(134 quotes found)
“The problem is that instead of having one way to calculate corporate earnings that everybody understands, we have two or three methods. And the one that most people use, there is virtually no agreement at all about what it means.”
David Blitzer
“It's just like a credit check, it collects data to calculate a score.”
Pat Peterson
“The findings in this report should push DNR to better calculate reclamation bonds to protect Alaska's taxpayers and mining communities,”
David Chambers
“We've made some calculations about whether we could put a plant in northern Minnesota, based on the debris that's left after you cut timber, like the tops of the trees. It's difficult to get enough together to support [an ethanol] plant. That material is scattered enough that it gets expensive to collect it all and bring it to one location.”
Vernon Eidman
“A real game is 32 minutes, but he calculated it all out to where in actuality you only run for 26 minutes and 24 seconds, hence 26-24, so you sprint that long.”
Vini Dawson
“Calculations which required a $20 million machine eight years ago can be done on a Mac cluster costing about $11,000.”
Dean Dauger
“He was professionally fearless, but calculating. He didn't go stupidly into combat. That was what was so weird (about the way he died). It was so un-Neil, but it was so un-Thai. This wasn't a conflict, this was a bunch of chocolate soldiers.”
Derek Williams
“You have a new rule system which is so calculated, so difficult and so complicated.”
Dick Button
“[One important new feature is derived variables, which enable engineers to calculate and plot new variables from existing data for wells, groups, or other entities.] Often the variables they need to plot are not in their dataset, ... The simulators output a set variables, but they may need to plot a variable that is a function of that set. This new functionality gives them the flexibility to create the plots that are important to them in making their decisions.”
Don Roberts
“We're coming up to a point in the flight where we're going to have to do some critical calculations on fuel.”
Kevin Stass