Calculation Quotes

Time-space as commonly understood, in the sense of the distance measured between two time-points, is the result of time calculation.

Ten thousand pounds is the legal value of a negligently taken life, of a child or a parent. A cold and somewhat mean-spirited calculation: you would do better if you slipped on a paving-stone and broke a front tooth.

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

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.

The results of philanthropy are always beyond calculation.

Common sense is calculation applied to life.

All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation.

Like Americans, people outside America want fun, want an emotional compensation for the utilitarianism and calculation that mark the rest of their lives.

Indeed, as the above calculation indicates, to take full advantage of the memory space available, the ultimate laptop must turn all its matter into energy.

Calculation has its advantages, but no one likes naked calculation.

Even in modern art, artists have used methods based on calculation, inasmuch as these elements, alongside those of a more personal and emotional nature, give balance and harmony to any work of art.

I've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not.

Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.

Calculation never made a hero.

There will be no misgiving, no shrinking back, no calculation of overpowering odds, no terror of possible consequences, if you frankly accept the gift which God offers you tomorrow.

At a moderate calculation, among a million of persons inhabiting the metropolis, there are, at least, twenty-five thousand children who attend these schools, and cost their parents as many pounds sterling, per annum.

Most of the tasks we do are for humans. For example, a tax calculation is counting numbers so the government can pull money out from my wallet, but government consists of humans.

We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.

The circumstances of human society are too complicated to be submitted to the rigor of mathematical calculation.

Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.

However I am is however I am. When you see me onstage or in the press, there's not a lot of thought and calculation that goes into it.