Calculation Quotes

You start worrying about the BCS and what bowl you're playing in, then BYU comes in and ends up beating you, which they are capable of doing, which we'll talk about tomorrow, then you've made a bad miscalculation. - Charlie Weis

You have to question why we haven't seen one built since 1976. Obviously, it's because companies have made a decision that it's unprofitable. Included in that calculation are probably a number of factors that the federal government could help influence. - Tim Adams

You go through a lot of ways of rationalizing something like this. You go through all of the mathematical calculations. We did buy this team in hopes of having a rationalized business. We're not just going to throw money away, but this was an investment in the future of this team. - Bruce Levenson

You don't have any communication between the Israelis and the Iranians. You have all sorts of local triggers for conflict. Having countries act on a hair trigger - where they can't afford to be second to strike - the potential for a miscalculation or a nuclear war through inadvertence is simply too high. - Dennis Ross

You could argue that war is always an irrational act, and yet many states enter into military conflict out of rational calculation or national interest or the stability or longevity of their regime. - William Kirby

You can potentially do approximately 100 billion times better than a current Pentium in terms of the energy required to do a calculation. - James Heath

Without the knowledge of the true number of the people, as a principle, the whole scope and use of keeping bills of birth and burials is impaired; wherefore by laborious conjectures and calculations to deduce the number of people from the births and burials, may be ingenious, but very preposterous. - William Petty

With Grid computing they can acquire the processing power they need when they need it and only for how long they need it to run their calculations. - Norberto Fueyo

With affection beaming in one eye, and calculation out of the other. - Charles Dickens