No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

quote by Oscar Wilde
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We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.

quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Back in 1995, Bill Gates himself didn't understand that the internet was the direction computing was going.

quote by John Podhoretz
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All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation.

quote by Charles Baudelaire
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Power, Hunger

They say one and one is two.
What if I hide one every other interval?
One and one becomes three, then four, then nine,
Keeping a breezy countenance, while
Inside calculating, calculating, the numbers
Filming perception over, and they say hunger
But I'm the one to bestarve.
They worship at my feet, scrawny drunk bastards
Out of their minds.

poem by Eon Ezkiel
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It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

quote by J.R.R. Tolkien
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It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

quote by J.R.R. Tolkien
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Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs founded Apple Inc, which set the computing world on its ear with the Macintosh in 1984.

quote by Kevin Mitnick
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I have not proved that the universe is, in fact, a digital computer and that it's capable of performing universal computation, but it's plausible that it is.

quote by Seth Lloyd
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Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.

quote by Charles Baudelaire
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Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

quote by George S. Patton
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Blinking Like Ferrets

I've been too busy
the last two years to chat
with anyone in the office.
Today, however, I pause
at the pencil sharpener
while my co-workers
calculate and jot.
It makes no difference, you see,
if I remain silent until retirement
or if suddenly I start talking again.

All we must remember is
that we decay together,
that this charade
we give ourselves to
doesn't require that we speak,
that all we must do, really,
is calculate and jot.

If we calculate well,

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poem by Donal Mahoney
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We have lived through the flood time of fascism and of the nazism which ran its meteoric course at a cost to mankind in suffering and waste beyond all computation.

quote by Emily Greene Balch
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I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.

quote by Isaac Newton
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The Dam that Keele Built

This is the dam that Keele built.
This is the stream that brought the water to fill the dam that Keele built;
This is the Water and Sewer Brigade,
That measured the stream that brought the water to fill the dam that Keele built;

This is the Engineer by Trade --
Head of the Water and Sewer Brigade,
Who measured the stream that brought the water to fill the dam that Keele built;

These are the Calculations made
By the Eminent Engineer by Trade,
Head of the Water and Sewer Brigade,
Who measured the stream that brought the water to fill the dam that Keele built;

This is the scornful Mr Wade,
Who sneered at the Calculations made
By the Eminent Engineer by Trade,
Head of the Water and Sewer Brigade,
Who measured the stream that brought the water to fill the dam that Keele built;

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poem by Andrew Barton Paterson
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Price rate tag of bridegroom

Bargain finalized,
Price rate tag of bridegroom,
Dowry!

God created,
Mentally retarded children,
Computing errors of God!

poem by V.K. Kanniappan
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He who has a clean account, what fear of calculation does he have?

Persian proverbs
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I have discovered that there are two types of command interfaces in the world of computing: good interfaces and user interfaces.

quote by Daniel J. Bernstein
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I think there's a difference between a gamble and a calculated risk.

quote by Edmund H. North
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Do not compute the totality of your poultry population until all the manifestations of incubation have been entirely completed.

quote by William Jennings Bryan
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