Calculations Quotes

Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit. - Abu Bakar Bashir

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

According to my calculations we have about 470 chill hours now in this area. My records indicate that, on average, we should be at about 600 hours at this time. - Roger Duncan

A modern computer is an electronic wonder that performs complex mathematical calculations and intricate accounting tabulations in one ten-thousandth of a second -- and then mails out statements ten days late. - Paul Sweeney

[Using his own calculations, Bush would apply nearly three-fourths of the expected surplus to tax cuts, partly on the grounds that Washington will otherwise spend the money.] This is where it is an important election... If Al Gore uses our prosperity to build for a bigger government, there is no experience to suggest anybody will ever be able to pare it back. - Ari Fleischer

[It's one of the great enduring absurdities of baseball: As much as the game is ruled by numbers and endlessly deconstructed by statisticians, most ball clubs don't have any reliable method for determining how far a batted ball has traveled once it leaves the field of play. When they aren't making crude geometric calculations on scratch paper or just purely guessing, team officials rely on survey diagrams that are nearly 20 years old or even send out members of the grounds crew to clamber around the outfield with spools of measuring tape. Accuracy has become such a problem that some teams have stopped trying to estimate distances entirely.] There are so many variables... These numbers mean nothing when they're announced. - Glenn Geffner

[If at first you fail to find a bargain, call, call again.] They revise the fare structures every night... It's amazing the amount of fare recalculations they do. - Richard Larson

...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. - Carl Gustav Jung