#numbers

It takes a long, hard effort and sustained determination to reduce crime. We will stay the course and we are confident that the numbers will continue to go down. ↗

— Jack Johnson

#continue #course #crime #determination #down

Now, I feel that if somebody looks through all the numbers through all those years, they will find one for Julius Rosenberg, and it is worth finding if it is such an important issue. ↗

— Julius Rosenberg

#find #finding #i #i feel #important

If I can get a story about a player, I would give you a ship load of numbers, batting averages and all just for that one precious story. That's the kind of thing that I love to do. ↗

— Vin Scully

#averages #batting #get #give #i

There are two types of claims: those based on hard numbers and those based on slippery numbers. ↗

— Simon Sinek

#claims #hard #numbers #slippery #those

We have to fight radical Islam wherever it exists. It's in Afghanistan, it's in Saudi Arabia, throughout the Middle-East in big numbers and it's in the United States. ↗

— Tom Tancredo

#arabia #big #exists #fight #islam

We're as clever as we think we are, but we'll be a lot cleverer when we learn to use not just one brain but to pool huge numbers of brains. We're at a level technologically where we can share information and think collectively about our problems. We do it in science all the time - there's no reason why we can't do it in other endeavors. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#brain #brains #clever #collectively #endeavors

What I find very interesting about the mutual funds managers is that here are people who are the new masters of the universe. They're managing billions, yet they're subject to this quiet daily tyranny of numbers. ↗

— Ron Chernow

#billions #daily #find #funds #here

...passive voice is better than writing out a humongous number and taking the risk that your readers' brains will be numb by the time they get to the verb. ↗

— Mignon Fogarty

#numbers #passive-voice #writing #humor

I am no poet. I do not love words for the sake of words. I love words for what they can accomplish. Similarly, I am no arithmetician. Numbers that speak only of numbers are of little interest to me. ↗

— Patrick Rothfuss

#patrick-rothfuss #words #love

Mathematics doesn’t care about those beyond the numbers. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #literature #literature-quotes #mathematics #numbers