Calculators Quotes

• But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.

  Edmund Burke

  Birthday, Europe, Forever

  Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

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• Nature hates calculators.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Hate

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.99, Coyote Canyon Press

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• Calculators can only calculate - they cannot do mathematics.

  John A. Van de Walle

  Education, Knowledge, Math

  John A. Van de Walle (1994). “Elementary School Mathematics: Teaching Developmentally”, Longman Publishing Group

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• Numbers have life; they’re not just symbols on paper.

  Shakuntala Devi

  Life, Numbers, Paper

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• I'm always crunching numbers, so my calculator watch is a must.

  David Neeleman

  Numbers, Watches

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• I've always said to myself that if a little pocket calculator can do it why shouldn't I?

  Roald Dahl

  Believe In Yourself, Pockets, Littles

  Roald Dahl (1996). “Matilda”, Puffin

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• A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator.

  Paul Valery

  Reality, Dancer, Hybridity

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• Electronic calculators can solve problems which the man who made them cannot solve; but no government-subsidized commission of engineers and physicists could create a worm.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Science, Technology, Men

  1949 The Twelve Seasons,'February'.

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• The first calculators tended to sell for $400 or $500. Today, you can get a pretty good one for 4 or $5.

  Jack Kilby

  Today, Firsts, Sells

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• There's like ten minutes when it's like, 'Okay, wait, who is this guy again?' And then, you know, I just put on the calculator watch and the glasses, and just be all, you know, inappropriate. And then it just works out fine.

  Rainn Wilson

  Glasses, Work Out, Waiting

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• I sold my most valuable possession, but I knew that because I worked at Hewlett Packard, I could buy the next model calculator the very next month for a lower price than I sold the older one for!

  Steve Wozniak

  Next, Months, Economy

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• One who scorns the power of intuition will never rise above the ranks of journeyman calculator.

  Albert Einstein

  Intuition, Rise Above, Scorn

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• Get your calculators out, this will be fun!

  Cris Collinsworth

  Fun

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• Fighting emotion with logic is like bringing a calculator to a knife fight

  Josh Sundquist

  Fighting, Knives, Emotion

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• A lot of people... use a calculator!

  Joe Strummer

  People, Use

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• I can count all the lovers I've had on one hand...if I'm holding a calculator.

  Sebastian Horsley

  Hands, Lovers, Ifs

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• A good calculator does not need artificial aids.

  Laozi

  Math, Doe, Needs

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• My fellow nerds and I will retire to the nerdery with our calculators.

  David Spade

  Nerd, Retiring, Fellows

  "Fictional character: Richard Hayden". "Tommy Boy", www.imdb.com. 1995.

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• Mathematics is much more than computation with pencil and a paper and getting answers to routine exercises. In fact, it can easily be argued that computation, such as doing long division, is not mathematics at all. Calculators can do the same thing and calculators can only calculate they cannot do mathematics.

  John A. Van de Walle

  Teaching, Math, Exercise

  John A. Van de Walle (1994). “Elementary School Mathematics: Teaching Developmentally”, Longman Publishing Group

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• A good counter needs no calculator.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Needs

  Laozi, Bi Wang, Paul J. Lin (1977). “A translation of Lao Tzu's Tao te ching and Wang Pi's commentary”, Univ of Michigan Center for chinese

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• Speaking of human computers, there is a guy named Art Benjamin, he's a human calculator. He says it's a skill he learned as a kid. Now he's a math professor at Harvey Mudd. He can find the square root of a six digit number in a few seconds. Practice.

  Bill Nye

  Art, Kids, Math

  "Bill Nye: Cell phones aren't making us dumb". Interview with Wilson Rothman, www.nbcnews.com. March 23, 2010.

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• I am so old, I entered engineering school with a slide rule. And I left engineering school with a calculator. I can still use a slide rule but it's not a skill you especially need anymore.

  Bill Nye

  School, Engineering, Skills

  "Bill Nye: Cell phones aren't making us dumb". Interview with Wilson Rothman, www.nbcnews.com. March 23, 2010.

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• From the time I was 7, when I purchased my first calculator, I was fascinated by the idea of a machine that could compute things.

  Michael Dell

  Technology, Ideas, Machines

  Michael Dell, Catherine Fredman (2010). “Direct From Dell: Strategies that Revolutionized an Industry”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms and quicksands and thousand-and-one items to be allowed for, that a man has to live, if he would not founder and go to the bottom and not make his port at all, by dead reckoning, and he must be a great calculator indeed who succeeds. Simplify, simplify.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Creativity, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.144

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• Bill Frindall has done a bit of mental arithmetic with a calculator

  John Arlott

  Afl, Done, Bills

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