A Quote by Aprilynne Pike

Square root of a cosine? How is that ever going to be useful?

Aprilynne Pike

Quote Topics

Ever Going How Root Square Useful

Quote Author

Aprilynne Pike
American - Author
Born: 1981

No one fully understands spinors. Their algebra is formally understood but their general significance is mysterious. In some sense they describe the 'square root' of geometry and, just as understanding the square root of -1 took centuries, the same might be true of spinors.

Michael Atiyah

The theme is the theme of humiliation, which is the square root of sin, as opposed to the freedom from humiliation, and love, which is the square root of wonderful.

Carson McCullers

There's all sorts of things I was always meaning to get around to - learning to play the flute, calculating the square root of nought, going mad - but I just didn't have the time.

Tom Holt

Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.

Louisa May Alcott

The square root of I is I.

Vladimir Nabokov

If you ever go to Temple Square in Salt Lake City, if you stay there long enough, you'll see a homeless person standing in the middle of their nice, beautiful square, holding out a cup for change. And the Mormons don't ever ask him to leave.

Trey Parker

The square root of nothing.

R. D. Laing

Irrationality is the square root of all evil.

Douglas Hofstadter

The square root of 69 is 8(ate) som'

Drake

Judaism, Christianity, Islam, all of these are branches, the root is love and that's where I went. I went straight to the root, I forgot the branches and I went straight to the root so that is how I see it, that is after I said of research and study and going through different phases of mental evolution, mental and consciousness evolution, not just believing in a book, believing in a certain idea, being willing to think for yourself and formulate your own ideas.

Ziggy Marley

The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.

Terry Pratchett

A good preface must be the root and the square of the book at the same time.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Have you ever tried to talk to a baby or a toddler? They never look you square in the eyes, they know about three words, and God forbid they ever ask you how you're doing. It's all about them!

Jen Kirkman

Programming graphics in X is like finding the square root of PI using Roman numerals.

Henry Spencer

Vancouver is the square root of negative one. Technically it shouldn't exist, but it does. I can't imagine living anywhere else.

Douglas Coupland

Is there some situation where square wheels would be better than round wheels? Sure! A round wheel has a pressure point directly under the tire. A square wheel's corners are going to bite and propel you forward. The square wheel could be superior on snow or mud or sand.

Jamie Hyneman

A Quote by Aprilynne Pike

Quote Topics

Quote Author

Related Quotes

Related Authors