Squareness Calculation Quotes

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

Failure is Central to engineering. Every single calculation that an engineer makes is a failure calculation. ~ Henry Petroski

Don't calculate the world." This world is untruthful. Don't stop to do calculation, just keep on moving. ~ Dada Bhagwan

Le Verrier - without leaving his study, without even looking at the sky - had found the unknown planet [Neptune] solely by mathematical calculation, and, as it were, touched it with the tip of his pen! ~ Camille Flammarion

Each time we add an extra piece to the calculation, we find that the calculation time required to solve it doubles. Very soon the total time required becomes stupendously large, and even the fastest computers on Earth can be easily defeated. These are what we mean by 'hard' problems.5 ~ Anonymous

There was alienation in the standing consciousness that his squareness would not fit the round hole that had been prepared for him. ~ Thomas Hardy

Absence of Quality is the essence of squareness. ~ Robert M. Pirsig

The best calculation is the absence of calculation. Once you have attained a certain level of recognition, others generally figure that when you do something, it's for an intelligent reason. So it's really foolish to plot out your movements too carefully in advance. You're better off acting capriciously. ~ Pablo Picasso

In a world in which the price of calculation continues to decrease rapidly, but the price of theorem proving continues to hold steady or increase, elementary economics indicates that we ought to spend a larger and larger fraction of our time on calculation. ~ John Tukey

Squareness is such a uniquely intellectual disease. ~ Robert M. Pirsig

Monetary calculation is not the calculation, and certainly not the measurement, of value. Its basis is the comparison of the more important and the less important. It is an ordering according to rank, an act of grading (Cuhel), and not an act of measuring. It was a mistake to search for a measure of the value of goods. In the last analysis, economic calculation does not rest on the measurement of values, but on their arrangement in an order of rank. ~ Ludwig Von Mises

Never make a calculation until you know the answer. Make an estimate before every calculation, try a simple physical argument (symmetry! invariance! conservation!) before every derivation, guess the answer to every paradox and puzzle. Courage: No one else needs to know what the guess is. Therefore make it quickly, by instinct. A right guess reinforces this instinct. A wrong guess brings the refreshment of surprise. In either case life as a spacetime expert, however long, is more fun! ~ John Archibald Wheeler

Grace comes particularly where calculation has come to an end. ~ Craig Keen

The atonement is a miracle, and miracles are rather to be accepted by faith than measured by calculation. ~ Anonymous

Ilm Ne Mujh Se Kaha Ishq Hai Diwana-Pan
Ishq Ne Mujh Se Kaha Ilm Hai Takhmeen-o-Zan

Knowledge said to me, Love is madness;
Love said to me, Knowledge is calculation

Band-e-Takhmeen-o-Zan! Kirm-e-Kitabi Na Ban
Ishq Sarapa Huzoor, Ilm Sarapa Hijab

O slave of calculation, do not be a bookworm!
Love is Presence entire, Knowledge nothing but a Veil. ~ Muhammad Iqbal

Self-interest and rational calculation can thus look like common sense, but there are other ways of understanding human motivations. ~ Derek Wall

It takes calculation to win a duel against a reptile, and you've always been impatient. ~ Jim Butcher

I base my calculation on the expectation that luck will be against me. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

If one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better. ~ Jane Austen

Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice. ~ Joseph Joubert

Evolution, or its driving engine natural selection, has no foresight. In every generation within every species, the individuals best equipped to survive and reproduce contribute more than their fair share of genes to the next generation. The consequence, blind as it is, is the nearest approach to foresight that nature permits. [...] It is always tinkering: here shrinking a bit, there expanding a bit, constantly adjusting, putting on and taking off, optimising immediate reproductive success. Survival in future centuries doesn't enter into the calculation, for the good reason that it isn't really a calculation at all. It all happens automatically, as some genes survive in the gene pool and others don't. ~ Richard Dawkins

The incident, played out for, it seemed, a few infinitely elastic seconds, caused a certain calculation to go through the boy's head. ~ Neel Mukherjee

Is a feeling, not a calculation. It is perception. One ~ Simon Sinek

His [Thomas Edison] method was inefficient in the extreme, for an immense ground had to be covered to get anything at all unless blind chance intervened and, at first, I was almost a sorry witness of his doings, knowing that just a little theory and calculation would have saved him 90 per cent of the labor. But he had a veritable contempt for book learning and mathematical knowledge, trusting himself entirely to his inventor's instinct and practical American sense. In view of this, the truly prodigious amount of his actual accomplishments is little short of a miracle. ~ Nikola Tesla

The success of any society must be judged by the life of its worst off. No other calculation will do. ~ Victor LaValle

God does not wait for us to go to him, but it is he who moves toward us, without calculation, without quantification. ~ Pope Francis

Leibniz thought that if we had a sufficiently logical notation, dispute and confusion would cease, and men would sit together and resolve their disputes by calculation. ~ Simon Blackburn

In a body [like Congress] where there are more than one hundred talking lawyers, you can make no calculation upon the termination of any debate. ~ Franklin Pierce

Thrift is not a separate project, calculation, or analysis. This quality can be manifested in each of our actions. Thrift is our mindful life. ~ Ivan Kuznietsov

Darling, we're all whores under the skin, whether we give ourselves by calculation or by desire. It's just that some of us demand a higher price than others. ~ Virginia Henley

Chess is 99 percent calculation. ~ Andrew Soltis

...an honest life... is the path of least resistance, the existence that required the least calculation. ~ Jose Sevilla Ho

What music is to the heart, mathematics is to the mind. ~ Amit Kalantri

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

You have no idea, how much poetry there is in the calculation of a table of logarithms! ~ Carl Friedrich Gauss

Probability theory is nothing more than common sense reduced to calculation. -1819 ~ Pierre-Simon Laplace

CHAPTER VII Geometrical Details. - Calculation of the Capacity of the Balloon. - The Double Receptacle. - The Covering. - The Car. - The Mysterious Apparatus. - The Provisions and Stores. - The Final Summing up. ~ Jules Verne

The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through all eternity. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

In a hypothetical, extremely simple Cloud Ark consisting of only two arklets, only one calculation needed to be performed: namely, the calculation that answered the question "Will Arklet 1 bang into Arklet 2 if both stay on their current courses?" In a three-arklet cloud, it was also necessary to figure out whether Arklet 1 would collide with Arklet 3, and whether 2 and 3 were going to collide. So, that was a total of three calculations. If the cloud expanded to four arklets, six calculations were needed, and so on. In mathematical terms these were known as triangular numbers, a kind of binomial coefficient, but the bottom line was that the number of calculations went up rapidly with the number of arklets in the cloud. ~ Neal Stephenson

Repetition plus translation plus generalization results, with the correct calculation, in clarification. If there is such a thing as 'progress in religion', it can only manifest itself as increasing explicitness. ~ Peter Sloterdijk

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

Like when I saw a spider, I behaved as if it were the size of a horse with the cold calculation of an assassin. ~ Jennifer L. Armentrout

Many of Ronald A. Fisher's ideas were solutions to computational problems caused by the limitations of the era's desk calculators. ~ Sharon Bertsch McGrayne

Now this foreknowledge cannot be elicited from spirits; it cannot be obtained inductively from experience, nor by any deductive calculation. ~ Sun Tzu

Cathedrals are an unassailable witness to human passion. Using what demented calculation could an animal build such places? I think we know. An animal with a gorgeous genius for hope. ~ Lionel Tiger

Coldness etched his gaze.
Aloofness whispered from his posture.
Calculation radiated from his every pore.
I'd never been so intimidated or so intimately challenged. ~ Pepper Winters

We have devalued the singular human capacity to see things whole in all their psychic, emotional and moral dimensions, and we have replaced this with faith in the powers of technical calculation. ~ Neil Postman

A 99% Value-at-Risk calculation does not evaluate what happens in the last one percent ... This is like an airbag that works all the time, except when you have a car accident. ~ David Einhorn

Art forms that appeal to [leftists] tend to focus on ... defeat and despair ... as if there were no hope of accomplishing anything through rational calculation. ~ Theodore J. Kaczynski

Don't you think he may be pursuing an ideal that is hidden in a cloud of unknowing - like an astronomer looking for a star that only a mathematical calculation tells him exists? ~ W. Somerset Maugham

The most fertile districts of the habitable globe are now actually cultivated by men for animals, at a delay and waste of aliment absolutely incapable of calculation ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

The fact that there are so many weak, poor and boring stories and novels written and published in America has been ascribed by our rebels to the horrible squareness of our institutions, the idiocy of power, the debasement of sexual instincts, and the failure of writers to be alienated enough. The poems and novels of these same rebellious spirits, and their theoretical statements, are grimy and gritty and very boring too, besides being nonsensical, and it is evident by now that polymorphous sexuality and vehement declarations of alienation are not going to produce great works of art either. ~ Saul Bellow

This love for everyday things,
part natural from the wide eye of Infancy,
part a literary calculation ~ Billy Collins

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

What economic calculation requires is a monetary system whose functioning is not sabotaged by government interference. ~ Ludwig Von Mises

I made a quick calculation: a 180-pound man, falling thirty feet under an acceleration of 32.2 feet per second square - I drew the shade and turned away from the window and closed my eyes. ~ Karl Iagnemma

The computer is incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid.
Man is unbelievably slow, inaccurate, and brilliant.
The marriage of the two is a force beyond calculation. ~ Waseem Latif

The ways of the Antichrist are slow and tortuous. He arrives when we do not expect him: not because the calculation suggested by the apostle was mistaken, but because we have not learned the art. ~ Umberto Eco

Revenge is a business of calculation, best served cold. Rescue holds more of sacrifice, suicidal danger, and all manner of other madness that should have me running in the opposite direction. ~ Mark Lawrence

I cannot bear to think that our young men are merely living four years in a country club and spending their lives wholly in a spirit of calculation and snobbishness. ~ John Grier Hibben

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

One essential object is to choose that arrangement which shall tend to reduce to a minimum the time necessary for completing the calculation. ~ Ada Lovelace

I looked down at the Nightside, spread out before me like the most seductive whore in the world. Promising everything and anytthing, her wide smile and inviting eyes hiding the cold calculation in her heart. ~ Simon R. Green

at a first glance, natural dyes appear to be more expensive than those used for petroleum-derived synthetics, simply because of the higher cost to farm raw materials. But there are "externalities" not included in synthetic's calculation -environmentally damaging ones like fracking and oil spills. ~ Dana Thomas

We are perhaps not far removed from the time when we shall be able to submit the bulk of chemical phenomena to calculation. ~ Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac

The calculation of ignorance is too great for any calculator, only someone who has experienced bliss and genuine ignorance can determine valid or not, not those whom of which scrutinize it ~ Aaron Ozee

It seems to me, that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic, or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be much less frequent. ~ Benjamin Franklin

I always work better when I do not reason, when no question of right or wrong enter in,-when my pulse quickens to the form before me without hesitation nor calculation. ~ Edward Weston

It is now established by verifiable evidence that religion stultifies the brain and is the great obstacle in the path of intellectual progress.
The more religious a person is, the more he is steeped in ignorance and superstition, the less is his sense of moral responsibility. The more intelligent a person, the less religious he is. There is an old saying that 'where there are three scientists, there are two atheists.'
The countries whose governments are dominated by religion and religious institutions are the most backward. By the same token, the countries whose people are the most enlightened, and whose governments are based upon the principle of secularism - the separation of church and state - are the most progressive.
And let me tell you: When man is intellectually free, the progress he will make is beyond calculation. ~ Joseph Lewis

Bureaucracy develops the more perfectly, the more it is 'dehumanized', the more completely it succeeds in eliminating from business love, hatred, and all purely personal, irrational, and emotional elements which escape calculation. ~ Max Weber

I can show you that the art of calculation has to do with odd and even numbers in their numerical relations to themselves and to each other. ~ Plato

It was so simple to paint things as I saw them; to put without special calculation a red close to a blue. ~ Paul Gauguin

Many of the opposition [to the new Federal Constitution] wish to take from Congress the power of internal taxation. Calculation has convinced me that this would be very mischievous. ~ Thomas Jefferson

As if one killed by calculation! A person kills only from an impulse that springs from his blood and sinews, from the vestiges of ancient struggles, from the need to live and the joy of being strong. ~ Emile Zola

Small businesses have made the call that to stay alive, health care isn't something they can provide. I think it's a tragic calculation. ~ Peter Lee

I do think there are very few extreme right-wing gay Republicans. Although it depends how you define "extreme right-wing." They're making a political calculation. ~ Kirby Dick

And yet in her eyes there was something unreadable, something that did not want to be read, the determined blankness that in predator animals conceals hostile calculation and in prey forms part of an overwhelming effort to seem to have disappeared. ~ Michael Chabon

The infinite, absolute character of Virtue has passed into a finite, conditional one; it is no longer a worship of the Beautiful and Good; but a calculation of the Profitable. ~ Thomas Carlyle

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. ~ Yukihiro Matsumoto

He was working fast, yet thinking went slow enough. He knew why now. He knew now that thinking went slow and smooth with calculation, as oil is spread slowly upon a surface above a brewing storm. ~ William Faulkner

One of the things Maxwell learned from his reading was the fallibility of men's efforts to understand the world. All of the great scientists had made mistakes. He was acutely aware of his own tendency to make errors in calculation. ~ Basil Mahon

Height, weight and body mass index.' Gene was skimming ahead. 'Can't you do the calculation yourself?' 'That's the purpose of the question,' I said. 'Checking they can do basic arithmetic. I don't want a partner who's mathematically illiterate. ~ Graeme Simsion

Nature seems to have poured forth her riches so without calculation, merely to mark the fullness of her joy. ~ Margaret Fuller

He toke his gaze off Miranda long enough to size up kat. Miranda could see the calculation in his face:human, female,harmless. "hello".
he gave drew a disdainful glance and, after that, barely allotted him the notice he would give a troublesome insect. ~ Dianne Sylvan

Nearly always, so as to live at peace with ourselves, we disguise our own impotence and weakness as calculation and policy; it is our way of placating that half of our being which is in a sense a spectator of the other. ~ Benjamin Constant

Common sense is calculation applied to life. ~ Henri Frederic Amiel

It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession. ~ Samuel Johnson

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. ~ Seth Lloyd

And it was only as he rose from the bed, his body illuminated by the colored lights of the city, that I caught the glint of calculation behind his eyes, a cold, blank set to his face. His shadow self, and not a nice one. ~ Jennifer Egan

To a degree which is difficult to determine, the esoteric impulse in twentieth-century music, literature and the arts reflects calculation. It looks to the flattery of academic and hermeneutic notice. Reciprocally, the academy turns towards that which appears to require its exegetic, cryptographic skills. ~ George Steiner

To be spontaneous means not to act out of the past, because out of the past is all cunningness, cleverness, calculation, arithmetic. ~ Rajneesh

Surely love has nothing to do with the mind, it is not the product of the mind; love is entirely independent of calculation, of thought. ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

Cold calculation, random spots of color, mathematically exact construction (clearly shown or concealed), drawing that is now silent and now strident ... Is this not form? ~ Giacomo Puccini

In any crass political calculation, drilling for oil will always win more votes than putting a price on carbon. But if I recall what I was taught in fifth-grade American government class, we elect presidents to do more than crass political calculations. ~ Jeff Goodell

He Who Would Live Forever had done an instantaneous back-of-the-envelope calculation and decided that the vicinity of the Chevrolet Suburban was a better strategic alternative than anyplace anywhere near that whitish sandy road above which a gigantic terror-chattering rattlesnake now thrashed in the grip of his boss gone berserk. ~ Tom Wolfe

Let your beauty manifest itself
without talking and calculation.​
You are silent. It says for you: I am.
And comes in meaning thousandfold​,
comes at long last over everyone. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke

A state-of-the-art calculation requires 100 hours of CPU time on the state-of-the-art computer, independent of the decade. ~ Edward Teller

His very person and appearance were such as to strike the attention of the most casual observer. In height he was rather over six feet, and so excessively lean that he seemed to be considerably taller. His eyes were sharp and piercing, save during those intervals of torpor to which I have alluded; and his thin, hawk-like nose gave his whole expression an air of alertness and decision. His chin, too, had the prominence and squareness which mark the man of determination. His hands were invariably blotted with ink and stained with chemicals, yet he was possessed of extraordinary delicacy of touch, as I frequently had occasion to observe when I watched him manipulating his fragile philosophical instruments. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

My errors have been errors of calculation and judging men, not in appreciating the true nature of truth and ahimsa or in their application. ~ Mahatma Gandhi