“On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.”

“The only number that would ever be enough is 0. Zero pounds, zero life, size zero, double-zero, zero point. Zero in tennis is love. I finally get it.”

“After long enough, everyone in the world will be you enemy.”

“As long as we rule India, we are the greatest power in the world. If we lose it, we shall drop straight away to a third-rate Power.”

“If you write a line of zeroes, it´s still nothing.”

“In the face of surviving long enough to survive in the long term, there is no goal that comes to mind that means anything to me. I could write Survive, but I would rather hold that word in my heart than write it on some fucking board.”

“It will not be the case that we will have zero-rate tariffs on food products. There will be protections for sensitive sections of agriculture and food production.”

“We act like a zero-sum society, when in reality there is a lot of non zero-sum fat to be skimmed off to everyone's mutual advantage.”

“There are millions of chords. There are millions of numbers. And everyone forgets the one that is a zero. But without the zero, numbers are just arithmetic. Without the empty chord, music is just noise.”

“The society whose citizens are willing to stand and fight is the one with the best chance of surviving long enough for history to even notice.”