Null Quotes

• Our society trains us to think of marriage as a contractual arrangement. If one party fails to fulfill his or her end, the contract is null and void. Increasingly children are raised in a contractual environment. When contractual thinking dominates our horizon, we can even make Jesus or the church an asset we think we can manage.

  Michael Horton

  Jesus, Children, Party

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• ʺThe contractʹs null and void, by the way.ʺ

  Richelle Mead

  Way, Void, Contracts

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• I call it my billion-dollar mistake. It was the invention of the null reference in 1965.

  Tony Hoare

  Mistake, Dollars, Invention

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• And don't tell me there isn't one bit of difference between null and space, because that's exactly how much difference there is.

  Larry Wall

  Differences, Space, Computer

  Usenet article "Bugs in -P and -I handling", groups.google.com. November 1, 1990.

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• One man's magic is another man's gluey torture session.

  Jackie Earle Haley

  Men, Engineering, Magic

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• A strong person makes the law and custom null before his own will.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strength, Strong, Law

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.468

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  One man's 'magic' is another man's engineering. 'Supernatural' is a null word.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Men, Engineering, Usa

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.236, Penguin

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• Anarchism is the only philosophy which brings to man the consciousness of himself; which maintains that God, the State, and society are non-existent, that their promises are null and void, since they can be fulfilled only through man's subordination.

  Emma Goldman

  Philosophy, Men, Promise

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.35, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• The most intellectual of men are moved quite as much by the circumstances which they are used to as by their own will. The active voluntary part of a man is very small, and if it were not economized by a sleepy kind of habit, its results would be null.

  Walter Bagehot

  Sleep, Men, Intellectual

  Walter Bagehot, Richard Holt Hutton (1891). “The Works of Walter Bagehot ...”

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• Prostitution reinforces all the old dumb clichés about women's sexuality; that they are not built to enjoy sex and are little more than walking masturbation aids, things to be done to, things so sensually null and void that they have to be paid to indulge in fornication, that women can be had, bought, as often as not sold from one man to another. When the sex war is won prostitutes should be shot as collaborators for their terrible betrayal of all women.

  Julie Burchill

  Sex, Betrayal, War

  "Damaged Gods: Cults and Heroes Reappraised". Book by Julie Burchill, 1986.

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• [Coining phrase "null hypothesis"] In relation to any experiment we may speak of this hypothesis as the "null hypothesis," and it should be noted that the null hypothesis is never proved or established, but is possibly disproved, in the course of experimentation. Every experiment may be said to exist only in order to give the facts a chance of disproving the null hypothesis.

  Ronald Fisher

  Order, Giving, Phrases

  "The Design of Experiments". Book by Ronald Fisher, 1935.

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• What used to be called prejudice is now called a null hypothesis.

  A. W. F. Edwards

  Prejudice, Statistics, Used

  A. W. F. Edwards (1984). “Likelihood”, p.180, CUP Archive

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• Due to the oath I swore to the constitution when I enlisted in the United States Marine Corps, by virtue of the universal human right to self defense, in accordance with the Supreme Court case, D.C. vs. Heller, which affirmed that the statutes under which I am being charged are unconstitutional and thus null and void, and on behalf of all freedom loving Americans, I plead not guilty.

  Adam Kokesh

  Marine, Self, United States

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• Cancel me not - for what then shall remain? Abscissas, some mantissas, modules, modes, A root or two, a torus and a node: The inverse of my verse, a null domain.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Humorous, Two, Roots

  Stanislaw Lem (2002). “The Cyberiad”, p.57, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I couldn't resist the temptation to put in a null reference, simply because it was so easy to implement. This has led to innumerable errors, vulnerabilities, and system crashes, which have probably caused a billion dollars of pain and damage in the last forty years.

  Tony Hoare

  Pain, Errors, Years

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• It's not a random chance that we have Alanis Morissette. She didn't evolve out of a null and void. She came from a former template. She borrowed styles and sounds from a very limited set of other artists.

  Greg Graffin

  Artist, Style, Sound

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• Every law of matter or the body, supposed to govern man,is rendered null and void by the law of Life, God.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  God, Men, Law

  Mary Baker Eddy (2014). “Science And Health”, p.457, Jazzybee Verlag

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• All religious vows, codes, and commitments are null & void herein. Please refrain from contaminating the ideosphere with harmful memes through prayer, reverence, holy books, proselytizing, prophesying, faith, speaking in tongues or spirituality. Fight the menace of second-hand faith! Humanity sincerely thanks you!

  Greg Erwin

  Thank You, Religious, Prayer

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• This, indeed, is one of the eternal paradoxes of both life and literature-that without passion little gets done; yet, without control of that passion, its effects are largely ill or null.

  F. L. Lucas

  Passion, Done, Literature

  F. L. Lucas (2012). “Style: The Art of Writing Well”, Harriman House Limited

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• The house clock, place certain there at the bottom of things, strikes the half hour dry and null. All is so much, all is so deep, all is so dark and cold!

  Fernando Pessoa

  Dark, House, Half

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa (1982). Translated by Richard Zenith, p. 60, 2006.

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• Don't fear to pledge. By winds the perjuries of love Are blown, null and void, across the land and farthest seas.

  Tibullus

  Wind, Sea, Land

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• If Koboi defeats and presumably murders us both then you can consider the debt null and void.

  Eoin Colfer

  Debt, Void, Murder

  Eoin Colfer (2006). “Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception”, Miramax

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• To lose one's health renders science null, are inglorious, strength unavailing, wealth useless, and eloquence powerless.

  Herophilos

  Health, Useless, Wealth

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• Mathematics can remove no prejudices and soften no obduracy. It has no influence in sweetening the bitter strife of parties, and in the moral world generally its action is perfectly null.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Party, Prejudice, World

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Stuart Blackie (1883). “The Wisdom of Goethe”, Edinburgh, W. Blackwood

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• One does not have to sleep with, or even touch, someone who has paid for your meal. All those obligations are hereby rendered null and void, and any man who doesn't think so needs a quick jab in the kidney.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Sleep, Men, Thinking

  Cynthia Heimel (1983). “Sex Tips For Girls: Lust, Love, and Romance from the Lives of Single Women”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

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