Top 6 Roman Numerals Quotes

Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing.

Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing.

Rob Pike

Roman Numerals, Design, Computing

Comment in comp.os.plan9, groups.google.com. 2004.

Programming graphics in X is like finding the square root of PI using Roman numerals.

Henry Spencer

Roman Numerals, Roots, Squares

Do you think Arabs are dumb? They gave us our numbers. Try doing long division with Roman numerals.

Kurt Vonnegut

Thinking, Roman Numerals, Numbers

"A Man Without a Country". Essay collection by Kurt Vonnegut, September 15, 2005.

A German merchant of the fifteenth century asked an eminent professor where he should send his son for a good business education. The professor responded that German universities would be sufficient to teach the boy addition and subtraction but he would have to go to Italy to learn multiplication and division. Before you smile indulgently, try multiplying or even just adding the Roman numerals CCLXIV, MDCCCIX, DCL, and MLXXXI without first translating them.

John Allen Paulos

Son, Boys, Roman Numerals

John Allen Paulos (2013). “Beyond Numeracy”, p.23, Vintage