Calculation Quotes

Time-space as commonly understood, in the sense of the distance measured between two time-points, is the result of time calculation.

Like Americans, people outside America want fun, want an emotional compensation for the utilitarianism and calculation that mark the rest of their lives.

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

With affection beaming out of one eye, and calculation shining out of the other.

There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.

Small businesses have made the call that to stay alive, health care isn`t something they can provide. I think it`s a tragic calculation.

I`ve done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not.

If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search... I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety per cent of his labor.

Action on the move creates its own route; creates to a very great extent the conditions under which is it to be fullfilled, and thus baffles all calculation.

Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.

Common sense is calculation applied to life.

Calculation never made a hero.

Calculation has its advantages, but no one likes naked calculation.

Most of the tasks we do are for humans. For example, a tax calculation is counting numbers so the government can pull money out from my wallet, but government consists of humans.

You can potentially do approximately 100 billion times better than a current Pentium in terms of the energy required to do a calculation.

The issue is that the remaining pool of dial-up users today is a different demographic category. A couple years back, you had people making the bit-per-buck calculation ... (which) prompted them to switch. The existing pool of dial-up users is not accessing as many bits.

I think his word is in such tatters I`m not sure why we`d believe that calculation,