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Basically, we convert the entire Web into a big equation, with several hundred million variables, which are the page ranks of all the Web pages, and billions of terms, which are the links. And we're able to solve that equation.
Sergey Brin
Big
Hundred
Several
Ranks
Solve
Able
Entire
Web
Variables
Terms
Equation
Links
Which
Convert
Page
Pages
Billions
Million
Basically
According to the standard model billions of years ago some little quantum fluctuation, perhaps a slightly lower density of matter, maybe right where we're sitting right now, caused our galaxy to start collapsing around here.
Seth Lloyd
Matter
Fluctuation
Our
Slightly
Collapsing
Some
Perhaps
Around
Quantum
Caused
Years
Years Ago
According
Density
Model
Sitting
Maybe
Where
Little
Galaxy
Lower
Standard
Billions
Now
Right
Start
Here
Recent results from astronomers who study the occasional gravitational lensing of unknown worlds by intervening stars suggest that orphan planets could be at least as numerous as the stars. In other words, there could be hundreds of billions of orphan worlds shuffling through our galaxy.
Seth Shostak
Words
Stars
Numerous
Other
Worlds
Unknown
Intervening
Our
Hundreds
Results
Could
Through
Study
Occasional
Least
In Other Words
Galaxy
Planets
Who
Billions
Orphan
Shuffling
Gravitational
Suggest
Recent
Even if the Moon didn't exist - even if it had been vaporized billions of years ago by cantankerous Klingons - there would still be (somewhat lower) tides raised by the Sun. For creatures dependent on the oceans' ebb and flow, life could go on.
Seth Shostak
Life
Moon
Sun
Would
Somewhat
Could
Had
Tides
Still
Oceans
Go
Been
Years
Exist
Years Ago
Dependent
Lower
Billions
Even
Creatures
Flow
Raised
We can no better imagine what will be happening on the moon 500 years from now than Columbus could imagine contemporary Manhattan. Except to say that it will be a place familiar to billions of people.
Seth Shostak
People
Better
Will
Moon
Say
Except
Could
Columbus
Contemporary
Years
Familiar
Than
Manhattan
Happening
Place
Billions
Now
Imagine
Clearly, unless thinking beings inevitably wipe themselves out soon after developing technology, extraterrestrial intelligence could often be millions or billions of years in advance of us. We're the galaxy's noodling newbies.
Seth Shostak
Technology
Intelligence
Thinking
Extraterrestrial
Unless
Out
Could
Wipe
Advance
Developing
Soon
Clearly
Inevitably
Years
Often
After
Galaxy
Themselves
Us
Billions
Beings
Millions
I see this as my humanitarian legacy. We're prepared to pay billions.
Sheldon Adelson
Pay
See
Legacy
Billions
Prepared
Humanitarian
Big government conservatives are spending trillions and wasting billions. Republicans are no longer the party of fiscal conservancy, but the party of runaway spending and corruption.
Sherrod Brown
Government
Corruption
Big
Party
Conservatives
Spending
Runaway
Longer
Fiscal
Big Government
Republicans
Billions
Wasting
This Congress has promised all manner of border security and port security to the tune of billions of dollars... yet we have - to date - funded our promises for port security at only $900 million. That's quite a distance between what we say and what we actually do.
Solomon Ortiz
Promises
Congress
Our
Distance
Say
Promised
Security
Border
Border Security
Only
Date
Between
Dollars
Quite
Tune
Manner
Billions
Billions Of Dollars
Port
Port Security
Actually
Million
Ex-Im Bank doles out billions of dollars of loans and insurance subsidies every year and has become the poster child for corporate cronyism in Washington. Think of the bank as food stamps for America's Fortune 500 companies.
Stephen Moore
Food
Become
Year
Every
Think
Corporate
Out
Poster
Poster Child
Food Stamps
Insurance
Dollars
Child
America
Subsidies
Bank
Stamps
Fortune
Companies
Billions
Billions Of Dollars
Washington
Loans
Social media has created a legion of social delinquents, billions of people speaking not their minds but their spleens, venting everything from the gum-cracking snark befitting a hair-twisting mallrat to the froth-flecked rage of a bell tower marksman.
Steven Weber
People
Social Media
Rage
Everything
Minds
Tower
Legion
Social
Created
Speaking
Billions
Media
Bell
I'm blessed to have these billions of dollars.
Stewart Rahr
Blessed
Dollars
Billions
Billions Of Dollars
I am not insulted by billions of Christians, Muslims and Jews believing there is a God and praying to this nonexistent deity on a regular basis.
Tariq Ali
God
Jews
Muslims
Deity
Insulted
Nonexistent
Am
Praying
Regular
Regular Basis
Billions
Believing
Christians
Basis
We shouldn't let anti-science zealotry shut down the ability to produce low-cost, quality food for billions across the globe.
Ted Cruz
Food
Quality
Down
Ability
Globe
Low-Cost
Produce
Across
Billions
Shut
If Jesus is the Son of God in human flesh, He's one of a kind of the 13 billions of people who have ever lived.
Tim LaHaye
God
Son
People
Kind
He
Human
Flesh
Who
Billions
Lived
Ever
Jesus
Streaming is something that's going to require tons of billions of dollars of investment, building server farms close to users and 5G and everything else.
Tim Sweeney
Building
Else
Everything
Everything Else
Something
Investment
Dollars
Close
Going
Require
Farms
Users
Billions
Billions Of Dollars
Streaming
Server
Tons
You'll be using digital currency. I think really what will happen is you'll use a combination of bitcoin, ether, your devices, the 'Internet of Things.' We've got billions of devices coming online.
Tyler Winklevoss
You
Bitcoin
Internet
Digital
Will
Think
Online
Combination
Devices
Got
Coming
Currency
Happen
Ether
Really
Use
Your
Billions
Using
Things
Billions of people are being left behind by economic growth.
Winnie Byanyima
People
Economic
Economic Growth
Left
Behind
Being
Billions
Growth
Story was that human civilization started to develop with first social network. Emerged where population concentration was high. Helped propel to where we are now. Facebook is next step of creating a huge human brain to embrace hundreds of million, possibly billions of people.
Yuri Milner
Facebook
People
First
Hundreds
High
Possibly
Embrace
Emerged
Propel
Network
Civilization
Develop
Step
Concentration
Brain
Huge
Human
Where
Human Brain
Human Civilization
Story
Social
Next
Creating
Next Step
Helped
Billions
Population
Now
Million
Started
What exactly is it that humans do that is specifically human? There has to be something. How odd it is for billions of people to be alive, yet not one of them is really quite sure of what makes people people.
Douglas Coupland
People
Alive
Exactly
Something
Sure
Makes
How
Odd
Quite
Human
Them
Really
Billions
Specifically
Humans
Mom and pop shops paying taxes while Amazon got billions just to come to town didn't seem right, and, post-FoxxConn, people are less likely to fall for the promised jobs numbers.
Zephyr Teachout
Mom
People
Fall
Jobs
Promised
Seem
Town
Come
Likely
Got
Amazon
Shops
Just
While
Taxes
Pop
Paying
Less
Billions
Right
Numbers
Corporations like Google, Facebook, Amazon, all of these large companies, are making tens or hundreds of billions of dollars off of monetising people's data.
Brittany Kaiser
Facebook
People
Google
Hundreds
Corporations
Data
Tens
Like
Making
Dollars
Amazon
Off
Companies
Billions
Large
Billions Of Dollars
I think some people have this thing where just because you do singles that means you're not a real artist. It's like hold on a minute - I'm selling millions of records here and been streamed billions of times... How can I not be taken as a real artist just because these songs are singles?
Jonas Blue
You
People
Some People
Think
I Think
Minute
Some
Records
Songs
Taken
Like
Because
How
Real
Real Artist
Singles
Been
Selling
Times
Artist
Just
Where
Just Because
Hold
Means
Billions
Thing
Here
Millions
My tax cut would cut hundreds of billions of dollars. So to do it, you have to be willing to cut spending, too. But if you were to cut hundreds of billions of dollars in taxes, that money's left in communities.
Rand Paul
You
Money
Too
Spending
Hundreds
Willing
Would
Were
Dollars
Left
Tax
Tax Cut
Taxes
Cut
Communities
Billions
Billions Of Dollars
They realize that spending millions to save billions is just good business.
Jack Abramoff
Good
Business
Spending
Just
Realize
Billions
Millions
Save
If CEO compensation was performance-driven, which I believe it was in IBM's case, nobody would ever argue. If the shareholders didn't make billions and billions of dollars, I wouldn't make millions of dollars. My salary was the same for 10 years. It was all performance-based.
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.
Believe
I Believe
Would
Case
IBM
Argue
Shareholders
Nobody
Make
Dollars
Years
Salary
Same
Which
CEO
Billions
Billions Of Dollars
Ever
Compensation
Millions
Millions Of Dollars
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