Calculations Quotes

The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.

Failure is Central to engineering. Every single calculation that an engineer makes is a failure calculation.

Economics is built on the assumption of scarcity. Therefore, it deals with values and calculations. It cannot seek the good that fits a specific person within a given human condition. Where scarcity rules, ethics is reduced to numbers and utility. Further, the person engaged in the manipulation of mathematical formulas loses his or her ear for ethical nuance; one becomes morally deaf.

We’re not used to calculating large amounts of data. Our brains think anecdotally.

A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.

Beware of geeks bearing formulas.

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.

We don't have parades for mathematicians, we have parades for astronauts. You don't think about all the thousands of people who worked on that capsule and crunched the numbers and were integral in getting that into space.

Some years ago, I wrote a book called the Emperor's New Mind and that book was describing a point of view I had about consciousness and why it was not something that comes about from complicated calculations.

One pursues economic theory in too extreme an extent he is likely to be in trouble; you have to consider the reality and blend what you observe as reality with an ingredient of theory, and a little, just a little bit ahead of the time, then you are likely to succeed.

I base my calculation on the expectation that luck will be against me.

My earlier exposure to physics certainly helped me in the use of biophysical techniques like crystallography, the use of computing, calculations, etc.

Rarely in the history of science has an abstract mathematical idea been received more enthusiastically by the entire scientific community than the invention of logarithms.

Extreme views are never just; something always turns up which disturbs the calculations formed upon their data.

Although quantum mechanics has been around for nearly 70 years, it is still not generally understood or appreciated, even by those that use it to do calculations.

I got good grades in math, but I never really enjoyed it. My favorite part of math was algebra, but geometry was the worst.

Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.

All calculations based on experience elsewhere, fail in New Mexico.

Even a very little girl can wield a slide rule, the cursor serving as a haft.

It's tens of millions of calculations just to design one connection between a piece of structural steel and another piece of structural steel.

Life it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics, it's about experience, it's about participation, it is something more complex and more interesting than what is obvious.

I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive.

Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions.

God seems to have a delightful way of upsetting the things we have calculated on without taking Him into account. We get into circumstances which were not chosen by God, and suddenly we find we have been calculating without God; He has not entered in as a living factor. The one thing that keeps us from the possibility of worrying is bringing God in as the greatest factor in all our calculations.

I'm trying not to pay too much attention to the rankings because calculations can distract you.