Affected Quote by Rich Fulcher

Over the years, a number of very smart people have learned the hard way that a long string of impressive numbers multiplied by a…

— Warren Buffett

“Finding a number before zeros—a story that never ends.”

— Hannan Sher

I don't agree with mathematics; the sum total of zeros is a frightening figure.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

“The problem is that many mathematicians have done the same thing Riemann himself did: surged ahead using the prime counting method , assuming that…

— Matt Parker

The human brain finds it extremely hard to cope with a new level of abstraction. This is why it was well into the eighteenth…

— Keith Devlin

“Zero has had a long history. The Babylonians invented the concept of zero; the ancient Greeks debated it in lofty terms (how could something…

— Dan Ariely

But that was the thing about zero. Its weakness. Even if zero had taken over the entire universe, the biggest fascist of all, one…

— Janet Fitch

There comes a point where it doesn't matter how many zeroes are at the end of your bank account.

— Chris Martin

“I got zero on a maths test once," I said. "The teacher said he'd wanted to give me a minus number, but the computer…

— J.L. Merrow

Zeroes are important. A million seconds ago was last week. A billion seconds ago, Richard Nixon resigned the presidency. A trillion seconds ago was…

— Denis Hayes

If you write a whole line of zeroes, it's still — nothing.

— Ayn Rand

Sometimes you accidentally input an extra digit into the year: i.e, 19993 and you add 18,000 years on to *now*, and you realize that…

— Douglas Coupland