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  • Nature hates calculators.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.99, Coyote Canyon Press
  • A good counter needs no calculator.

    Laozi, Bi Wang, Paul J. Lin (1977). “A translation of Lao Tzu's Tao te ching and Wang Pi's commentary”, Univ of Michigan Center for chinese
  • First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII — and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we've realized it's a brochure.

  • My fellow nerds and I will retire to the nerdery with our calculators.

    "Fictional character: Richard Hayden". "Tommy Boy", www.imdb.com. 1995.
  • Before you open the lunch menu or order that cheeseburger or consider eating the cake with the frosting intact, haul out the psychic calculator and start tinkering with the budget.

    Order   Psychics   Cake  
  • Joining the Liberal Party was a no-brainer for me... And when you are a young man, you don't get a calculator out saying, 'Am I going to get to power?' You get propelled forward by idealism.

    Party   Men   Joining  
  • One who scorns the power of intuition will never rise above the ranks of journeyman calculator.

  • Sundance Supply has a neat material calculator and free greenhouse designs-Great Prices!

  • There's like ten minutes when it's like, 'Okay, wait, who is this guy again?' And then, you know, I just put on the calculator watch and the glasses, and just be all, you know, inappropriate. And then it just works out fine.

  • I guess personally I really like "Take on Me" by Aha. I think it just defines the 80s and how insane it was and like neon and like calculator watches and that whole thing.

    Source: collider.com
  • A good calculator does not need artificial aids.

    Math   Doe   Needs  
  • I sold my most valuable possession, but I knew that because I worked at Hewlett Packard, I could buy the next model calculator the very next month for a lower price than I sold the older one for!

    Next   Months   Economy  
  • Numbers have life; they’re not just symbols on paper.

    Life   Numbers   Paper  
  • Yet we can be sure that whatever fictions exist in Wall Street bookkeeping, the earth is a faithful scribe, a faultless calculator, a superb bookkeeper; we will be held responsible for every bit of our economic folly.

  • So when you do board, the first class people, they're sitting there. A lot of them are working as your boarding. They have computers out and calculators. They're looking up at you like, Hey, we're making money right now!

    Class   People   Boards  
  • Value investing is at its core the marriage of a contrarian streak and a calculator.

  • Calculators can only calculate - they cannot do mathematics.

    John A. Van de Walle (1994). “Elementary School Mathematics: Teaching Developmentally”, Longman Publishing Group
  • But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.

    Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
  • In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms and quicksands and thousand-and-one items to be allowed for, that a man has to live, if he would not founder and go to the bottom and not make his port at all, by dead reckoning, and he must be a great calculator indeed who succeeds. Simplify, simplify.

    Life   Creativity   Men  
    Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.144
  • I am so old, I entered engineering school with a slide rule. And I left engineering school with a calculator. I can still use a slide rule but it's not a skill you especially need anymore.

    "Bill Nye: Cell phones aren't making us dumb". Interview with Wilson Rothman, www.nbcnews.com. March 23, 2010.
  • Get your calculators out, this will be fun!

  • I am not personally a parent. But I do have two godchildren and am expecting a third. I am naturally concerned for their future. If I ruled the world you could bet your boots that none of them would ever set their eyes on any such contraptions as digital clocks and pocket calculators. But alas, I do not rule the world and that, I am afraid, is the story of my life - always a godmother, never a God.

    Eye   Two   Parent  
    Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.104, Vintage
  • In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds. The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators. The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.

  • Scorecards are common in the political process, but they are inappropriate in the judicial process. The most important tools in the judicial confirmation process are not litmus paper and a calculator.

    "Senate Confirmation Hearings - Day 1". www.nytimes.com. January 9, 2006.
  • I've always said to myself that if a little pocket calculator can do it why shouldn't I?

    Roald Dahl (1996). “Matilda”, Puffin
  • Bill Frindall has done a bit of mental arithmetic with a calculator

    Afl   Done   Bills  
  • It is known, to the force of a single pound weight, what the engine will do; but, not all the calculators of the National Debt can tell me the capacity for good or evil, for love or hatred, for patriotism or discontent, for the decomposition of virtue into vice, or the reverse.

    Evil   Hatred   Vices  
    Charles Dickens (2001). “Hard Times”, p.52, Courier Corporation
  • I use minimal software to make my music - a wav editor and a calculator for my beats to make sure everything falls on mathematical precision. If you were just mapping this out visually, it works by math. I guess it's slightly engineering influenced.

    Fall   Math   Engineering  
    Source: pitchfork.com
  • Should I not be proud, when for twenty years I have had to admit to myself that the great Newton and all the mathematicians and noble calculators along with him were involved in a decisive error with respect to the doctrine of color, and that I among millions was the only one who knew what was right in this great subject of nature?

    Errors   Color   Years  
    Letter to Eckermann, December 30, 1823.
  • Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Our being is descending into us from we know not whence. The most exact calculator has noprescience that somewhat incalculable may not balk the very next moment. I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine.

    God   Men   Events  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1369, Delphi Classics
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