Quotes of: Algebra Keyword

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

Nathan Kress

In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.

Fran Lebowitz

So what if I don't learn algebra?' 'Someday schools will be open again,' Mom said. 'Things will be normal. You need to do your work now for when that happens.' 'That's never going to happen,' Jon said. 'And even if schools do open up somewhere, they'...

This World We Live In

I don't know why I should have to learn Algebra... I'm never likely to go there.

Billy Connolly

He doesn't seem to mind at all that he's stupid about math.

Secrets, Lies, and Algebra

Around 1967 Dan Bobrow wrote a program to do algebra problems based on symbols rather than numbers.

Marvin Minsky

My favourite subjects at school were algebra and logic: making a big problem into something small.

Mario Testino

Men are liars. We'll lie about lying if we have to. I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive.

Tim Allen

As places of learning, schools have a responsibility to also educate on nutrition, which we all can agree is far more important than algebra, no matter what your third-period teacher claims.

Lynda Resnick

I sort of was good at writing essays. I was never very good at mathematics, and I was never very good at algebra. I loved science, but I wasn't sure of it.

Diane Cilento

At the age of 12, I developed an intense interest in mathematics. On exposure to algebra, I was fascinated by simultaneous equations and read ahead of the class to the end of the book.

John Pople

The algebraic sum of all the transformations occurring in a cyclical process can only be positive, or, as an extreme case, equal to nothing. [ ]

Abhandlungen

It's like algebra, that's all. I just have to figure it out, step by step.

Somebody Up There Hates You

For every criminal mastermind, there were ten cretins: the cruel algebra of intelligence applied across the masses.

Telegraph Hill

Algebra looked like Chinese characters to me, and I could never get into reading Shakespeare. I just did not get it.

Tommy Hilfiger

If there are four equations and only three variables, and no one of the equations is derivable from the others by algebraic manipulation then there is another variable missing.

Talcott Parsons

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

Comte de Lautreamont

I probably dreamt about running off to America or something when I was 16 because it just seemed like I was studying algebra and going, 'What am I going to use this for?'

Carey Mulligan

It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry.

E. W. Howe

What were you supposed to say to people you barely knew? That was the kind of thing I needed lessons in - forget algebra and history.

Life

...A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.

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