Zero Quotes - Page 33

• Fourth Law of Thermodynamics: If the probability of success is not almost one, then it is damn near zero.

  David R. Ellis

  Law, Damn, Probability

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Much of our national debate proceeds as if China and America were locked in a zero-sum game in which one's loss is precisely the other's gain.

  Eric Liu

  Loss, Games, America

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• I don't know anything about politics. Like, zero. Nothing.

  Norm MacDonald

  Knows, Uncle Tom

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• Security is always going to be a cat and mouse game because there'll be people out there that are hunting for the zero day award, you have people that don't have configuration management, don't have vulnerability management, don't have patch management.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Cat, Hunting, Awards

  "An Hour with Kevin Mitnick, Part 2". Interview with Vince Barnes, www.esecurityplanet.com. April 7, 2004.

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• The funny thing about advertising is that it's not a zero-sum game... Historically, in the digital ad world, pie has gotten larger and it's possible for everyone to win, and it's perfectly possible that will continue to be true for quite some time.

  Eric Schmidt

  Winning, Funny Things, Games

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• I have zero interest in sports of any kind - professional, college or international.

  Jimmy Wales

  Sports, College, Kind

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• There is absolutely zero chance that ObamaCare will be repealed while Democrats control the Senate and President Obama is in the White House.

  Juan Williams

  Obamacare, White, House

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• For me, relationships are the real action movies. Bombs are exploding every day and the kitchen is Ground Zero.

  Michelle Williams

  Real, Kitchen, Bombs

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• All over the world, social innovation is tackling some of the most pressing problems facing society today - from fair trade, distance learning, hospices, urban farming and waste reduction to restorative justice and zero-carbon housing. But most of these are growing despite, not because of, help from governments.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Distance, Government, Justice

  "Going global: social innovation" by Geoff Mulgan, www.theguardian.com. March 3, 2010.

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• ALPHA-60: Your name is written "Ivan Johnson," but it is pronounced "Lemmy Caution," Secret Agent Zero Zero Three of the Outlands. You are a threat to the security of Alphaville. CAUTION: I refuse to become what you call "normal." ... ALPHA-60: You cannot escape. The door is locked. CAUTION: Try to stop me, pal.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Doors, Names, Secret

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• I was born from nothing and to nothing I will return. And yet, when i say the word nothing, when i admit, at last, 'I am nothing,' i feel mysteriously like something again, ground zero, genesis, the pull of possibilities.

  Lauren Slater

  Lasts, Return, Possibility

  Lauren Slater (2000). “Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir”, Random House Incorporated

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• It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Therefore, there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely the products of a deranged imagination.

  Douglas Adams

  Love, Life, Relationship

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe”, p.93, Pan Macmillan

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• If two people stare at each other for more than a few seconds, it means they are about to either make love or fight. Something similar might be said about human societies. If two nearby societies are in contact for any length of time, they will either trade or fight. The first is non-zero-sum social integration, and the second ultimately brings it.

  Robert Wright

  Mean, Fighting, Two

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• I have infinite capacity to do more work as long as you don't mind that my quality approaches zero.

  Scott Adams

  Long, Mind, Quality

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• Your strength as a rationalist is your ability to be more confused by fiction than by reality. If you are equally good at explaining any outcome, you have zero knowledge.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Confused, Reality, Fiction

  "Your Strength as a Rationalist". lesswrong.com. August 11, 2007.

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• I especially cannot imagine anyone who grew up during the Cold War era listening to Donald Trump and saying, you know what, that's a guy that I want to support. It makes zero sense.

  Julian Castro

  War, Support, Guy

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• In a capitalist system, there's a principle that if you invest, especially in a long-term risky investment, if something comes out of it, you're supposed to get the profit. It doesn't happen in our system. The taxpayer paid for it and gets nothing - assumes all of the risk, gets zero. The money goes into the pockets of Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, who are ripping off decades of work in the public sector.

  Noam Chomsky

  Jobs, Long, Risk

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The neutral zone of selective advantage in the neighbourhood of zero is thus so narrow that changes in the environment, and in the genetic constitution of species, must cause this zone to be crossed and perhaps recrossed relatively rapidly in the course of evolutionary change, so that many possible gene substitutions may have a fluctuating history of advance and regression before the final balance of selective advantage is determined.

  Ronald Fisher

  Science, Balance, Finals

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• I mean a racist, hate-filled host who is openly trying to get people to be violent would have zero viewers in the America I know and love.

  Glenn Beck

  Hate, Mean, America

  "Birth Pangs". "The Glenn Beck Program", www.foxnews.com. November 8, 2010.

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• The linebacker has to make multiple, multiple decisions on every play. Not only what his assignment is and what the play is, but all the way along the line, different angles, how to take on blocks, how to tackle, the leverage to play with, the angle to run to and so forth, the technique. So many different things happen in a split second during the course of the play, just like it is for a quarterback. The more of those things that you can do right, slow down, get the most important things, not get distracted by all the stuff that's happening, but just really zero in on a target.

  Bill Belichick

  Running, Block, Play

  Source: blog.sfgate.com

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• Unlike cheap stocks, inexpensive asset classes have a lower chance of big drawdowns (broad asset classes don't go to zero) and a higher probability of average or better returns.

  Barry Ritholtz

  Average, Class, Return

  Source: www.bloomberg.com

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• The 80s were deranged. People had all these liberties all of a sudden and all the freedom in the world, the Less Than Zero sort of themes that came from that period, I think electronic music works very well for that whole idiom.

  Sam de Jong

  Thinking, People, Liberty

  Source: noisey.vice.com

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• We have to start at ground zero and ask what it means to have a real connection with God and what it means to pray. We have to recast our whole understanding of God. We live on the other side of Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Sigmund Freud, Albert Einstein, Steven Hawking, a whole group of people who have recast the way we think about reality.

  John Shelby Spong

  Real, Mean, Thinking

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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• The Fugazi Live Series site, when we realized the Internet, the way it works - the speeds and its development - made it possible to have one source of infinite copies, was incredible for us. Using tapes or CD's to make copies would have been so unwieldy. We have shows that have zero downloads, which makes me sad, but they're all freely available at any time. The most downloaded show was the one with the best audio quality, but I didn't think it was a very interesting show.

  Ian MacKaye

  Thinking, Cds, Interesting

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• I still am amazed by the reaction I get from people when I tell them that there was zero immigration in this country from 1924 to 1965. And the reason that people don't know that, A, they just don't know it, it's not reported, it's never been part of history class, history education.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Class, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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