Calculations Quotes - Page 14

• If you buy something because it's undervalued, then you have to think about selling it when it approaches your calculation of its intrinsic value. That's hard. But if you buy a few great companies, then you can sit on your ass. That's a good thing.

  Charlie Munger

  Thinking, Ass, Selling

  16 Copy quote

• It's a waste to chase the pipe dream of a magical tiny theory that allows us to make quick and detailed calculations about the future. We can't predict and we can't control. To accept this can be a source of liberation and inner peace. We're part of the unfolding world, surfing the chaotic waves.

  Rudy Rucker

  Dream, Inner Peace, Surfing

  18 Copy quote

• I have given up the ambition to be a great scholar. I want to be more- simply a human. . . . We are not true humans, but beings who live by a civilization inherited from the past, that keeps us hostage, that confines us. No freedom of movement. Nothing. Everything in us is killed by our calculations for our future, by our social position and cast. You see, I am not happy-yet I am happy. I suffer, but that is part of life. I live, I don't care about my existence, and that is the beginning of wisdom.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Life, Ambition, Past

  5 Copy quote

• Calculating people are contemptable. The reason for this is that calculation deals with loss and gain, and the loss and gain mind never stops. Death is considered loss and life is considered gain. Thus, death is something that such a person does not care for, and he is contemptable. Furthermore, scholars and their like are men who with wit and speech hide their own true cowardice and greed. People often misjudge this.

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  Truth, Loss, Men

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo (2012). “Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai”, p.31, Shambhala Publications

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• Whatever we do, we must keep God in the forefront. Let us be Christian in all of our actions. But I want to tell you this evening that it is not enough for us to talk about love, love is one of the pivotal points of the Christian face, faith. There is another side called justice. And justice is really love in calculation. Justice is love correcting that which revolts against love.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspiring, Christian, Love Is

  "The Montgomery Bus Boycott". Speech at Holt Street Baptist Church, www.blackpast.org. December 05, 1955.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Nature seems to have poured forth her riches so without calculation, merely to mark the fullness of her joy.

  Margaret Fuller

  Nature, Joy, Riches

  Margaret Fuller (1860). “Woman in the nineteenth century: and kindred papers relating to the sphere, condition and duties of woman”, p.369

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Always presume that the enemy has dangerous designs and always be forehanded with the remedy. But do not let these calculations make your timid.

  Frederick The Great

  Design, Enemy, Danger

  Frederick the Great (2012). “Instructions for His Generals”, p.57, Courier Corporation

  63 Copy quote

  Show source

• In desperation I asked Fermi whether he was not impressed by the agreement between our calculated numbers and his measured numbers. He replied, "How many arbitrary parameters did you use for your calculations?" I thought for a moment about our cut-off procedures and said, "Four." He said, "I remember my friend Johnny von Neumann used to say, with four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk." With that, the conversation was over.

  Freeman Dyson

  Cutting, Agreement, Elephants

  "A meeting with Enrico Fermi" by Freeman Dyson, www.nature.com. January 22, 2004.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Fanaticism displays itself in the masses; but the masses were rarely fanaticised; and the crimes ascribed to it were commonly due to the calculations of dispassionate politicians.

  Lord Acton

  Politics, Politician, Crime

  John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton (2016). “The History of Freedom (and other Essays)”, p.61, Jazzybee Verlag

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• All the politics in the world are nothing else but a kind of analysis of the quantity of probability in casual events, and a good politician signifies no more but one who is dexterous at such calculations.

  John Arbuthnot

  Analysis, World, Politics

  12 Copy quote

• Molecular evolution is not based on scientific authority. . . . There are assertions that such evolution occurred, but absolutely none are supported by pertinent experiments or calculations. Since no one knows molecular evolution by direct experience, and since there is no authority on which to base claims of knowledge, it can truly be said that . . . the assertion of Darwinian molecular evolution is merely bluster.

  Michael Behe

  Evolution, Authority, Bluster

  "Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution". Book by Michael Behe, 1996.

  55 Copy quote

  Show source

• The complete and definitive work of art is created beyond one's individuality... ...The universal transcends such a level. Mere spontaneity has never created a work of art which possesses a lasting cultural value. The method leading to universal form is based upon calculations of measure and number.

  Theo van Doesburg

  Art, Numbers, Individuality

  "Elementarism". De Stijl - Van Doesburg Issue, p. 17 - 19, January 1932.

  25 Copy quote

  Show source

• Geometric calculus consists in a system of operations analogous to those of algebraic calculus, but in which the entities on which the calculations are carried out, instead of being numbers, are geometric entities which we shall define.

  Giuseppe Peano

  Numbers, Operations, Entity

  Giuseppe Peano (2013). “Geometric Calculus: According to the Ausdehnungslehre of H. Grassmann”, p.17, Springer Science & Business Media

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I kept careful record of the impact of religion on the election in my county. The religious issue permeated every meeting I conducted. It influenced Republicans and Democrats alike. Ministers preached politics publicly and churches distributed the most vicious electioneering materials. Practically no one I met escaped the pressure of this overriding problem and both parties were ultimately forced to make their major calculations with the religious question a foremost consideration.

  James A. Michener

  Religious, Party, Impact

  4 Copy quote

• Factors in the art of warfare are: First, calculations; second, quantities; third, logistics; fourth, the balance of power; and fifth, the possibility of victory is based on the balance of power.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, Victory, Balance

  23 Copy quote

• Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, altogether past calculation its powers of endurance.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Past, Endurance, Cheerfulness

  7 Copy quote

• Sound economy is a sound understanding brought into action; it is calculation realized; it is the doctrine of proportion reduced to practice; it is foreseeing contingencies, and providing against them.

  Hannah More

  Practice, Understanding, Sound

  7 Copy quote

• If ... we choose a group of social phenomena with no antecedent knowledge of the causation or absence of causation among them, then the calculation of correlation coefficients, total or partial, will not advance us a step toward evaluating the importance of the causes at work.

  Ronald Fisher

  Groups, Statistics, Causes

  18 Copy quote

• Chess is 99 percent calculation.

  Andrew Soltis

  Chess, Percent

  4 Copy quote

• These two rational faculties may be designated the Scientific Faculty and the Calculative Faculty respectively; since calculation is the same as deliberation, and deliberation is never exercised about things that are invariable, so that the Calculative Faculty is a separate part of the rational half of the soul.

  Aristotle

  Two, Soul, Half

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.146, Wordsworth Editions

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Every time I got hurt, the person who treated me said that. 'It is more attractive to admit that you're in pain.' Because of that person, I learned how to speak with honesty. Without making calculations about what the other person's thinking.

  Joo

  Hurt, Honesty, Pain

  4 Copy quote

• He knew by heart every last minute crack on its surface. He had made maps of the ceiling and gone exploring on them; rivers, islands, and continents. He had made guessing games of it and discovered hidden objects; faces, birds, and fishes. He made mathematical calculations of it and rediscovered his childhood; theorems, angles, and triangles. There was practically nothing else he could do but look at it. He hated the sight of it.

  Josephine Tey

  Heart, Games, Rivers

  Josephine Tey (2013). “The Daughter of Time”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think the comic that's gotten me the most feedback is actually the one about the stoplights. Noticing when the stoplights are in sync, or calculating the length of your strides between floor tiles - normal people notice that kind of stuff, but a certain kind of person will do some calculations.

  Randall Munroe

  Thinking, People, Tiles

  "Real Geek Heart Beats in Xkcd's Stick Figures" by Adrienne So, www.wired.com. November 13, 2007.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source