math quotes

I think business is very simple.Profit. Loss. Take the sales, subtract the costs, you get this big positive number. The math is quite straightforward.

- Bill (William Henry III) Gates
  Quoted in the US News and World Report,15 Feb.

Math was my worst subject because I could never persuade the teacher that my answers were meant ironically.

- Calvin Marshall Trillin
  In the NewYorkTimes,7 Oct. US literary  critic whose works,  such  as The Liberal  Imagination (1950)  and  Beyond  Culture  (1965),  gained him  a  reputation for scholarly  and  astute  social  comment.  He  also  wrote  a  novel, The Middle of  theJourney (1947).