Quotes on Calculations

We have to choose between a global market driven only by calculations of short-term profit, and one which has a human face.

Author: Kofi Annan

It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.

Author: Honore Balzac

There are many different kinds of radioactive waste and each has its own half-life so, just to be on the safe side and to simplify matters, I base my calculations on the worst one and that's plutonium.

Author: David Brower

As soon, however, as capitalist competition has definitively established the equal rate of profit, that rate becomes the starting point for the calculations of the capitalists in the investment of capital in newly-created branches of production.

Author: Rudolf Hiferding

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.

Author: Roger Penrose

There was a project at Lawrence Livermore National Labs where many years ago they went down this path for scripting and controlling very large numerical calculations.

Author: Guido Rossum

It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

Author: J. Tolkien