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There are 100 billion neurons in the adult human brain, and each neuron makes something like 1,000 to 10,000 contacts with other neurons in the… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
I know that some knowledgeable people fear that although we might be willing to spend a couple of billion dollars in 1958, because we still… — Hugh Latimer Dryden
Today, energy prices are at historic highs. Some analysts estimate that energy price shocks this year could cost American consumers more than $40 billion. Speaking… — Jeff Bingaman
I call the transformed world toward which we can move â€˜sustainable,â€™ by whichÂ I mean a great deal more than a world that merely sustains… — Donella Meadows
At the end of my life, is it better to say that I empowered people to make great stuff, or that I died with a… — Guy Kawasaki
We are the intelligent elite among animal life on earth and whatever our mistakes, [Earth] needs us. This may seem an odd statement after all… — James Lovelock
Undocumented immigrants produced $1.58 billion in state revenues, which exceeded the $1.16 billion in state services they received. However, local governments bore the burden of… — Carole Keeton
Hurricane Katrina, coupled with Hurricane Rita, which came promptly on Katrina's heels, claimed more than 1,200 American lives. Together, they caused more than $200 billion… — Ellen Tauscher
I was living in a house with five guys, eating their leftovers when they weren't watching. I went from that to having $1-billion-plus on paper. — Jeffrey Skoll
We are 13.7 billion light-years from the edge of the observable universe; that's a good estimate with well-defined error bars and with the available information,… — Simon Singh
I would be very happy to see 3.5 billion humans wiped out from the face of the earth within the next 150 or 200 years… — Unknown Author
It is unacceptable that more than 1 billion people are hungry every day while another billion are obese. — Paul Polman
Human beings have fabricated the illusion that in the 21st century they have the technological prowess to be independent of nature. Bees underline the reality… — Achim Steiner
There is no technical reason why we could not feed a world of nine billion people. Hunger is a matter of buying power, not of… — Louise Fresco
There are 7 billion people in the world, and 5.1 billion of them have a cell phone, and 4 billion have a toothbrush. — Chuck Martin
A magazine feature can reach hundreds of thousands of potential customers for a fashion brand. The way to reach a billion? Dress the actresses competing… — Tamara Mellon
The President sends us a billion-page paper that shows how he would spend the money if he were spending the money. He doesn't have the… — Michael Enzi
Over the last 40 years, I have built MW into a multi-billion dollar company with amazing employees and loyal customers who value the products and… — George Zimmer
Uber is a $3.5 billion lesson in building for how the world *should* work instead of optimizing for how the world *does* work — Aaron Levie
I remember we were out on the road when the album finally came out in February 1973. I listened to it in my hotel room… — Michael Bruce

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