I think it goes back to my high school days. In computer class the first assignment was to write a program to print the first 100 Fibonacci numbers. Instead I wrote a program that would steal passwords of students. My teacher gave me an A.
The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers.
Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable procures success to the weak and esteem to all.
There are simply more young people than there ever were. You get this feeling of strength. Also large numbers can be a drawback making it difficult to lose one's anonymity.
There is always strength in numbers. The more individuals or organizations that you can rally to your cause the better.
All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers so that the aim of exact science is to reduce the problems of nature to the determination of quantities by operations with numbers.
We're as clever as we think we are but we'll be a lot cleverer when we learn to use not just one brain but to pool huge numbers of brains. We're at a level technologically where we can share information and think collectively about our problems. We do it in science all the time - there's no reason why we can't do it in other endeavors.
Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is of course living in a state of sin.
Until we respect bin Laden we are going to die in numbers that are probably unnecessary.
It just happened that the course of the campaign went negative we actually went positive for a little over a week and you do the tracking of poll numbers and it hurt us. So the public responded to those type of ads.