#billion

'I don't need brains,' says the billionaire contemptuously. 'I'm brainy enough myself!' The broker cries out in desperation, 'What, in heaven's name, do you want?' 'Goodness,' is the answer. ↗

— Konrad Lorenz

#billionaire #brains #brainy #broker #cries

A billion could live off the earth; 6 billion living as we do is far too many, and you run out of planet in no time. ↗

— James Lovelock

#could #earth #far #live #living

I absolutely don't have $20 billion. But I'd love to, right? ↗

— Jack Ma

#billion #i #love #right

I know one thing: There are a billion Islamic people in the world today, and there will be about 2 billion by the time we're dead. They're not going to give up their religion. ↗

— Chris Matthews

#billion #by the time #dead #give #going

Aquatic invasive species are destroying the environment, damaging fisheries, and costing American taxpayers billions of dollars annually. ↗

— John M. McHugh

#american taxpayers #annually #billions #costing #damaging

It's sad when you can't make everyone happy, though. It's impossible but, at the same time, you still hope. You think, 'Maybe I can do it,' but you know you can't. But gosh, if I had to rely on giving people what they wanted, I would have had to write 40 billion different books and even then, I wouldn't get it right. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#books #different #even #everyone #get

In the United States in 2009, more than 10.2 billion trips were taken on transit trains and buses. So far, the nation has not experienced a major transit attack since Sept. 11, but the March 2010 Moscow subway bombings and earlier train attacks in London and Mumbai show that we must be prepared. ↗

— John Mica

#attacks #be prepared #billion #bombings #buses

The mystery of that damn virus has been generated by the $2 billion a year they spend on it. ↗

— Kary Mullis

#billion #damn #generated #mystery #spend

Why would I spend $5 billion for something in order to wreck it? ↗

— Rupert Murdoch

#i #order #something #spend #why

Since 1850, burning of fossil fuels, coal, oil and natural gas has increased 100 times to produce energy as the world has industrialized to serve the world's more than 6 billion and growing population. ↗

— John Olver

#burning #coal #energy #fossil #fossil fuels