Math Quotes - Page 20

• If you enjoy math and you write novels, it's very rare that you'll get a chance to put your math into a novel. I leapt at the chance.

  Mark Haddon

  Writing, Chance, Enjoy

  "The Curiously Irresistible Literary Debut of Mark Haddon". www.powells.com. October 10, 2006.

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• With English literature, if you do a bit of shonky spelling, no one dies, but if you're half-way through a maths calculation and you stick in an extra zero, everything just crashes into the ravine.

  Mark Haddon

  Zero, Half, Literature

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• My father was really good with math. It's a funny thing, I don't remember my father or my mother being so mechanical-minded. My father always wanted to be a doctor, but he came from a really poor family in Georgia, and there was no way he was going to be a doctor.

  Herbie Hancock

  Mother, Father, Doctors

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• I thought, well, you might see curves there, but that's just a bone - so even if I lose weight that's not going to change anything. That's how I look. That's my shape. Do the math.

  Christina Hendricks

  Curves, Looks, Weight

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• How thoroughly it is ingrained in mathematical science that every real advance goes hand in hand with the invention of sharper tools and simpler methods which, at the same time, assist in understanding earlier theories and in casting aside some more complicated developments.

  David Hilbert

  Time, Real, Science

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• Working is bad enough in the winter, but in the summer it can become completely intolerable. Stuck in airless offices, every fibre of our being seems to cry out for freedom. We're reminded of being stuck in double maths while the birds sing outside.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Summer, Winter, Office

  "Idle thoughts" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. June 9, 2006.

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• Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.

  Eric Hoffer

  Trust, Beauty, Knowing Who You Are

  Eric Hoffer (1955). “The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms”

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• Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.

  Joseph Joubert

  Logic, Metaphysics, Contemplating

  "The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert". Book by Joseph Joubert, translated by Paul Auster, 2005.

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• When I cook with my son, I might chop vegetables and have fun with different shapes. Cooking is a way to teach kids about other things, like reading or math with all of the weights and measures. There are so many things that are part of cooking that are also very educational.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Fun, Educational, Reading

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• Math, it's a puzzle to me. I love figuring out puzzles.

  Maya Lin

  Puzzles

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• I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination.

  Maya Lin

  Perfect, Logic, Architecture

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• Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth-grade math, you can do it.

  Peter Lynch

  Fifth Grade, Made, Grades

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• When I originally entered UCLA, I had planned to go for a film major, but I kept finding myself taking math classes for fun, 'cause I missed them from high school!

  Danica McKellar

  Fun, School, Ucla

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was good at math and science, and I got lots of degrees in lots of things, but in a parallel universe, I probably became a chef.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Degrees, Chef, Parallel Universe

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• The No Child Left Behind Program was an incentive to the schools to get their kids up to snuff on math and science and reading.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Children, Reading, Kids

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• Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story, but music sometimes, just music itself, can turn into more of a maths problem. I guess everything in life is a math problem, but it can be more about an empirical route to getting the symmetry that you want, and this vibe, sonically.

  Frank Ocean

  People, Focus, Want

  Interview with Rebecca Nicholson, www.theguardian.com. December 13, 2012.

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• America's demographic shift was obvious to everyone in the 2010 Census - but Republicans stubbornly rejected math, facts, and polls to their electoral peril. While Republicans tailored their platform by and for the pale stale and male, among us, Obama and Democrats are embracing America's diverse mosaic.

  Christine Pelosi

  America, Males, Mosaics

  "President Obama and Democrats Won Embracing Demography as Destiny" by Christine Pelosi, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 7, 2012.

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• Order is heaven's first law.

  Alexander Pope

  Happiness, Order, Law

  1733 An Essay on Man, epistle to 4, l.49.

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• I liked math - that was my favorite subject - and I was very interested in astronomy and in physical science.

  Sally Ride

  Favorite Subject, Astronomy, My Favorite

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• The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.

  Andy Rooney

  Life, Education, Humor

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• Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.

  Bertrand Russell

  Happiness, Sleep, Men

  Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 1

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• While President Obama shirks his responsibility to advance solutions to our fiscal challenges, he can no longer hide from the merciless math of the balance sheet. Conservatives have made certain of that.

  Paul Ryan

  Responsibility, Challenges, Balance

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• When you take a look at the problems our country is facing, debt is No. 1. The math is downright scary and the credit markets aren't going to keep on giving us cheap rates.

  Paul Ryan

  Country, Giving, Scary

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• People think that the arts are optional and they aren't. They teach a level of emotional depth that's equally important to mathematic skill. You can replace some math skills with a calculator if you know how to operate the thing, but there's no calculator for human interaction.

  Hal Sparks

  Art, Emotional, Thinking

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• What the mortgage bubble was all about was big banks like Goldman Sachs taking big bundles of subprime mortgages that were lent out largely to low-income, highly risky borrowers, and applying this kind of magic-pixie-dust math to these bundles of securities and slapping AAA ratings on them.

  Matt Taibbi

  Dust, Magic, Low Income

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