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In my mind, numbers and words are far more than squiggles of ink on a page. They have form, color, texture and so on. They come alive to me, which is why as a young child I thought of them as my 'friends.'

Numerals are images of amounts. But the amounts they represent are real.

You don't have to be a mathematician to have a feel for numbers.

I love the idea of numerology, but I don't really believe in it. But I like thinking about what numbers convey.

The most important thing in arithmetic is not the shapes of the numbers but the reality living in them. This living reality has much more meaning for the spiritual world than what lives in reading and writing.

We don't know what we're writing until it just comes out. We don't sit around crunching numbers.

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

I believe in numbers and signs.

Age and numbers are a concept made up by man.

The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.