Seven.” Switch to eight, and the majority of humanity was lost.

2 out of 4 numbers prefer being in the bottom 50 percent. Half of all lovers also prefer being on the bottom.

. . . we come astonishingly close to the mystical beliefs of Pythagoras and his followers who attempted to submit all of life to the sovereignty of numbers. Many of our psychologists, sociologists, economists and...

In this world one must have a name; it prevents confusion, even when it does not establish identity. Some, though, are known by numbers, which also seem inadequate distinctions.

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It is a mistake to hire huge numbers of people to get a complicated job done. Numbers will never compensate for talent in getting the right answer (two people who don’t know something are no...

I won’t tell you my name, but I will give you a number that describes me: 4. One a 1-10 scale, I love you like my numerical identity.

You don’t have to be a mathematician to have a feel for numbers.

Jack’s marketing books had been a part of her life for so long that she had ceased to register their presence, simply moving them from the couch to the coffee table, from the bed to...

I disliked numbers, and they didn’t think much of me either.

It is all about numbers. It is all about sequence. It’s the mathematical logic of being alive. If everything kept to its normal progression, we would live with the sadness–cry and then walk–but what really...

I think statistics go in one ear and out the other. All of us respond to stories more than numbers.

The bottom line is that we knew the numbers would be big, but we were shocked at just how big.

Luck is not some esoteric, godlike phenomenon. Luck is countable but undefinable. Luck easily can be explained as number of factors acting in a favour of a person. These factors’ behaviour could be statistically proved...

Do you know what the foundation of mathematics is?” I ask. “The foundation ofmathematics is numbers. If anyone asked me what makes me truly happy, I wouldsay: numbers. Snow and ice and numbers. And do...

I’m going to name my firstborn son 0123456789, because I want him to learn to count before he learns the alphabet. And my second son I’ll call 01, because I want him to get into...