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At the moment, Europe depends on importing
millions
of tons of soy from South America, where its production contributes to global warming, to deforestation, to biodiversity loss, to feed livestock here in Europe.
At the same time we throw away
millions
of tons of food waste which we could and should be feeding them.
We've invested about 20 million dollars in 20 different enterprises, and have, in so doing, created nearly 20,000 jobs, and delivered tens of
millions
of services to people who otherwise would not be able to afford them.
This adds up to
millions
of pieces of reputation data on how well we behave or misbehave.
As it turns out, when tens of
millions
of people are unemployed or underemployed, there's a fair amount of interest in what technology might be doing to the labor force.
When we were ancient man — (Laughter) —
millions
of years ago, and we suddenly felt threatened by a predator, okay?
They want to know how China lifted 500 million people out of poverty in 30 years, how Mexico's Oportunidades program improved schooling and nutrition for
millions
of children.
For
millions
of years, on the grasslands of Africa, women commuted to work to gather their vegetables.
There's magic to love! (Applause) But I will end by saying that
millions
of years ago, we evolved three basic drives: the sex drive, romantic love and attachment to a long-term partner.
This is from Lahaina, and when we're walking along a beach, we're actually walking along
millions
of years of biological and geological history.
Nations are communities of
millions
of strangers who don't really know each other.
If the nation demands that I kill
millions
of people, then I will kill
millions
of people.
All that matters is that we continue to fan the flame of humanity by living our lives as the ultimate creative expression of who we really are, because we are all connected by
millions
and
millions
of straws.
But in all the many years that I have covered the Middle East, I have never been as optimistic as I am today that the gap between the Muslim world and the West is narrowing fast, and one of the many reasons for my optimism is that, because I know there are millions, hundreds of
millions
of people, Muslims like that old imam in Tunis, who are reclaiming this word and restoring to its original, beautiful purpose.
What happens in Peer, Inc. companies is that you have tens and hundreds and thousands and even
millions
of people who are creating experiments on this model, and so out of all that influence and that effort, you are having this exceptional amount of innovation that is coming out.
Some of these clinics are pulling in tens of
millions
of dollars a year in business.
We have more than 100 translators covering 63 languages, and we spend
millions
of dollars just in our little hospital.
I'm here to tell you the story of crazy love, a psychological trap disguised as love, one that
millions
of women and even a few men fall into every year.
So this would just be one more choice among
millions
of Internet forums.
Of the
millions
of projects on the Scratch website, there's everything from animated stories to school science projects to anime soap operas to virtual construction kits to recreations of classic video games to political opinion polls to trigonometry tutorials to interactive artwork, and, yes, interactive Mother's Day cards.
There must be
millions
of planets in the Milky Way, and as Carl Sagan insisted for many years, and was laughed at for it, there must be billions and billions in the universe.
And they think these are super-flares,
millions
of times more powerful than any flares we've had from our Sun so far.
Combine that with a world value survey, which measures the political opinions and, fortunately for me, the savings behaviors of
millions
of families in hundreds of countries around the world.
Millions
of people have lost the ability to translate these brainstorms into action, into movement.
But worse than that, it is causing hunger, poverty, violence, social breakdown and war, and as I am talking to you,
millions
of men, women and children are suffering and dying.
There are great discoveries yet to be made down there, fantastic creatures representing
millions
of years of evolution and possibly bioactive compounds that could benefit us in ways that we can't even yet imagine.
Well, one way to go faster is to take advantage of technology, and a very important technology that we depend on for all of this is the human genome, the ability to be able to look at a chromosome, to unzip it, to pull out all the DNA, and to be able to then read out the letters in that DNA code, the A's, C's, G's and T's that are our instruction book and the instruction book for all living things, and the cost of doing this, which used to be in the hundreds of
millions
of dollars, has in the course of the last 10 years fallen faster than Moore's Law, down to the point where it is less than 10,000 dollars today to have your genome sequenced, or mine, and we're headed for the $1,000 genome fairly soon.
It's such a rare disease, it would be hard for a company to justify spending hundreds of
millions
of dollars to generate a drug.
Hundreds of
millions
of people use it in hundreds of countries, and so on.
And the crowd was full of IBM V.P.s and programmers cheering on their little darling, having poured
millions
of dollars into this hoping against hope that the humans screw up, and holding up "Go Watson" signs and just applauding like pageant moms every time their little darling got one right.
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