Patient Grissell (1599), Act i. Sc. 1.
Trees and Other Poems (1914), Delicatessen
Context: Perhaps he lives and dies unpraised,
This trafficker in humble sweets,
Because his little shops are raised
By thousands in the city streets.
Yet stars in greater numbers shine,
And violets in millions grow,
And they in many a golden line
Are sung, as every child must know.
Reference to the big numbers in hardware power and specifications that Microsoft and Sony had mentioned about their upcoming video game consoles
'2' refers to Nintendo having sold two billion games since the NES
On Nintendo
Source: E3 2005 Press Event
Disme: the Art of Tenths, Or, Decimall Arithmetike (1608)
As expressed in "The Mathematical Philosophy of Giuseppe Peano" by Hubert C. Kennedy, in Philosophy of Science Vol. 30, No. 3 (July 1963)
Peano axioms
“Sometimes wrong numbers are the right numbers”
Source: The Time of My Life
Source: Just a Theory: Exploring the Nature of Science (2005), Chapter 3, “Words Scientists Don’t Use: At Least Not the Way You Do” (p. 56)
“Look out for number one and try not to step in number two.”
“How can you own […] numbers? Numbers belong to the world.”
In his video account on the creation of TeX http://www.webofstories.com/people/donald.knuth/52?o=SH, he comments that Xerox offered to allow him to use their equipment, but that the fonts he created would belong to them.
