People tend to think that numbers are quite objective, but numbers in economics are not like this. Some economists say they’re like sausages: you don’t know what they really are until you cut into them. – Ha-Joon Chang
Data allow your political judgments to be based on fact, to the extent that numbers describe realities. – Hans Rosling
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
I would like to have a ‘Lost’ clapper board with the numbers and the clock at the top. – Henry Ian Cusick
Darwin based his theory on generalizations that were strictly empirical. You can go out and see that organisms do vary, that variations are inherited, and that every organism is capable of increasing its numbers in sufficiently favorable circumstances. – George C. Williams
It’s really exciting to see all those people that exist in numbers online translate into tickets and then into faces, handshakes, pictures, stories. – Halsey
I worked with my parents on the stage in production numbers since I was 4, but I never really gave much thought to being a performer on my own until I was 12 or 13. – Helen Reddy
If you look at total numbers in the working and middle class, men still on average make more than women. – Hanna Rosin
As long as I can sing halfway decent, I’d rather sing than act. There’s nothing like being in good voice, feeling good, having good numbers to do and having a fine orchestra. – Howard Keel
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
Breast-feeding does not belong in the realm of facts and hard numbers; it is much too intimate and elemental. – Hanna Rosin
Numbers of snipes breed every summer in some moory ground on the verge of this parish. – Gilbert White
I’m not someone who plays hard to get. This whole thing about ‘Oh, let’s exchange numbers’ and then people wait four or five days before they call you? I don’t see the point. If you feel something, why would you let that pass? You only live once. – Heidi Klum
I realized that you could formulate theories about human and social phenomena in language and pictures and whatever you wanted on the computer, and you didn’t have to go through this straitjacket, adding a lot of numbers. – Herbert A. Simon
I don’t have a massive fan base. I don’t have Patton Oswalt numbers, but the fan base I have is incredibly generous, and of the 22,000 people who follow me on Twitter, I think almost all of those people participate. – Greg Behrendt
In the Led Zeppelin shows of the Sixties and Seventies, it was the same numbers every night, but they were constantly in a state of flux. If I played something good, really substantial, I’d stick it in again. – Jimmy Page
Evil is a sucker for solidity. It always goes for big numbers, for confident granite, for ideological purity, for drilled armies and balanced sheets. – Joseph Brodsky
I like to remember phone numbers because it keeps your brain active. If you don’t use it, you lose it. – Joan Collins
Here’s what a phone is: It’s a computer that has a little app on it that allows me to dial numbers and then talk to someone. – James Altucher
We have to keep in mind that it’s not just about the numbers of people who died; it’s also the manner which many of these victims met their deaths. – Iris Chang
The budget is not just a collection of numbers, but an expression of our values and aspirations. – Jacob Lew
Al Qaeda has significance beyond its numbers, frankly. And so for us, our 24-hour-a-day objective is to seek out those al Qaeda cells. And, as we seek them out, to target them and eliminate them. And we’re doing that 24 hours a day. – John R. Allen
There is a fantasy as old as the modern gay rights movement that if all our skins turned lavender overnight, the majority, confounded by our numbers and our diversity, and recognising a few of our faces, would at once let go of prejudice forevermore. – Ian Mckellen
I support immediate financial assistance to the newly elected Palestinian president. Now, I don’t know what those numbers will be, and I don’t know how it’s going to be framed. – Joe Biden
The reason I prefer working with established actors and stars is because they are more popular, and the film reaches out to more people and do well in terms of numbers, too. – Jacqueline Fernandez
