#counting

Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them. ↗

— Dean Inge

#democracy #disadvantage #experiment #government #instead

Having solved all the major mathematical, physical, chemical, biological, sociological, philosophical, etymological, meteorological and psychological problems of the Universe except for his own, three times over, [Marvin] was severely stuck for something to do, and had taken up composing short dolorous ditties of no tone, or indeed tune. The latest one was a lullaby. Marvin droned, Now the world has gone to bed, Darkness won't engulf my head, I can see in infrared, How I hate the night. He paused to gather the artistic and emotional strength to tackle the next verse. Now I lay me down to sleep, Try to count electric sheep, Sweet dream wishes you can keep, How I hate the night. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#h #dreams

Don't blame you," said Marvin and counted five hundred and ninety-seven thousand million sheep before falling asleep again a second later. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#h #humor

The thing that motivates me is a very common form of motivation. And that is, with other folks counting on me, it's so easy to be motivated. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

#counting #easy #folks #form #me

My philosophy is not a bean-counting, accounting 'look at this.' It is a philosophy that smaller government is better government, and government that is closer to the people is best of all. ↗

— John Bolton

#best #better #closer #government #look

Counting in octal is just like counting in decimal, if you don't use your . ↗

— Tom Lehrer

#decimal #just #like #use #you

There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting. ↗

— David Letterman

#business #businesses #like #several #show

Recounting their histories, people often sound like interested bystanders to their own lives. ↗

— Hugh Mackay

#interested #like #lives #often #own

All of us kids ended up 'doing Mom.' There are four of us who've tried show business. Five if you insist on counting my sister the nun, who does liturgical dance. ↗

— Bill Murray

#counting #dance #does #doing #ended

It was the king's army, the king's people, the king's taxes; and he who questioned the propriety of the royal prerogative of taking from his people without return or accounting, was reckoned, and felt himself to be, a criminal, guilty of the highest crime of disloyalty. ↗

— John Buchanan Robinson

#army #crime #criminal #disloyalty #felt