Almost Zero Quotes

#1. The individual incentive not to commit crime on Wall Street now is almost zero.

Matt Taibbi

#2. So you ask yourself: Am I willing to take responsibility for my life, in word and in deed? If not, your chances of living a rich and fulfilling life are almost zero. If so, you have the potential for a joyous journey ahead.

Eric Greitens

#3. There clearly is a serious race problem in the country. Just take a look at what's happening to African American communities. For example wealth, wealth in African American communities is almost zero. The history is striking.

Noam Chomsky

#4. Information is not like money or any other commodity. The cracks that it can slip through are almost infinitely small, and it can be duplicated at almost zero cost. Soon information will be like air, like the weather, and as easy to control.

David Brin

#5. Honestly, I don't think I'm a good promoter. I spend almost zero time or effort asking new readers to sample or purchase my work. That's not the job of the author. We should write our best material and leave it up to readers to spread the word.

Hugh Howey

#6. The Internet destroyed most of the barriers to publication. The cost of being a publisher dropped to almost zero with two interesting immediate results: anybody can publish, and more importantly, you can publish whatever you want.

Dick Costolo

#7. I might have some sort of personality disorder. I might not have proper filters; it might be some kind of version of Asperger's meets Tourettes meets prose.

Jonathan Ames

#8. Almost every one of my various zero numbered birthdays has had a big concert in London and often in Paris.

Elliott Carter

#9. At the point so near to zero, just almost before the death, life's value jumps to infinity!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#10. Do you know how hard it is to say nothing? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite? I had practiced not saying anything the whole way from the airport, and it was still nearly killing me.

Jojo Moyes

#11. The heart is, truly, the source of love. The proof is that if you remove it from someone, they will almost certainly never love again.

Zero Mostel

#12. I can zero in on a vision of where I want to be in the future. I can see it so clearly in front of me, when I daydream, it's almost a reality. Then I get this easy feeling, and I don't have to be uptight to get there because I already feel like I'm there, that it's just a matter of time.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#13. Giving up animal fats has also meant shifting over to vegetable oils, and over the past century the share of these oils has grown from zero to almost 8 percent of all calories consumed by Americans, by far the biggest change in our eating patterns during that time.

Nina Teicholz

#14. God does not exist to make a big deal out of us. We exist to make a big deal out of him. It's not about you. It's not about me. It's all about him.

Max Lucado

#15. When goods are digital, they can be replicated with perfect quality at nearly zero cost, and they can be delivered almost instantaneously. Welcome to the economics of abundance.

Erik Brynjolfsson

#16. When you have a product that has zero sales, it is easy for people to say whatever they want about it and almost fantasize about it.

Bill Gates

#17. For almost a minute the two of us were locked in a battle of wills that had no possible winner, only a different order of losing.

Mira Grant

#18. Continued innovation is the best way to beat the competition.

Thomas A. Edison

#19. Lucille was a darling lady. Probably the finest comedienne in the business.

Robert Stack

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

David R. Ellis

#21. Why did god create a dual universe?
So he might say
'Be not like me. I am alone.'
And it might be heard.

Mark Z. Danielewski

#22. I mean, when you get down to very low numbers of nuclear weapons, and you contemplate going to zero, how do you deal with the reality of that technology being available to almost any country that seeks to pursue it? And what conditions do you put in place?

Robert M. Gates

#23. Those who are quick to feel disrespected often have a spiritual vacuum in their lives, because they feel disconnected to the love of their Father in Heaven.

Al Gore

#24. Visual impressions are greatly intensified and the eye recovers some of the perceptual innocence of childhood, when the sensum was not immediately and automatically subordinated to the concept. Interest in space is diminished and interest in time falls almost to zero.

Aldous Huxley

#25. We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#26. To make one think is to change a generation, to build one thought is to grow a better world

Yolanda De Iuliis

#27. Labeling and diagnosis is a catastrophic way to communicate. Telling other people what's wrong with them greatly reduces, almost to zero, the probability that we're going to get what we're after.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#28. I look forward to the promising upside of the long-term that lingers ahead for me after such abysmal days. Things always just seem to balance out in the long run. In fact, I'm almost there. The zero line is within inches of my trembling outstretched grasp.

David B. Lentz

#29. It was the soul of the machine, the ethological epicentre, the planetary ground zero of their commercial energy. I could almost feel it, shivering down like bomb-blasted rivers of glass from these undreaming towers of dark and light invading the snow-dark sky.

Iain M. Banks

#30. You have to revisit anyway The fact is that everyone has scalability issues, no one can deal with their service going from zero to a few million users without revisiting almost every aspect of their design and architecture. -Dare Obasanjo, Microsoft

Jason Fried

#31. How much further beyond basic research the role of the government should be, you could have a really good debate about it. Almost nobody would say it's zero. But that's where at least we need the private sector to play a big role.

Bill Gates

#32. Ignorance was the enemy. Lies and superstition, misinformation, disinformation. Sometimes, no information at all. Ignorance killed billions of people. Ignorance caused the Zombie War.

Max Brooks

#33. Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?

Benjamin Franklin

#34. We've got SEAL teams in the field that are very close to net zero in terms of energy and water, so they can stay out almost indefinitely without being resupplied.

Ray Mabus

#35. In a game, just losing is almost as satisfying as just winning ... In life the loser's score is always zero.

W. H. Auden

#36. A panel at a beautiful annual literary festival in Brazil, held in the almost Utopian coastal town of Parati, found me matched with Fernando Gabeira. This comparison reduced my own limited charisma value to something like zero: Gabeira has excelled at every cultural activity in Brazil.

Christopher Hitchens

#37. When NASA started sending up astronauts, they discovered that ballpoint pens don't work in zero gravity. So they spent twelve million dollars and more than a decade developing a pen that writes under any condition, on almost every surface. The Russians used a pencil.

Garrison Keillor