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There's a presumption that somehow you calculate beforehand whether something is going to be good politically or not. I simply don't.

~Bob Brown

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The hazards posed by Near-Earth Asteroids are assessed by Sentry, a computer system developed by the Near-Earth Objects Group at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. The software factors together a cosmic rock's coordinates, distance, velocity, and gravitational influences to calculate its trajectory.

~Brendan I. Koerner

Topics: Calculate Computer Coordinate Cosmic Developed Distance Factors Gravitational Group Hazards Influences Jet Laboratory Nasa Objects Rock Software System Together Trajectory Velocity

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Before the discovery of quantum mechanics, the framework of physics was this: If you tell me how things are now, I can then use the laws of physics to calculate, and hence predict, how things will be later.

~Brian Greene

Topics: Before Calculate Discovery Framework Hence How Later Laws Me Mechanics Now Physics Predict Quantum Quantum Mechanics Tell Then Things Use Will You I Can

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Whenever you're at a poker table - and you're betting all of your chips - you're worried, you're scared. Is it the right play? Have I thought through all the angles? That's what stinks about life and business in general. If I had to calculate 100% certainty on every deal I did, I literally would do zero deals.

~Chip Gaines

Topics: About Angles Betting Business Calculate Certainty Chips Deal Deals Did Every General Had Life Literally Play Poker Right Scared Stinks Table Thought Through Whenever Worried Would You Your Zero

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Every math curriculum in the world is based on the idea of hand-calculating, and most of what you're teaching is how to calculate. And I think the resistance to this is very variable.

~Conrad Wolfram

Topics: Based Calculate Curriculum Every How Idea Math Most Resistance Teaching Think Variable Very World You I Think

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When I was at Berkeley, the framework of quantum field theory could calculate the dynamics of electromagnetism. It could roughly describe the motion of the weak nuclear force, radiation. But it hit a brick wall with the strong interaction, the binding force.

~David Gross

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Loss prevention experts report that professional shoplifters calculate the value of the merchandise they are stealing to keep it under the threshold amount to avoid serious penalties and prosecution as a felony.

~David Ige

Topics: Amount Avoid Calculate Experts Keep Loss Merchandise Penalties Prevention Professional Prosecution Report Serious Stealing Threshold Value

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While Congress did not, to my knowledge, calculate aggregate dollar values for the nationwide effects of racial discrimination in 1964, in 1994 it did rely on evidence of the harms caused by domestic violence and sexual assault, citing annual costs of $3 billion in 1990 and $5 to $10 billion in 1993.

~David Souter

Topics: Aggregate Annual Assault Billion Calculate Caused Citing Congress Costs Did Discrimination Dollar Domestic Effects Evidence Knowledge Nationwide Racial Rely Sexual Values Violence While

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We don't know what we're doing. We don't have a plan. We don't sit down and calculate it.

~Dean Ween

Topics: Calculate Doing Down Know Plan Sit

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Football is a sport of paradox. It requires reaction, not reflection. Yet you must use your mind to calculate, to anticipate - to think and not think at the same time.

~Dhani Jones

Topics: Anticipate Calculate Football Mind Must Paradox Reaction Reflection Requires Same Same Time Sport Think Time Use You Your

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