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Quotes of the Day for 18 August 2004 - Calculation

On this day in 1947, Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard of Palo Alto, California incorporated the company that bears their names. Although their earliest products were audio oscillators (Disney was their first client) and they now make a staggering range of printers, computers, and test equipment, for many years they were known for making the first and finest pocket calculators.

Great works are done when one is not calculating and thinking.
     - Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki, 1870 - 1966

The age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded.
     - Edmund Burke, 1728 - 1797

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
     - George S. Patton, 1885 - 1945

In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms and quicksands and thousand-and-one items to be allowed for, that a man has to live, if he would not founder and go to the bottom and not make his port at all, by dead reckoning, and he must be a great calculator indeed who succeeds. Simplify, simplify.
     - Henry David Thoreau, Walden

Calculation never made a hero.
     - John Henry Newman, 1801 - 1890

Your basic guy is into a straight-ahead, bottom-line kind of thought process that does not work nearly as well with the infinitely subtle complexities of human relationships as it does with calculating how much gravel is needed to cover a given driveway.
     - Dave Barry

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