What writers & others say
“Numbers, when they’re large enough, simply blow our mental fuses. People often find anything with an ‘-illion’ on the end incomprehensible.”
— Michael Blastland and Andrew Dilnot, authors of The Numbers Game
“Great clots of numbers dropped into a story with a steam shovel create a wall of abstraction.”
— William Blundell, author, The Art and Craft of Feature Writing
“Big numbers fuzz our brains, and that is just as true in business as it is in public policy.”
— Chip Heath and Dan Heath, authors of Made to Stick
“Speaking in ‘millions’ and ‘billions’ is like your second year of Spanish: You’ve memorized the vocabulary, but it’s hard to think in the language.”
— Chip Heath and Dan Heath, authors of Made to Stick
