First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we've realized it's a brochure.
Quotes about calculator (15 Quotes)
A master was explaining the nature of Tao to one of his novices. 'The Tao is embodied in all software regardless of how insignificant,' said the master. 'Is Tao in a hand-held calculator' asked the novice. 'It is,' came the reply. 'Is the Tao in a video game' continued the novice. 'It is even in a video game,' said the master. 'And is the Tao in the DOS for a personal computer' The master coughed and shifted his position slightly. 'The lesson is over for today,' he said.
Whether they choose to let pros prepare their taxes, or try the latest computer assistance, or go it alone with pen and calculator, Americans are paying a dear price in money and time because of our complex tax system. Recent tax relief laws have helped many taxpayers keep more of the money they've worked for all year, but the work of filing their federal returns at tax time has become a tiresome chore.
It's counterintuitive to think that 'better' and 'less expensive' go together, but sometimes that's true in health care and the implications are significant. To health plans it means that you can save money by improving quality. To employers it means that you've got to look at more than premiums to decide which plan is the best value. The Quality Dividend Calculator is a tool that shows users the 'real' bottom line.
I sold my most valuable possession, but I knew that because I worked at Hewlett Packard, I could buy the next model calculator the very next month for a lower price than I sold the older one for!
Employers need to measure the cost of any given health plan two different ways premiums and productivity. Premiums are simple but until the Quality Dividend Calculator, nobody gave you a number showing you how Plan X was going to affect employee productivity. But employers need to know that number in order to determine which plan really represents the best value. The 'productivity cost' of a bad health plan can be very, very high.
A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator.
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 allowedfor, 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 agreat calculator indeed who succeeds. Simplify, simplify.
I'm always crunching numbers, so my calculator watch is a must.
Consumers won't need a calculator to figure out the great prices available during the Red Tag Event. All they have to do is look for the red tag posted on our award winning lineup of cars and trucks. They won't pay a penny more than the low price they see on the red tag of the vehicle. It's a great offer and clearly the smart way to buy a vehicle this holiday season.
I think the main culprit is modernity itself. Modernity and beauty simply don't mix. Pragmatism and an industrial-sized busyness denigrate everything that can't squeeze out of a calculator. And the first thing to die under such circumstances is a passion for beauty. For those trying desperately to jump over moving hurdles, pursuing beauty is just foolishness.... We just don't have the time for poetry beauty isn't useful, we say, until we're in our eighties, when many finally reflect and realize that beauty was truly essential to a good life that has now slipped by.
There's like ten minutes when it's like, 'Okay, wait, who is this guy again?' And then, you know, I just put on the calculator watch and the glasses, and just be all, you know, inappropriate. And then it just works out fine.
The calculator is designed to provide a basic projection of consumers' buying potential. Our built-in debt-to-income ratio calculates the high end of affordability.
A good calculator does not need artificial aids.
There's really no way to calculate the harm that's been done to Mr. Higazy's reputation internationally. People still believe he has something to do with 911 and but for some technicality of some kind or another, he would be in jail. So his character has been besmirched internationally, his family and he have suffered extreme emotional distress, so there is really no way you can go to a calculator and punch up a number.