop numerical aptitude.

I have an abacus at home.

Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.

Math? Forget about it. If I add four plus eight plus six, I have to count on my fingers. I guess I'm hooked up differently.

I still have to count on my hands! I'll be in a restaurant doing a tip and I'll be like, 'What's 20% of this?'