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I would play with numbers in a way that other kids would play with their friends.
Daniel Tammet
Other
Other Kids
Way
Kids
Would
Friends
Play
Numbers
In my mind, numbers and words are far more than squiggles of ink on a page. They have form, color, texture and so on. They come alive to me, which is why as a young child I thought of them as my 'friends.'
Daniel Tammet
Me
Words
Mind
Thought
Young
Alive
More
Color
Come
Friends
Texture
Than
Child
Form
Young Child
Which
Them
Far
Page
Why
Ink
Numbers
Aesthetics - rather than reason - shapes our thought processes. First comes aesthetics, then logic. 'Thinking in Numbers' is not about an attempt to impress the reader but to include the reader, draw the reader in, by explaining my experiences - the beauty I feel in a prime number, for example.
Daniel Tammet
Thought
Example
First
Beauty
Impress
Thinking
Our
Draw
Logic
About
Rather
Shapes
Attempt
Feel
Prime
For Example
Reader
Aesthetic
Than
Experiences
Processes
Explaining
Then
Reason
Include
Number
Numbers
I recited Pi to 22,514 decimal points in five hours and nine minutes. I was able to do this because of weeks of study, aided by the unusual synaesthesic way my mind perceives numbers as complex multidimensional coloured and textured shapes.
Daniel Tammet
Mind
Aided
Nine
Way
Complex
Able
Minutes
Weeks
Points
Shapes
Coloured
Study
Hours
Unusual
Because
Five
Numbers
Someone who copies a Van Gogh does not therefore become Van Gogh, and the same would go for Mozart or anyone else who contributed something that was original. Certainly in the way that I described visualizing numbers in abstract, meaningful shapes.
Daniel Tammet
Become
Else
Way
Van
Van Gogh
Would
Visualizing
Someone
Something
Shapes
Abstract
Does
Go
Same
Gogh
Anyone
Anyone Else
Mozart
Meaningful
Certainly
Who
Original
Therefore
Copies
Numbers
Squaring numbers is a symmetrical process that I like very much. And when I divide one number by another, say, 13 divided by 97, I see a spiral rotating downwards in larger and larger loops that seem to warp and curve. The shapes coalesce into the right number. I never write anything down.
Daniel Tammet
Down
Say
See
Spiral
Seem
Divide
Divided
Write
Shapes
Never
Like
Another
Loops
Very
Anything
Curve
Process
Much
Warp
Rotating
Larger
Right
Number
Symmetrical
Numbers
In the years after World War I, blacks began to migrate to the North and its imagined freedoms in great numbers - 'Russian' came to mean a black who had rushed from the South.
Darryl Pinckney
War
Great
World
Black
Rushed
Russian
Blacks
Had
Freedoms
Came
Years
South
Began
North
After
Mean
Migrate
Who
World War
World War I
Imagined
Numbers
We often say if you have traction, lead with traction. Talk about specific customers, usage numbers, revenue metrics - anything like that that really is clearly explicit and factual. Get that out in front early.
Dave McClure
You
Say
Out
About
Factual
Lead
Clearly
Like
Talk
Revenue
Get
Front
Often
Anything
Explicit
Customers
Really
Usage
Specific
Early
Numbers
Me being me, I put the numbers from my hospital's website from my tumor sizes into a spreadsheet.
Dave deBronkart
Website
Me
Hospital
Put
Being
Tumor
Sizes
Numbers
I do know that homelessness is related to housing, and we haven't been producing housing in the numbers that our community requires - a lot of the escalating costs of housing is related to the fact that supply is way short than demand.
David Ige
Community
Related
Our
Our Community
Way
Costs
Fact
Supply
Demand
Know
Housing
Been
Lot
Escalating
Than
Short
Producing
Requires
Homelessness
Numbers
We can't be anti-everything - we need an energy plan that adds up. But there's a lack of numeracy in the public discussion of energy. Where people do use numbers, they select them to sound big and score points in arguments, rather than to aid thoughtful discussion.
David J. C. MacKay
People
Argument
Big
Energy
Aid
Adds
Thoughtful
Rather
Select
Points
Sound
Score
Up
Than
Discussion
Lack
Where
Public
Energy Plan
Them
Plan
Use
Need
Numbers
To have constructive conversations about the world's energy options, one needs to take a calm look at the numbers.
David J. C. MacKay
Needs
World
Calm
Energy
About
Constructive
Take
Look
Options
Conversations
Numbers
Where gays and lesbians are the best organized and most concentrated in numbers are states that President Clinton must carry in order to be reelected in 1996. Among the states are California, New York, Michigan, Oregon, Washington, Massachusetts, Illinois.
David Mixner
Best
President
President Clinton
Gays
States
Carry
Must
New
Concentrated
Massachusetts
Most
California
Clinton
Michigan
York
New York
Where
Order
Oregon
Lesbians
Organized
Illinois
Washington
Among
Numbers
I'm always crunching numbers, so my calculator watch is a must.
David Neeleman
Must
Calculator
Always
Watch
Numbers
Making changes in the fast food that makes up such a significant part of the American diet, even if the numbers aren't impressive, will have important health up sides.
David Perlmutter
Health
Food
Will
Important
Changes
Sides
Significant
Part
Makes
Making
Up
Impressive
American
Diet
Even
Fast
Fast Food
Numbers
Scientists and supercomputers have amplified our ability to look ahead. For decades, experts have warned us that human numbers, technology, hyper-consumption and a global economy are altering the chemical, geological, and biological properties of the biosphere.
David Suzuki
Technology
Our
Ability
Properties
Economy
Global
Global Economy
Look
Altering
Chemical
Geological
Scientists
Decades
Human
Experts
Us
Warned
Amplified
Biological
Numbers
When you convince sci-fi fans you've done something cool, you get them in huge numbers.
Dean Devlin
You
Fans
Something
Sci-Fi
Huge
Huge Numbers
Get
Done
Them
Convince
Cool
Numbers
People do not read first. First and foremost, they see color. Then they see numbers, then shape, and then, if you still have their attention and they understand what you put in front of them, then they will read.
Debbie Millman
You
People
Will
First
See
Color
Shape
Put
Attention
Read
Understand
Still
Foremost
Front
Them
Then
Numbers
People do have viewing patterns, and you disrupt those at your own peril. That's something that everybody learned after 1988. The numbers have gone down every year since that strike. Big time.
Dick Wolf
Time
You
People
Big
Year
Own
Gone
Down
Every
Everybody
Strike
Those
Something
Since
Peril
Learned
Big Time
After
Patterns
Your
Viewing
Disrupt
Numbers
At a time when many churches throughout the world are experiencing significant decreases in numbers, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - though small in comparison with many others - is one of the fastest growing churches in the world. As of September 2013, the Church has more than 15 million members around the world.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Time
World
Christ
Church
September
Others
Churches
Though
Members
Significant
More
Small
Throughout
Around
Saints
Than
Experiencing
Many
Growing
Comparison
Million
Fastest
Jesus
Jesus Christ
Numbers
Tarots tell different sides of the various personalities that exist in all of us. I find it fascinating how they combine names, images, and numbers. You don't need to be able to read them, or know their real meaning, to be charmed.
Domenico Dolce
You
Sides
Tell
Find
Able
Charmed
Various
Combine
Names
Know
Read
How
Real
Exist
Real Meaning
Different
Personalities
Them
Meaning
Us
Different Sides
Fascinating
Images
Need
Numbers
I can take any series of numbers and turn it into music, from Bach to bebop, Herbie Hancock to hip-hop.
Donald Byrd
Music
Bach
Take
Bebop
Hip-Hop
Any
Turn
Series
Numbers
When it comes to poetry, I think partly the numbers of people attempting to write poems is probably a result or the reaction to technology.
Donald Hall
Technology
People
Result
Think
Poems
Poetry
Write
Attempting
Reaction
Partly
Numbers
I know about having days off. They can be helpful sometimes, especially late in the year. It's just key to go out there and establish early, especially in this park where they can put up some crooked numbers early.
Dontrelle Willis
Key
Sometimes
Year
Late
Out
Some
Crooked
About
Having
Park
Put
Days
Know
Go
Off
Up
Just
Establish
Where
Helpful
Early
Numbers
So long as the opposing forces are at the outset approximately equal in numbers and moral and there are no flanks to turn, a long struggle for supremacy is inevitable.
Douglas Haig
Struggle
Long
Inevitable
Opposing
Approximately
Moral
Outset
Long Struggle
Equal
Supremacy
Forces
Turn
Numbers
We don't know what we're writing until it just comes out. We don't sit around crunching numbers.
Dustin Diamond
Writing
Sit
Out
Know
Until
Around
Just
Numbers
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