Conan O'Brien Quotes

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

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

Arithmetic! Algebra! Geometry! Grandiose trinity! Luminous triangle! Whoever has not known you is without sense!

Without mathematics, there's nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers.

God does arithmetic.

When I multiply numbers together, I see two shapes. The image starts to change and evolve, and a third shape emerges. That's the answer. It's mental imagery. It's like maths without having to think.

I always thought that I was okay with arithmetic.

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

Whenever you can, count.

Seeing there is nothing that is so troublesome to mathematical practice, nor that doth more molest and hinder calculators, than the multiplications, divisions, square and cubical extractions of great numbers.... I began therefore to consider in my mind by what certain and ready art I might remove those hindrances.

I was good with numbers.

I can do lightning mathematics quicker than somebody can do them on a calculator.

I really love numbers.

At three, I fell in love with numbers. It was sheer ecstasy for me to do sums and get the right answers. Numbers were toys with which I could play.

I always liked numbers.

Numbers have always come easy to me.

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.

Number, the most excellent of all inventions.

I was just kind of doing the math.

Arithmetic is where the content lies, and not logic; but logic prompts certainty, and not arithmetic.

Lucy, dear child, mind your arithmetic. You know in the first sum of yours I ever saw there was a mistake. You had carried two (as a cab is licensed to do), and you ought, dear Lucy, to have carried but one. Is this a trifle? What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors.

With four? Doing a little... Addition? Multiplication?

"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!"

I'll try if I know all the things I used to know. Let me see: four times five is twelve, and four times six is thirteen, and four times seven is - oh dear! I shall never get to twenty at that rate!

I meet so many people who are intimidated by arithmetic.