Quotes of: Huge-numbers Keyword

Measured in terms of the World Bank poverty standard, the number of poor people in China fell from 652 million to 135 million between 1981 and 2004 - in other words, more than half a billion people were lifted out of poverty. The number of poor peopl...

Wang Shaoguang

As vocabulary is reduced , so are the number of feelings you can express, the number of events you can describe, the number of the things you can identify! Not only understanding is limited, but also experience. Man grows by language. Whenever he lim...

A Plague of Angels

If I ask you to write down the last 4 digits of your social security number, and then take you out to lunch and ask you how many dentists there are in Manhattan, there's going to be a high correlation between those two numbers. What happens is that t...

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I'm going to be working the next 25 or 30 years. People like me, if we want, number one, for no benefit reductions for our parents and our grandparents, number two, for the system to survive and exist for us, and, more importantly, number three, for ...

Marco Rubio

He who doesn't understand history is doomed to repeat it.

I Am Number Four

You don’t need certain number of friends. All you need is a number of friends you can be certain of.

Rola Mahmoud

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

William Dean Howells

I believe being a good senator requires two things. Number one, acumen. Number two, interest.

Trey Gowdy

One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.

Clifton Fadiman

There is no doubt in my mind who is number one - I have always been number one.

George Thorogood

The Boss: That's all there is to it. Slevin: Is that all there is to it? Mr. Goodkat: Yup... That's all there is to it.

Lucky Number Slevin

Nick: Fuck. Shit. Jesus. Mr. Goodkat: 'Fuck, Shit, Jesus' is right.

Lucky Number Slevin

Slevin: [to Mr. Goodkat] You don't wanna kill me, Goodkat.

Lucky Number Slevin

We must either reduce the number of our engagements or increase the number of our troops.

Adam Schiff

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

Voltaire

Paul Buchheit: I'm suddenly reminded that, for a while, I asked people if they were playing Russian Roulette with a gun with a billion barrels (or some huge number, so in other words, some low probability that they would actually be killed), how much...

Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days

The Emperor: [In the throne room, Luke is watching the Imperial fleet attack the Rebels from the huge throne room window] As you can see, my young apprentice, your friends have failed. Now witness the firepower of this fully ARMED and OPERATIONAL bat...

Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi

Pray tell us, what's your favorite number?"... "Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223"... "And pray, why would this number interest us?" "It is the only number that describes itself when you read it, 'One zero, two ones, three...

Cutting for Stone

Physicists love this number not just because it is dimensionless, but also because it is a combination of three fundamental constants of nature. Why do these constants come together to make the particular number 1/137.036 and not some other number?

Geons, Black Holes, and Quantum Foam: A Life in Physics

Squaring numbers is a symmetrical process that I like very much. And when I divide one number by another, say, 13 divided by 97, I see a spiral rotating downwards in larger and larger loops that seem to warp and curve. The shapes coalesce into the ri...

Daniel Tammet

I couldn't imagine choosing shopping when sex was an option.

Getting Lucky Number Seven