A Quote by Patton Oswalt

I'm not familiar with the metric system.

Patton Oswalt

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Patton Oswalt
American - Comedian
Born: January 27, 1969

The normal metric of measuring progress has actually been the rate of growth, OK? It's not a wrong metric, but it's not a full metric.

Subrahmanyam Jaishankar

Drugs have taught an entire generation of kids the metric system

P. J. O'Rourke

The most lasting and universal consequence of the French revolution is the metric system

Eric Hobsbawm

Of course Evil's afoot. If it had switched to the metric system it'd be up to a meter by now.

Jim Butcher

I think the metric by which television is considered liberal is literally based on the metric of liberalism in each person's soul. Peoples' senses of humor tend to go about as far as their ideology.

Jon Stewart

Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.

Dave Barry

Nobody in the United States knows what either a "meter" or a "kilogram" is. The whole reason why we fought the Cold War was so we wouldn't have to learn the metric system.

Dave Barry

If God had wanted us to use the metric system, Jesus would have had 10 apostles.

Jesse Helms

I don't understand why a 40 is a quarter of beer when a 40 is 40 ounces. It's time to embrace the metric system.

Greg Gutfeld

When The Fall pummeled their way into my nervous system, circa 1983, it was as if a world that was familiar - and which I had thought too familiar, too quotidian to feature in rock - had returned, expressionistically transfigured, permanently altered.

Mark Fisher

If god had meant us to use the metric system he would have given us ten finger and ten toes.

Judith Stone

One of the most important tasks as a leader in a startup is to pick the right metric to track. This is often referred to as the 'compass metric' because it will be your compass for growth. It's important to note that 'compass metrics' will likely change over the lifetime of a business.

Tobias Lutke

The system should speak the users' language, with words, phrases and concepts familiar to the user, rather than system-oriented terms. Follow real-world conventions, making information appear in a natural and logical order.

Jakob Nielsen

The metric system was designed to get people to enter charity runs.Do you think you would go run a 3.1 mile race? No, but if somebody says, hey, 5 km. You go, 5km sounds pretty impressive.

Greg Gutfeld

I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the familiar way the story begins, the anticipation of familiar turns it takes, the familiar moments of suspense, and the familiar climax and ending.

Fred Rogers

Sales managers should track the number of first meetings with "right fit" prospects a sales person is engaged in on a monthly basis...This metric alone will serve as a powerful, early-warning system to sales performance.

Adrian Davis

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