#numbers

Great numbers of Asian Americans do not fit the model minority or 'tiger family' stereotypes, living instead in multigenerational poverty far from the mainstream. ↗

— Eric Liu

#family #far #fit #great #instead

And on the war, I think my numbers would be a lot higher if I were out there beating the drum for this war. In fact, I don't think it, I know it. But I can't be for the war. ↗

— Chris Matthews

#drum #fact #higher #i #i think

All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers, so that the aim of exact science is to reduce the problems of nature to the determination of quantities by operations with numbers. ↗

— James C. Maxwell

#between #determination #exact #exact science #founded

The numbers may be said to rule the whole world of quantity, and the four rules of arithmetic may be regarded as the complete equipment of the mathematician. ↗

— James C. Maxwell

#complete #equipment #four #mathematician #may

Well can I just make a point about the numbers because people talk a lot about police numbers as if police numbers are the holy grail. But actually what matters is what those police are doing. It's about how those police are deployed. ↗

— Theresa May

#actually #because #deployed #doing #grail

It just happened that the course of the campaign went negative we actually went positive for a little over a week and you do the tracking of poll numbers and it hurt us. So the public responded to those type of ads. ↗

— Scott McCallum

#ads #campaign #course #happened #hurt

You know, the music business is like the Lotto. Just put your numbers down and sometimes they hit, and sometimes they don't. There's just no rhyme or reason. ↗

— Barry McGuire

#down #hit #just #know #like

All murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. ↗

— Voltaire

#large #large numbers #numbers #punished #sound

The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - which is a great shame, but I'd love to make a black-and-white movie one day. ↗

— Sam Mendes

#black-and-white #day #go #great #i

Around 1967 Dan Bobrow wrote a program to do algebra problems based on symbols rather than numbers. ↗

— Marvin Minsky

#around #based #dan #numbers #problems