Quotes on Zero

The sheer folly of trying to defend a nation by destroying all life on the planet must be apparent to anyone capable of rational thought. Nuclear capability must be reduced to zero, globally, permanently. There is no other option.

We get the exciting result that the total energy of the universe is zero. Why this should be so is one of the great mysteries - and therefore one of the important questions of physics. After all, what would be the use of studying physics if the mysteries were not the most important things to investigate?

The average hedge fund manager is going to earn zero per cent in extra return.

No, I'm not interested in politics. I have zero interest. I have interest in hope and people.

This is what I mean when I say I would like to swim against the stream of time: I would like to erase the consequences of certain events and restore an initial condition. But every moment of my life brings with it an accumulation of new facts, and each of these new facts bring with it consequences; so the more I seek to return to the zero moment from which I set out, the further I move away from it. . . .

A finite world can support only a finite population; therefore, population growth must eventually equal zero.

To those who ask what the infinitely small quantity in mathematics is, we answer that it is actually zero. Hence there are not so many mysteries hidden in this concept as they are usually believed to be.

Beauty isn’t between a size zero and a size eight, it is not a number at all. It is not physical.

If you are equally good at explaining any outcome, you have zero knowledge.

Bullhorns are overrated: having ten times as many Twitter followers generates approximately zero times as much value.

One is entitled to say without qualification that the correlation between prior judicial experience and fitness for the Supreme Court is zero.

As we think of power in the 21st century, we want to get away from the idea that power’s always zero sum — my gain is your loss and vice versa. Power can also be positive sum, where your gain can be my gain.

My guiding principle is that prosperity can be shared. We can create wealth together. The global economy is not a zero-sum game.

With photography, you zero in; you put a lot of energy into short moments, and then you go on to the next thing.

Three decades into this crisis, let us set our sights on achieving the "three zeros" zero new HIV infections, zero discrimination and zero AIDS-related deaths.

The horizon of many people is a circle with a radius of zero. They call this their point of view.

Programming is not a zero-sum game. Teaching something to a fellow programmer doesn't take it away from you. I'm happy to share what I can, because I'm in it for the love of programming.

I have always struggled, with the sole intention of ceasing to struggle. Result: zero.

My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus.

A golf course should aspire to generate as much energy as it consumes - golf should be leading the way toward energy net zero.