#counting

The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers. ↗

— Scott Adams

#counting #creator #likes #mysterious #numbers

There's a higher form of happiness in commitment. I'm counting on it. ↗

— Claire Forlani

#commitment #counting #form #happiness #higher

Numbers are the product of counting. Quantities are the product of measurement. This means that numbers can conceivably be accurate because there is a discontinuity between each integer and the next. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

#because #between #conceivably #counting #discontinuity

Even before he came to power in 1997, Gordon Brown promised to change the accounts to parliament from simple litanies of cash in and cash out, to a more commercial system that took notice of the public property the departments were using. This system is known as resource accounting. ↗

— James Buchan

#accounts #before #brown #came #cash

Mark-to-market accounting is like crack. Don't do it. ↗

— Andrew Fastow

#crack #like

The Macau casinos have a wonderful business, it's taking in money from Chinese businessmen elsewhere who send it through junky companies to casinos to gamble. The growth continues and they have basically western managers and western accounting, so we trust the numbers a little bit more. ↗

— James Chanos

#basically #bit #business #businessmen #casinos

If you want an accounting of your worth, count your friends. ↗

— Merry Browne

#count #friends #want #worth #you

Affirmative action has a negative effect on our society when it means counting us like so many beans and dividing us into separate piles. ↗

— John Kasich

#affirmative #affirmative action #beans #counting #dividing

Maybe it will be a great thing when the Baby Boomers finally die out. In real life, it's not a matter of the good guys or the bad guys. Rather, it's big numbers and small numbers that do the counting. ↗

— Jack Bowman

#baby boomers #bad #bad guys #big #boomers

Home base is the support system where we have a culinary team, my own writers because of the shows and the books and stuff, we have a culinary team of about six people. Marketing, public relations, accounting and all that sort of stuff. ↗

— Emeril Lagasse

#accounting #base #because #books #culinary