Billions Quotes - Page 13

• The citizens of Love Canal provided an example of how a blue-collar community with few resources can win against great odds (a multi-billion-dollar international corporation and an unresponsive government), using the power of the people in our democratic system.

  Lois Gibbs

  Winning, Odds, Government

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• Over two billion people now use the broadband Internet, up from perhaps 50 million a decade ago, when I was at Netscape, the company I co-founded.

  Marc Andreessen

  Two, People, Use

  “Software Will Eat The World” by Marc Andreessen, www.wsj.com. August 20, 2011.

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• What WE represent is the nexus of concrescent novelty that has been moving itself together, complexifying itself, folding itself in upon itself for billions and billions of years. There is, so far as we know, nothing more advanced than what is sitting behind your eyes. The human neocortex is the most densely ramified complexified structure in the known universe.

  Terence McKenna

  Moving, Eye, Years

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• Education is the only billion dollar industry that tolerates abject failure.

  Geoffrey Canada

  Dollars, Tolerate, Industry

  "Geoffrey Canada warns Michael Gove teaching unions 'kill' innovation" by Jeevan Vasagar, Allegra Stratton, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2010.

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• 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 net worth of $10 billion? Obviously I'm picking the former, although I would not mind both.

  Guy Kawasaki

  People, Mind, Stuff

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• My recommendation for SEO is very simple. It’s Write Good Stuff. In my mind, Google is in the business of finding good stuff. It has thousands of the smartest people in the world, spending billions of dollars to find the good stuff. All you have to do is write the good stuff; you don't need to trick it. Let Google do its job and you do your job.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Letting Go, Jobs, Writing

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• 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 that I have said about the way 20th century humans became almost a planetary disease organism. But it has taken [Earth] 2.5 billion years to evolve an animal that can think and communicate its thoughts. If we become extinct she has little chance of evolving another.

  James Lovelock

  Mistake, Taken, Animal

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• We are in a fool's climate, accidentally kept cool by smoke, and before this century is over billions of us will die and the few breeding pairs of people that survive will be in the Arctic where the climate remains tolerable.

  James Lovelock

  People, Climate, Fool

  "James Lovelock: The Earth is about to catch a morbid fever that may last as long as 100,000 years". www.independent.co.uk. January 16, 2006.

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• 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 $1.44 billion in uncompensated health care costs and local law enforcement costs not paid for by the state.

  Carole Keeton

  Law, Government, Care

  "Imagine a day without a Mexican" by Charles Garcia, www.cnn.com. March 3, 2012.

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• 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 in damage.

  Ellen Tauscher

  High Heels, Together, Damage

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• 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

  House, Guy, Paper

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• Everyone thinks they've won the Magical Belief Lottery. Everyone thinks they more or less have a handle on things, that they, as opposed to the billions who disagree with them, have somehow lucked into the one true belief system.

  R. Scott Bakker

  Thinking, Belief, Handle

  R. Scott Bakker (2009). “Neuropath”, p.59, Macmillan

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• My first published novel was written for teenagers, and there were rules laid down by the publisher: no sex, no smoking, no swearing. I blew up entire solar systems, I consigned billions of people to horrible death; they didn't seem to mind that at all. But no hanky-panky.

  Ben Bova

  Sex, Teenager, People

  "Men on Mars, Women on Venus". Interview with Jay McDonald, Bookpage, June 1999.

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• We are 13.7 billion light-years from the edge of the observable universe, That's a good estimate with well-defined error bars, Scientists say it's true, but acknowledge that it may be refined, And with the available information, I predict that I will always be with you.

  Simon Singh

  Errors, Light, Years

  "Katie Melua's bad science" by Simon Singh, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2005.

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• 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 and I am quite prepared to go myself with this majority... let us all look forward to the day when the catastrophe strikes us down!

  John Aspinall

  Years, Majority, Would Be

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• It is unacceptable that more than 1 billion people are hungry every day while another billion are obese.

  Paul Polman

  People, Hungry, Obese

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• 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 that we are more, not less, dependent on nature’s services in a world of close to seven billion people.

  Achim Steiner

  Independent, Reality, People

  "Bee deaths may signal wider pollination threat: U.N." by Alister Doyle, www.reuters.com. March 10, 2011.

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• Our economy is based on spending billions to persuade people that happiness is buying things, and then insisting that the only way to have a viable economy is to make things for people to buy so they’ll have jobs and get enough money to buy things.

  Philip Slater

  Jobs, Buying Things, People

  Philip Slater (2016). “The Pursuit of Loneliness: America's Discontent and the Search for a New Democratic Ideal”, p.182, Beacon Press

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• Bread is for us a kind of successor to the motherly breast, and it has been over the centuries responsible for billions of sighs of satisfaction.

  Margaret Visser

  Breastfeeding, Satisfaction, Bread

  Margaret Visser (2015). “The Rituals of Dinner: The Origins, Evolution, Eccentricities, and Meaning of Table Manners”, p.16, Open Road Media

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• 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 shortages.

  Louise Fresco

  People, World, Matter

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• 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

  Phones, Cells, People

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• 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 for attention at a highly televised event.

  Tamara Mellon

  Fashion, Actresses, Events

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• 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 authority to spend the money. He doesn't spend $1 of the money.

  Michael Enzi

  President, Paper, Pages

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• 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 service they receive at MW. Over the past several months I have expressed my concerns to the Board about the direction the company is currently heading.Instead of fostering the kind of dialogue in the Boardroom that has in part contributed to our success, the Board has inappropriately chosen to silence my concerns through termination as an executive officer.

  George Zimmer

  Past, Years, Loyal Customers

  "Fired Men's Wearhouse Founder Slams The Board In An Explosive Statement" by Ashley Lutz, www.businessinsider.com. June 19, 2013.

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• 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

  Uber, Doe, World

  Twitter post from Aug 23, 2013

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