Calculations Quotes

We have to choose between a global market driven only by calculations of short-term profit, and one which has a human face.

Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit.

Life it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics, it`s about experience, it`s about participation, it is something more complex and more interesting than what is obvious.

My actions to promote peace, the mediation missions which I carried out during many conflicts, which very often occurred between brothers of the same country, are not driven by any ulterior motives or any calculations based on personal ambitions.

Some years ago, I wrote a book called the Emperor`s New Mind and that book was describing a point of view I had about consciousness and why it was not something that comes about from complicated calculations.

This means I must pay close attention to the writing, but equally so to the scientific background - which sometimes means doing fairly involved calculations.