#zero

Zero-sum thinking is an obsession of mine, but mostly in economics. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#mine #mostly #obsession #thinking #zero-sum

What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#become #begin #boy #child #childhood

The great appeal of the doctrine that the mind is a blank slate is the simple mathematical fact that zero equals zero. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#blank #blank slate #doctrine #equals #fact

Today I can declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see the time when that number of nuclear weapons is down to zero and the world is a much better place. ↗

— Colin Powell

#better place #bottom #declare #down #eventually

The price of a commodity will never go to zero. When you invest in commodities futures, you're not buying a piece of paper that says you own an intangible piece of company that can go bankrupt. ↗

— Jim Rogers

#buying #commodities #commodity #company #futures

We wanted to be in great shape, we wanted to be able to cope with zero gravity, we wanted to be able to cope with accelerations and decelerations and so on. So all of us trained so that we were probably in the best physical condition we had ever been in up until that point. ↗

— Alan Shepard

#been #best #condition #cope #ever

Together with international unity and resolve we can meet the challenge of this global scourge and work to bring about an international law of zero tolerance for terrorism. ↗

— Manmohan Singh

#bring #challenge #global #international #international law

Abstraction is everybody's zero but nobody's nought. ↗

— Robert Smithson

#everybody #nobody #nought #zero

Less Than Zero and American Psycho were both really different, so I was just like, Okay, he's just really doesn't have anything pleasant to say, you know? But I get it. I get at least why it's difficult and what he's really doing. ↗

— Shannyn Sossamon

#anything #both #different #difficult #doing

The real minimum wage is zero. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#minimum wage #real #wage #zero