Math Quotes

• I think the power of the platforms is outstripping the size of the audience. We can't charge $150 for a game. And when the best-selling game of all time has sold only 20 million copies at $60, do the math!

  

  Warren Spector
  • Time
  • Power
  • Think

• When I was growing up, I had lots of smart classmates that were girls, but none of us were really pushed into math or computers or anything like that. Girls took AP history and AP English and AP European history. And boys took calculus and physics.

  

  Aileen Lee
  • Up
  • History
  • Growing

• I want every math teacher to know math. I want every science teacher to have expertise in science. I want them to know how to inspire and engage young people.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Science
  • Teacher

• The companies that do well are the companies that use math.

  

  Kevin Plank
  • Math

• Most people that derail as leaders in the corporate world, it's not because they couldn't do the math and calculate return on investment properly. The issues are communication and understanding. All of what typically would've been called the 'soft stuff.' You have to be authentic. You have to be dialed into the soft stuff.

  

  Douglas Conant
  • People
  • World
  • Understanding

• A hit show takes Hollywood magic indeed, but it also takes a lot of math and science, plus the study of polls and trends to make and sell a TV show.

  

  Kristoffer Polaha
  • Science
  • Study
  • Magic

• I think of it as a good opportunity to let, in particular, school kids know that this job and other interesting jobs in science and engineering are open to anyone who works hard in school and gets a good education and studies math and science. And that it's not just for a select group of people.

  

  Ellen Ochoa
  • People
  • Good
  • School

• When it turned out that he could, Karou dropped to her knees to genuflect. "Gods of math and physics," she intoned, "I accept your gift of this clever fair-haired boy

  

  Laini Taylor
  • She
  • Boy
  • Boys

• When girls are asking themselves 'Who am I?' for the first time and they hear all this bad PR about math, they think, 'Well, whoever I am, I'm not somebody who likes math.'

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Math
  • Girls
  • PR

• In college, you had to worry about that math class or this exam that's coming up on Tuesday, but not in the professionals. You eat, sleep, and do everything related to your craft - and your craft is football. You can be at it from sunup to sundown.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Up
  • College
  • Football

• At the end of the day, when I am lying in bed and I know the chances of any of our theology being exactly right are a million to one, I need to know that God has things figured out, that if my math is wrong we are still going to be okay. And wonder is that feeling we get when we let go of our silly answers, our mapped out rules that we want God to follow. I don't think there is any better worship than wonder.

  

  Donald Miller
  • God
  • Feeling
  • Wonder

• People want sex education out of the schools. They believe sex education causes promiscuity. Hey, I took algebra, but I never do math.

  

  Elayne Boosler
  • People
  • Believe
  • Education

• The desire to explore thus marks out the mathematician. This is one of the forces making for the growth of mathematics. The mathematician enjoys what he already knows; he is eager for more knowledge.

  

  W. W. Sawyer
  • Knowledge
  • Education
  • Desire

• Some things in life are not pleasant but they have to be done. For instance, German and maths.

  

  Louise Rennison
  • Life
  • Done
  • German

• There's a big difference between knowing math and understanding why math models are important to a business.

  

  Larry Burns
  • Important
  • Why
  • Business

• In mathematics, if a pattern occurs, we can go on to ask, Why does it occur? What does it signify? And we can find answers to these questions. In fact, for every pattern that appears, a mathematician feels he ought to know why it appears.

  

  W. W. Sawyer
  • Why
  • Teaching
  • Answers

• Forcing your spouse to stop doing that bad habit that drives you crazy, or making your kid be better at math or at art or at swimming, or making your parents or your in-laws not be annoying in the way that they're annoying, these are sometimes doomed goals.

  

  Ian Bogost
  • Art
  • Bad
  • Parents

• I have a really small puppy, Georgie, and one of my favorite things is to take her to the park and play with her. I take two classes at middle school, math and chorus, and I love walking home with her after school.

  

  Emily Alyn Lind
  • School
  • Home
  • Small

• I took on the math-intensive art form of holography and, in my early 20s, traveled the world, living on university fellowships to pursue this esoteric craft. I didn't date much, really - perhaps because I didn't have many hormones, though I didn't know that at the time.

  

  Mary Lou Jepsen
  • Time
  • World
  • Art

• I'm weird: I like science and math but also like English as well.

  

  Jazz Jennings
  • Science
  • English
  • Weird

• We know that to compete for the jobs of the 21st century and thrive in a global economy, we need a growing, skilled and educated workforce, particularly in the areas of science, technology, engineering and math. Americans with bachelor's degrees have half the unemployment rate of those with a high school degree.

  

  Mark Pocan
  • School
  • High
  • Science

• I thought, well, you might see curves there, but that's just a bone - so even if I lose weight that's not going to change anything. That's how I look. That's my shape. Do the math.

  

  Christina Hendricks
  • Math

• Earlier today, President Bush said Kerry will be a tough and hard-charging opponent. That explains why Bush's nickname for Kerry is math.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Why
  • Today
  • Opponent

• In math, you're either right or you're wrong.

  

  Katherine Johnson
  • Math

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