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"My list of basic tools is a partial answer to the question about what has changed: Over the past few years, large numbers of programmers have come to depend on elaborate tools to interface code with systems facilities."

"My list of basic tools is a partial answer to the question about what has changed: Over the past few years, large numbers of programmers have come to depend on elaborate tools to interface code with systems facilities."

Bjarne Stroustrup, Danish Scientist

Numbers, Past, Question, Tools

34

"Torture numbers, and they'll confess to anything."

"Torture numbers, and they'll confess to anything."

Gregg Easterbrook, American Author

15

"Early numbers are always wrong."

"Early numbers are always wrong."

Mary Cheney, American Celebrity

9

"Until we respect bin Laden, we are going to die in numbers that are probably unnecessary."

"Until we respect bin Laden, we are going to die in numbers that are probably unnecessary."

Michael Scheuer, American Public Servant

Numbers, Respect

6

"The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers."

"The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers."

Scott Adams, American Cartoonist

Numbers, Universe

6

"I didn't go to high school. I think that after you learn to read and write and do your numbers and flush the toilet behind yourself, you don't need no more schoolin'. You need to get out in the water and swim."

"I didn't go to high school. I think that after you learn to read and write and do your numbers and flush the toilet behind yourself, you don't need no more schoolin'. You need to get out in the water and swim."

Wilford Brimley, American Actor

Numbers, School, Water

6

"In numbers warmly pure and sweetly strong."

"In numbers warmly pure and sweetly strong."

William Collins, English Poet

5

"I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done."

"I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done."

Steven Wright, American Comedian

Numbers, Writing

5

"Numbers are the product of counting. Quantities are the product of measurement. This means that numbers can conceivably be accurate because there is a discontinuity between each integer and the next."

"Numbers are the product of counting. Quantities are the product of measurement. This means that numbers can conceivably be accurate because there is a discontinuity between each integer and the next."

Gregory Bateson, British Scientist

5

"Numbers of snipes breed every summer in some moory ground on the verge of this parish."

"Numbers of snipes breed every summer in some moory ground on the verge of this parish."

Gilbert White, English Scientist

Numbers, Summer

5

"It's - as opposed to tape where you have a magnetic tape that's excited by frequencies that you hit, digital was a process where musical sounds are transferred to numbers and stored as numbers."

"It's - as opposed to tape where you have a magnetic tape that's excited by frequencies that you hit, digital was a process where musical sounds are transferred to numbers and stored as numbers."

Herb Alpert, American Musician

4

"I was the dork in high school who sang musical numbers up and down the hallways."

"I was the dork in high school who sang musical numbers up and down the hallways."

Amy Adams, American Actress

Numbers, School

4

"I am woman, hear me roar, in numbers too big to ignore, and I know too much to go back and pretend."

"I am woman, hear me roar, in numbers too big to ignore, and I know too much to go back and pretend."

Helen Reddy, Australian Actress

4

"It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded."

"It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded."

Isaac Newton, English Mathematician

Numbers, Weight

4

"We rest our case on the production numbers."

"We rest our case on the production numbers."

Mel Brooks, American Comedian

Numbers, Production, Rest

4

"The Congressman ascertained that the consulate in Havana had numbers to feed the pigs."

"The Congressman ascertained that the consulate in Havana had numbers to feed the pigs."

Erich Leinsdorf, Austrian Celebrity

4

"When two elements combine and form more than one compound, the masses of one element that react with a fixed mass of the other are in the ratio of small whole numbers."

"When two elements combine and form more than one compound, the masses of one element that react with a fixed mass of the other are in the ratio of small whole numbers."

Humphry Davy, British Scientist

4

"We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers."

"We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers."

Galileo Galilei, Italian Scientist

4

"As experimentation becomes more complex, the need for the co-operation in it of technical elements from outside becomes greater and the modern laboratory tends increasingly to resemble the factory and to employ in its service increasing numbers of purely routine workers."

"As experimentation becomes more complex, the need for the co-operation in it of technical elements from outside becomes greater and the modern laboratory tends increasingly to resemble the factory and to employ in its service increasing numbers of purely routine workers."

John Desmond Bernal, Irish Scientist

Numbers, Routine, Service, Workers

3

"We find them smaller and fainter, in constantly increasing numbers, and we know that we are reaching into space, farther and farther, until, with the faintest nebulae that can be detected with the greatest telescopes, we arrive at the frontier of the known universe."

"We find them smaller and fainter, in constantly increasing numbers, and we know that we are reaching into space, farther and farther, until, with the faintest nebulae that can be detected with the greatest telescopes, we arrive at the frontier of the known universe."

Edwin Powell Hubble, American Scientist

Numbers, Space, Universe

3

"We don't know what we're writing until it just comes out. We don't sit around crunching numbers."

"We don't know what we're writing until it just comes out. We don't sit around crunching numbers."

Dustin Diamond, American Actor

Numbers, Writing

3

"There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else."

"There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else."

James Thurber, American Comedian

Numbers, Safety

3

"Around 1967 Dan Bobrow wrote a program to do algebra problems based on symbols rather than numbers."

"Around 1967 Dan Bobrow wrote a program to do algebra problems based on symbols rather than numbers."

Marvin Minsky, American Scientist

Numbers, Problems

2

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