Arithmetic famous quotes

... preliminary accounting, banking and surveying (known as arithmetic, algebra and geometry).
-- Alan Watts

#Banking #Mathematics #Arithmetic

We cannot ... prove geometrical truths by arithmetic.
-- Aristotle

#Arithmetic #Prove

That arithmetic is the basest of all mental activities is proved by the fact that it is the only one that can be accomplished by a machine.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer

#Machines #Facts #Arithmetic

You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same time.
-- Bertrand Meyer

#Technology #Quality #Arithmetic

I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the human intellect...geometry should be ranked, not with arithmetic, which is purely aprioristic, but with mechanics.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss

#Mechanic #Conviction #Arithmetic

I always thought that I was okay with arithmetic.
-- Erskine Bowles

#Arithmetic #Okay

The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
-- Gottfried Leibniz

#Music #Pleasure #Arithmetic

I had a running compiler and nobody would touch it. They told me computers could only do arithmetic.
-- Grace Hopper

#Running #Computer #Arithmetic

A peculiarity of the higher arithmetic is the great difficulty which has often been experienced in proving simple general theorems which had been suggested quite naturally by numerical evidence.
-- Harold Davenport

#Simple #Mathematics #Arithmetic

Belief is no substitute for arithmetic.
-- Henry Spencer

#Science #Belief #Arithmetic

Arithmetic! Algebra! Geometry! Grandiose trinity! Luminous triangle! Whoever has not known you is without sense!
-- Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

#Triangles #Arithmetic #Trinity

Bill Frindall has done a bit of mental arithmetic with a calculator
-- John Arlott

#Done #Bills #Arithmetic

Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic.
-- John Ray

#Arithmetic #Algebra #Metaphysics

Very possible! Possible, indeed. Maybe even probable, which, as you know if you study your arithmetic,can happen more often than possible. In other words, probable is more possible than possible. - Bubo
-- Kathryn Lasky

#Study #Arithmetic

No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

#Men #Littles #Arithmetic

We have the most crude accounting tools. It's tragic because our accounts and our national arithmetic doesn't tell us the things that we need to know.
-- Susan George

#Tools #Needs #Arithmetic

your 90MHz Pentium won't have any trouble doing arithmetic (except for certain divisions).
-- Paul Dilascia

#Division #Trouble #Arithmetic

Arithmetic has began to totter.
-- Gottlob Frege

#Arithmetic

I am pretty good at arithmetic, and I know that the fight in front of us is a very, very steep fight. But we will continue to fight for every vote and every delegate we can get.
-- Jeff Merkley

#Fighting #Vote #Arithmetic

Arithmetic is the death of story.
-- Jincy Willett

#Stories #Arithmetic