Calculations Quotes

Calculations Quote of the day

I base my calculation on the expectation that luck will be against me.

Always presume that the enemy has dangerous designs and always be forehanded with the remedy. But do not let these calculations make your timid.

You have no idea, how much poetry there is in the calculation of a table of logarithms!

Hope consists in asserting that there is at the heart of being, beyond all data, beyond all inventories and all calculations, a mysterious principle which is in connivance with me

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

I have made all the calculations; fate will do the rest.

Probability theory is nothing but common sense reduced to calculation.

I am well aware of the disagreeable effect produced on the majority of humanity, by whatever relates, even at the slightest degree to calculations or mathematical reasonings.

Tactics involve calculations that can tax the human brain, but when you boil them down, they are actually the simplest part of chess and are almost trivial compared to strategy.

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

Whenever we manage to love without expectations, calculations, negotiations, we are indeed in heaven.

I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam.

Factors in the art of warfare are: First, calculations; second, quantities; third, logistics; fourth, the balance of power; and fifth, the possibility of victory is based on the balance of power.

It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

My evenings are taken up very largely with astrology. I make horoscopic calculations in order to find a clue to the core of psychological truth.

All the calculations show it can't work. There's only one thing to do: make it work.

After all the statistics and calculations are formulated, the one element that breathes life into marketing is good design.

I am ashamed to tell you to how many figures I carried these calculations [of Pi], having no other business at the time

Although quantum mechanics has been around for nearly 70 years, it is still not generally understood or appreciated, even by those that use it to do calculations.

Failure is Central to engineering. Every single calculation that an engineer makes is a failure calculation.

A warrior, on the other hand, is a hunter. He calculates everything. That's control. But once his calculations are over he acts. He lets go. That's abandon.

The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand.

It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.

The best companies are able to realize earnings in cash, not through calculations that belong in fantasyland.

I consider a work of art as a product of calculations, calculations that are frequently unknown to the author himself.

Common sense is calculation applied to life.

It's tens of millions of calculations just to design one connection between a piece of structural steel and another piece of structural steel.

Fast food may appear to be cheap food and, in the literal sense it often is, but that is because huge social and environmental costs are being excluded from the calculations.

[Newton's calculations] entered the marrow of what we know without knowing how we know it.

If the art of war were nothing but the art of avoiding risks, glory would become the prey of mediocre minds.... I have made all the calculations; fate will do the rest.

Extreme views are never just; something always turns up which disturbs the calculations formed upon their data.

All calculations based on experience elsewhere, fail in New Mexico.

Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice.

I've got used to touring. If you make calculations of the nights spent in hotels in my life, multiplied by the tattoos I have for hundred.

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

However I am is however I am. When you see me onstage or in the press, there's not a lot of thought and calculation that goes into it.

As I'm getting older, I'm moving away from calculations and measurement. I'm trying to be more open to vulnerability and mistakes.

Death is the surest calculation that can be made.

I also ask you my friends not to condemn me entirely to the mill of mathematical calculations, and allow me time for philosophical speculations, my only pleasures.

There is no more common error than to assume that, because prolonged and accurate mathematical calculations have been made, the application of the result to some fact of nature is absolutely certain.

If Christ does not appear to meet his 144,000 faithful shortly after midnight on February 6th or 7th, it means that my calculations, based on the Bible, must be revised.

Losses of a kind of satisfaction that have no market equivalent don't show up in the calculations of economists.

Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.

God's word is unpredictable in its power... The Church has to accept this unruly freedom of the word, which accomplishes what it wills in ways that surpass our calculations and ways of thinking.

Purpose does not need to involve calculations or numbers. Purpose is about the quality of life. Purpose is human, not economic.

What really happens is that the gene pool becomes filled with genes that influence bodies in such a way that they behave 'as if' they made complex, if unconscious, cost/benefit calculations

If sophisticated calculations are needed to justify an action, don't do it.

The consideration of human suffering is not one which enters into the calculations of primitive man.

No estimate is more in danger of erroneous calculations than those by which a man computes the force of his own genius.

The vulgar call good fortune that which really is produced by the calculations of genius.