Yoko Ogawa  - Quotes

 Soon after I began working for the Professor, I realized that he talked about numbers whenever he was unsure of what to say or do. Numbers were also his way of reaching out to the world. They were safe, a source of comfort. 

Tags: mathematics   numbers   society     


Alysha Speer  - Quotes

 Time to go run the calories away, do away with all the numbers stalking you, throw out the bad habits and excess weight. 

Tags: calories   numbers   pounds   weight     
Jorge Luis Borges  - Quotes

 He told me that in 1886 he had invented an original system of numbering and that in a very few days he had gone beyond the twenty-four-thousand mark. He had not written it down, since anything he thought of once would never be lost to him. His first stimulus was, I think, his discomfort at the fact that the famous thirty-three gauchos of Uruguayan history should require two signs and two words, in place of a single word and a single sign. He then applied this absurd principle to the other numbers. In place of seven thousand thirteen he would say (for example) Maximo P 

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Don DeLillo  - Quotes

 When I read obituaries I always note the age of the deceased. Automatically I relate this figure to my own age. Four years to go, I think. Nine more years. Two years and I'm dead. The power of numbers is never more evident than when we use them to speculate on the time of our dying. 

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