Quotes by Average Unfortunately, in rich-world health, innovation is both your friend and your enemy. Innovation is inventing organ replacement, joint replacement. We're inventing ways of doing new things that cost $300,000 and take people in their 70s and, on average, give them an extra, say, two or three years of life. And then you have to say, given finite resources, should we fire two or three teachers to do this operation? Bill Gates average teacher years When I was trying to figure out why lives have improved so much in the last 300 years, where we've gone from a third of kids dying before 5 to - by 1990 it was down to 10% - now it's down to 5%. And saying why, over all history, there were smart people, but that number didn't change. Average life span didn't change. What's magical about what's been deemed the Industrial Revolution? It's really energy intensity. Bill Gates smart average kids The interview process tests not what the applicant knows, but how well they can process tricky questions: If you wanted to figure out how many times on average you would have to flip the pages of the Manhattan phone book to find a specific name, how would you approach the problem? If a spider fell to the bottom of a 50-foot well, and each day climbed up 3 feet and slipped back 2, how many days would it take the spider to get out of the well? . Bill Gates names average book My grade point average went from a 2.2 to a 4.0 over the summer. I wanted to get straight A's. I decided to get straight A's. I didn't want people to think I was dumb. And when you get straight A's once, its easier. Bill Gates summer average thinking Now, we put out a lot of carbon dioxide every year, over 26 billion tons. For each American, it's about 20 tons. For people in poor countries, it's less than one ton. It's an average of about five tons for everyone on the planet. And, somehow, we have to make changes that will bring that down to zero. Bill Gates zero average country Let's face it, the average computer user has the brain of a Spider Monkey. Bill Gates spiders brain average It's hard to have a relationship in this business...it's gonna take a very special woman...or a bunch of average ones. Bill Hicks special bunch average I don't do drugs anymore... than, say, the average touring funk band. Bill Hicks humor average funny We all have strengths, weaknesses and blind spots. In fact, an average person has 3.4 blind spots. Bill Hybels blind-spots weakness average In an average moral universal society, good people will try to do the right thing, and psychotic people will do wicked things. But if you want to make good people do wicked things, you need them to be religious. Bill Maher religious average people Emergency rooms will be used the way they were intended to be used: not for primary care, but for when the average freaky American get some strange object up his ass. Bill Maher average way rooms Trump is a little tone-deaf to the average American. He unveiled his slogan this week: 'Are you better off than you were four wives ago?' Bill Maher four wife average The models that have been constructed agree that when, as has been predicted, the level of carbon dioxide or its equivalent in other greenhouse gases doubles from pre-Industrial Revolution concentrations, the global average temperature will increase, and that the increase will be 1.5 to 4.5 degrees Celsius or 3 to 8 degrees Fahrenheit... In Dallas, for instance, a doubled level of carbon dioxide and other gases like methane, would increase the number of days a year with temperatures above 100 degrees from 19 to 78 each year. Bill McKibben numbers average years Fossil fuel is very seductive stuff. [John Maynard] Keynes once said that, as far as he could tell, the average standard of living from the beginning of human history to the middle of the eighteenth century had perhaps doubled. Not much had changed, and then we found coal and gas and oil and everything changed. We're reaping the result of that, both ecologically and socially. Bill McKibben seductive oil average I have a perfectly average skewed perception of myself. We often don't know what we're like. Bill Nighy perception knows average My expectations are greater than the average fan's but, I'm more realistic than the top prognosticators. Bill Parcells expectations average sports The average American is for the underdog, but only on the condition that he has a chance to win. Bill Vaughan underdog winning average A coach will impact more people in one year than the average person will in an entire lifetime. Billy Graham impact average years On average, global warming is not going to harm the developing world. Bjorn Lomborg global-warming average world And also a lot of Muslims are no more religious then the average Swede. For them it's natural that human rights come first. Bjorn Ulvaeus religious rights average «345678910111213»
