Billion Quotes
961 quotes by 694 authors
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If the age of the Earth were a calendar year and today were a breath before midnight on New Year's Eve, we showed up a…
— Janine Benyus
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Do you realize that $150 billion of our tax money is given to the corporations, unions and wealthy people for tax breaks, special subsidies and…
— Doris "Granny D" Haddock
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Contrast 1968, when the CEO of General Motors took home, in pay and benefits, about sixty-six times the amount paid to a typical GM worker.…
— Tony Judt
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I am a creationist and an evolutionist. Evolution is God's, or Nature's method of creation. Creation is not an event that happened in 4004 BC;…
— Theodosius Dobzhansky
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Globalization was supposed to break down barriers between continents and bring all peoples together. But what kind of globalization do we have with over one…
— Mikhail Gorbachev
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With every inch of land on Earth now catalogued by our satellites, the stars are the next place we as a species must travel. And…
— Ben Parr
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80 percent of our global fish stocks are fully exploited, overly exploited or have collapsed. Two billion people rely on the oceans for their primary…
— Barton Seaver
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The brain is the most complicated organ in the universe. We have learned a lot about other human organs. We know how the heart pumps…
— Francis Collins
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We are made out of stardust. The iron in the hemoglobin molecules in the blood in your right hand came from a star that blew…
— Jill Tarter
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Sproxil will help combat the multi-billion dollar counterfeit drug market, empower customers, and give them the resources to make informed pharmaceutical purchasing decisions.
— Jacqueline Novogratz
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On a macro level, four billion people on Earth make less than four dollars a day.
— Jacqueline Novogratz
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When I left Apple, it had $2 billion of cash. It was the most profitable computer company in the world - not just personal computers…
— John Sculley
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Out of 1.6 billion Muslims, perhaps only 300 million actually understand the language of the Koran.
— Mosab Hassan Yousef
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Artificial intelligence will reach human levels by around 2029. Follow that out further to, say, 2045, we will have multiplied the intelligence, the human biological…
— Ray Kurzweil
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There are 3 billion women in the world, so there are 3 billion ways to be a feminist.
— Caitlin Moran
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I would only once have the opportunity to let my scientific career encompass a path from the double helix to the three billion steps of…
— James D. Watson
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I cannot possibly conceive of my planet Earth as the centre of a three-tiered universe. I know rather that the sun, around which my planet…
— John Shelby Spong
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Given that my title at Google is Chief Internet Evangelist, I feel like there is this great challenge before me because we have three billion…
— Vint Cerf
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The international limit on mobile texting, or SMS, is 160 characters. We wanted Twitter to be entirely readable and writable on every single one of…
— Biz Stone
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You have a guy like Bernie Madoff literally steal $80 billion, you know, AIG steal hundreds of billions, Goldman Sachs. Crime has changed so much,…
— Adam McKay
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