Number Quotes

“Although social relationships may be crippled by acrimonious minefields, manipulative psychological gambits or mysterious undercurrent power games, a number of social tell-tale flickers might help us in finding a lucid interpretation of hazy circumstances. ("Trompe le pied.")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Seven, Richie thought. That's the magic number. There has to be seven of us. That's the way it's supposed to be.”
― Stephen King, It

“You were born a winner, a warrior, one who defied the odds by surviving the most gruesome battle of them all - the race to the egg. And now that you are a giant, why do you even doubt victory against smaller numbers and wider margins? The only walls that exist are those you have placed in your mind. And whatever obstacles you conceive, exist only because you have forgotten what you have already achieved.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“We need to use numbers to direct our creativity efforts and use creativity to give life to our boring numbers.”
― Pooja Agnihotri, 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure

“There were fourteen steps exactly fourteen. But the top one was smaller, out of proportion, as if it had been added to avoid the evil number.”
― Stephen King, ’Salem’s Lot

“If there is one thing in mathematics that fascinates me more than anything else (and doubtless always has), it is neither ‘number’ nor ‘size,’ but always form.”
― Alexander Grothendieck

“Yeah, I know, the Mars thing. I've been meaning to talk to you about that. When did you get the idea it would be cute to carve my dad's cell-phone number on a rock in the middle of Syrtis Major? He hates it when people call me on his phone."
Kit gave Nita a resigned look. "Sorry," he said, "I couldn't resist.”
― Diane Duane, Wizards at War

“{Replying to G. H. Hardy's suggestion that the number of a taxi (1729) was 'dull', showing off his spontaneous mathematical genius}

No, it is a very interesting number; it is the smallest number expressible as a sum of two cubes in two different ways, the two ways being 13 + 123 and 93 + 103.”
― Srinivasa Ramanujan Aiyangar

“Infinity took me to places I had never been to before.”
― Steven Magee

“I have spent time with infinity.”
― Steven Magee

“Everyone is just a set of numbers that the government has access to. Humanity lies in the interpretation of those numbers.”
― Peter Tieryas, Cyber Shogun Revolution

“People are better than computers when finding patterns in images, but computers are better than people when finding
patterns in numbers.”
― Leland Wilkinson, The Grammar of Graphics. Statistics and Computing.

“The failure of the Disability and Workers Compensation systems can be associated with a massive number of suicides.”
― Steven Magee

“Until I received USA citizenship, I was self censoring a number of subjects that I would not make public.”
― Steven Magee

“Take a walk around a hospital counting the wireless radiation antenna systems and you will be shocked at how large the number is!”
― Steven Magee

“Insanity allows you to pass through infinity.”
― Steven Magee

“0 is not a number. 0 is a number container - in fact, the exclusive container for all non-zero numbers. It is the balance point of all of mathematics.”
― Thomas Stark, Castalia: The Citadel of Reason

“0 is in some sense a net result of all other numbers. We can think of it as the collection of all numbers, the Number Whole. The sum of all non-zero numbers is zero. 0 is an ontological thing... a monad, a thinking entity, an eternal mind.”
― Thomas Stark, Castalia: The Citadel of Reason

“The mainstream media were not reporting the number of missing people during the Florida hurricane Ian disaster.”
― Steven Magee

“Florida could not be honest with the world about the large number of dead that law enforcement was finding in the hurricane Ian disaster.”
― Steven Magee

“An accurate number for the missing people was unknown in the early days of the hurricane Ian Florida disaster.”
― Steven Magee

“The number of missing people reported to the government after hurricane Ian appeared to be a big Florida secret!”
― Steven Magee

“Is everyone that lied to world about the number of dead bodies found in the Florida hurricane Ian aftermath going to jail for fraud?”
― Steven Magee

“Do you believe the number of dead the Florida government is reporting?”
― Steven Magee

“Do you remember the time when the Florida government was not reporting the number of bodies found and the number of people missing during the hurricane Ian disaster?”
― Steven Magee

“I started crossing the number seven when handwriting it as people kept mistaking my sevens for ones. I thought that would clear up any confusion. That was until people started asking if my crossed sevens were now nines. So basically, I should avoid handwriting numbers if at all possible!”
― Stewart Stafford

“I have lost count of the number of police officers that have blatantly harassed me over the years!”
― Steven Magee

“You can never believe any death toll number the government releases.”
― Steven Magee

“Death is just a number to some people.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“Three of us?” says the woman on my left. “There are more than three of us. Everyone, say hi to Number Eleven.”

Sad whispers fill the air. “Hello, Number Eleven.”

“Hi, Number Eleven.”

“I’m sorry, Number Eleven.”
― Lilith Vincent, Pageant