Simple Math Quotes

Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth-grade math, you can do it.

I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.

The sweet simplicity of the three percents.

With four? Doing a little... Addition? Multiplication?

If I do have kids, I can't wait because I'm excited to go back to school to help them with their homework and remember how to do simple math. I think it's about staying curious and not losing the sense of wonder.

My own day-to-day observations confirm that many Americans can barely make change. At the supermarket where I buy groceries, I've watched more than one encounter at the cash register where both customer and clerk are befuddled at the prospect of double-checking the sums.

The problem with putting two and two together is that sometimes you get four, and sometimes you get twenty-two.

The great appeal of the doctrine that the mind is a blank slate is the simple mathematical fact that zero equals zero.

In our travels, we have come across many equations--math for understanding the universe, for making music, for mapping stars, and also for tipping, which is important. Here is our favorite equation: Us plus Them equals All of Us. It is very simple math. Try it sometime. You probably won’t even need a pencil.

All the math you need in the stock market you get in the fourth grade.

One thing that definitely did calculate properly for me was the mathematics that makes sense every day, no matter how I look at it, I can't get around it. I try to get around it, I keep trying to find one plus one is not two, somehow. I can't. People can talk about string theory, parallel realities, different dimensions, it's still one plus one is two, baby.

It don't matter as long as he can count up to 10

Looking at numbers as groups of rocks may seem unusual, but actually it's as old as math itself. The word "calculate" reflects that legacy - it comes from the Latin word calculus, meaning a pebble used for counting. To enjoy working with numbers you don't have to be Einstein (German for "one stone"), but it might help to have rocks in your head.