Quotes of: Number Keyword

Because of the nature of Moore's law, anything that an extremely clever graphics programmer can do at one point can be replicated by a merely competent programmer some number of years later.

John Carmack

The franchise itself gives no real power, unless accompanied by the right on the part of all the possessors of it to elect something like an equal number of representatives.

John Bright

It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society.

Murray Rothbard

I read pretty eclectically - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - and I've been inspired and influenced by a number of writers.

Barry Eisler

I've done a number of readings at poetry lounges in Vancouver and Los Angeles. I've compiled a book of poetry that's completed, and two others I'm working on.

Corin Nemec

There is just a lot of creativity and theatricality in performers who happen to be gay. Maybe there's a success in numbers, so by the law of averages we are going to get these jobs.

Neil Patrick Harris

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.

Alfred North Whitehead

He's a world-famous name to people who care about his music, but there are many people who have never heard of George Gershwin and those numbers increase.

Michael Feinstein

Think about the number of people who do film music, make records and have a Native American heritage - and I may be the only one on the list.

Robbie Robertson

All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men.

Isaac Asimov

My husband, Nick Chiles and I wrote a number of relationship books together, and what we found was that women were thirsty to hear directly from men.

Denene Millner

If you look at total numbers in the working and middle class, men still on average make more than women.

Hanna Rosin

But he did say that the character would be on the sidelines in movies One and Two, and move into the middle with number Three, but I didn't realize he would move in with quite such a bang.

Ian McDiarmid

The Prophet defeated the enemies of Islam even when he and his followers were small in number.

Abu Bakar Bashir

I write a number of screenplays, and I've never really come up with a part for a movie star.

Andrew Dominik

It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.

Arthur Conan Doyle

For a large number of problems, there will be some animal of choice, or a few such animals, on which it can be most conveniently studied.

August Krogh

No society can surely be flourishing and happy of which by far the greater part of the numbers are poor and miserable.

Adam Smith

My writing day has grown shorter as I've aged, although it seems to produce the same number of pages.

Anne Tyler

Large numbers of people are broken from the notion that the system is working for people, that the system is just or humane or peaceful.

Bill Ayers

In Mars, we've been given a wonderful set of moons... where we can send continuous numbers of people.

Buzz Aldrin