Number Crunching Quotes

Managers that always promise to 'make the numbers' will at some point be tempted to make up the numbers.

I am completely obsessed with numbers and data. I have become a scientist in later life.

Computing technology started out as number-crunching.

Control your cash. Stick to your core business. Know your numbers.

Sometimes Republicans engage in number-crunching analysis that doesn't always take the neediest into account.

When numbers are being crunched by politicians, axes are usually grinding.

In any business, you get your numbers together before you go out and do the work.

Some formulas are too complex and I don't want anything to do with them.

It's probably the wrong way round, I know, but I just love maths and doing equations. When I was a kid, I was really good at it, so when I was seven, I asked my mum what job lets you do maths and pays you for it. She said accountancy, and that was it. I was dead set.

I was good with numbers.

Networks love data. They love to be able to look at numbers and try to predict what they think will work.

I was always taught that book keeping was more relevant than book reading. The only thing worth reading was meant to be a balance sheet.

I'm always crunching numbers, so my calculator watch is a must.

Every time I sit with our general manager at a baseball game, and there's number-cruncher and statistician guy - I'm sitting around - they start talking about stuff, and I say, 'What's that? I've never heard of that one before.'

The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.

I'm also not good with numbers either, so it's not a great mix. People apparently don't want you ball-parkin' it when it comes to their finances.

I was just kind of doing the math.

Journalists ask me all the time, 'Akshay, do you believe in the numbers game?' My standard response: 'I can't count, that's why I have producers and accountants who calculate for me. As long as I have them in my life, I don't need to worry about numbers!'

The Government are very keen on amassing statistics - they collect them, add them, raise them to the nth power, take the cube root and prepare wonderful diagrams.

Publishers are notoriously slothful about numbers, unless they're attached to dollar signs - unlike journalists, quarterbacks, and felony criminal defendants who tend to be keenly aware of numbers at all times.

Spreadsheet: a kind of program that lets you sit at your desk and ask all kinds of neat "what if?" questions and generate thousands of numbers instead of actually working.

What is a budget review? A personal review with numbers