Algebra Quotations

I still remember asking my high school guidance teacher for permission to take a second year of algebra instead of a fifth year of Latin. She looked down her nose at me and sneered, 'What lady would take mathematics instead of Latin?'

Life isn't about algebra and geometry. Learning by making mistakes and not duplicating them is what life is about.

I don't know why I should have to learn Algebra... I'm never likely to go there.

I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive.

I sort of was good at writing essays. I was never very good at mathematics, and I was never very good at algebra. I loved science, but I wasn't sure of it.

Around 1967 Dan Bobrow wrote a program to do algebra problems based on symbols rather than numbers.

It is a curious historical fact that modern quantum mechanics began with two quite different mathematical formulations: the differential equation of Schroedinger and the matrix algebra of Heisenberg. The two apparently dissimilar approaches were proved to be mathematically equivalent.

Problem solving, and I don't mean algebra, seems to be my life's work. Maybe it's everyone's life's work.

If you are devastated first thing in the morning, day in and day out, you're not thinking about Algebra II.

I was the happiest in English class, and algebra was where I cried.

The parent does not have to know Algebra II by asking these questions.

An incoming ninth-grader who hasn't passed algebra is certainly at risk of failing the exit exam.

Algebra was my particular nemesis, ... This gave me a strong feeling of frustration, a feeling of being unwanted. As a result, I cannot honestly say that was a particularly happy period of my life.

That hurts us for AYP. We're giving a lot more kids the opportunity to take Algebra 1,

They delay and may go to (another) school and in four months get eight or 10 core course requirements. And within that sequence you might be taking Algebra I and II and geometry, which doesn't make sense (that) you could fulfill those (at the same time).

I'm kind of waiting for an algebra book.

If kids are behind, they need more time in school. We have kids who come to us in fifth grade as nonreaders. We had kids who come to us with parole officers. Now they are in algebra II and Spanish II.

Instead of five hundred thousand average algebra teachers, we need one good algebra teacher. We need that teacher to create software, videotape themselves, answer questions, let your computer or the iPad teach algebra... The hallmark of any good technology is that it destroys jobs.

Friendship is an Algebra test that nobody passes.

I don't want to see any damage to reading and algebra programs.

I don't think they can do as well if they haven't had algebra I and II and geometry, and are avid readers. Our counselors make sure these kids know they have to have the proper courses to take the test, but we do not discourage them from taking the test if they haven't had those classes yet.

For the first time for any state test, 100 percent of our students passed the Algebra I test. We had 13 scores over 400.

The elements of justice are identical with those of algebra.

'Algebra' roughly translates to 'the system for reconciling disparate parts.'

Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic.

Poetry has become the higher algebra of metaphors.

All of that snorting, it's just like an algebra problem. We're going to give him a job. By giving him a job, I keep his mind active.

The mathematical sciences, in particular algebra and mechanics, provided me with clear and profound examples to confirm the rules I had learned.

An ounce of algebra is worth a ton of verbal argument.

Algebra and money are essentially levelers; the first intellectually, the second effectively.

I accidentally vaporize my pre-algebra teacher

I failed chemistry. I almost failed algebra.

Listen. Don't just wait to talk.

Be careful with whom you associate. Loser's rub off!

Always give more than what's expected.

Work hard. Someone's always watching.

I write emotional algebra.

Algebras are geometric facts which are proved.

Private Victory precedes Public Victory. Algebra comes before calculus.

Algebra applies to the clouds.

When you are dissatisfied and would like to go back to youth, think of Algebra.