The cows have ID numbers. And we should be able, throughout the investigation, which is ongoing as we speak, to be able to track that cow back to where it came from initially.

You end up with a machine which knows that by its mildest estimate it must have terrible enemies all around and within it, but it can’t find them. It therefore deduces that they are well-concealed...

When I read obituaries I always note the age of the deceased. Automatically I relate this figure to my own age. Four years to go, I think. Nine more years. Two years and I’m dead....

Prime numbers are divisible only by 1 and by themselves. They hold their place in the infinite series of natural numbers, squashed, like all numbers, between two others, but one step further than the rest....

Numbers have power. But not enough to supply all the energy for all your daily electrical needs. There’s just not enough strength in numbers for all that.

The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.

You know what happens at any magic show? When the magician says ‘look here, look here,’ the audience looks only there and nowhere else. And that’s exactly what happened at the earnings conference today.

Anything you try to quantify can be divided into any number of “anythings,” or become the thing – the unit – itself. And what is any number, itself, but just another unit of measurement? What...

I don’t get into heavy political numbers because I don’t find them lyrical.

However cozy things seemed, the facts of life were the same. You couldn’t escape death: It would get us all in the end.

I would play with numbers in a way that other kids would play with their friends.

I count everything. Even numbers, odd numbers, multiples of 10. I count the ticks of the clock i count the tocks of the clock I count the lines between the lines on a sheet of...

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

God made the integers; all the rest is the work of Man.

Sometimes I get depressed about my age. In March I’ll be 26. If man weren’t measured in numbers, but rather letters, I’d be turning Z. And then I’d be dead.

I think any show after the Super Bowl will have huge numbers.