Quotes tagged ‘Numbers’

“The numbers are the key to everything.”

— Ryne Douglas Pearson, Juliet Snowden, Stiles White, John Koestler, Nicolas Cage, imdb.com

“If we're right, people lose homes. People lose jobs. People lose retirement savings, people lose pensions. You know what I hate about fucking banking? It reduces people to numbers. Here's a number—every 1% unemployment goes up, 40,000 people die, did you know that?”

— Adam McKay, Charles Randolph, Ben Rickert, Brad Pitt, imdb.com

“Frankie Carbone: I could never hit that number. [unintelligible] Tommy DeVito: Frankie, Frankie, Frankie. What the fuck does 528 have to do with 460? I can't believe this guy. Fuckin' 528 ain't even close to 460. Now what the fuck does that got to do with anything? Frankie Carbone: Eh, I been playin…”

— Nicholas Pileggi, Martin Scorsese, Tommy DeVito, Joe Pesci, imdb.com

“These numbers mean dial it up. Otherwise you're like the French radical watching the crowd run by and saying, 'There go my people. I must find out where they're going so I can lead them.'”

— Aaron Sorkin, Joey Lucas, Marlee Matlin, imdb.com

“Some people believe that numbers are used by the universe to contact us because unlike language, they have a universal meaning.”

— Emily Madriga, thoughtcatalog.com

“All right, kids, I gotta get to work. If I don't input those numbers...it doesn't make much of a difference.”

— Jeff Astroff, Mike Sikowitz, Chandler Muriel Bing, Matthew Perry, imdb.com

“It is commonly believed that anyone who tabulates numbers is a statistician. This is like believing that anyone who owns a scalpel is a surgeon”

— Robert Hooke, amazon.com

“Why did 10 die? He was in the middle of 9/11”

— jan_boro, reddit.com

“What is 6.9? A good thing ruined by a period.”

— ProdigyOfKings, reddit.com

“19 and 20 had a fight 21”

— lobsman12, reddit.com

“Look, let me put it this way: with me, you’re number one and there isn’t even a number two.”

— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com

“I don’t buy that we’re in a post-fact world. People talk about alternate facts, they talk about fake news and yet at the end of the day the facts, particularly the numbers, they are what they are. They tell us about the past. They give us an ability to, ourselves, judge the forecast that we all have…”

— Steve Ballmer, geekwire.com

“Money is numbers and numbers never end. If it takes money to be happy, your search for happiness will never end.”

— Bob Marley, books.google.com

“Just an FYI: Roman Numerals have no zero because it was not yet invented, allowing year 2000 to be written efficiently as MM.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson, twitter.com

“Numbers are important. Number of users is important. So are lots of other things. Different services create value in different ways. Trust your gut as much (or more) than the numbers. Figure out what matters and build something good.”

— Evan Williams, medium.com