Moving Number

Famous quotes containing the words moving and/or number:

“People’s tongues are like grass, moving this way and that according to the direction of the winds.”
—Chinese proverb.

“Mining today is an affair of mathematics, of finance, of the latest in engineering skill. Cautious men behind polished desks in San Francisco figure out in advance the amount of metal to a cubic yard, the number of yards washed a day, the cost of each operation. They have no need of grubstakes.”
—Merle Colby, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)