These are estimates that are DONE by the experts as to how much they expect we could get from the first LEASE sale that would TAKE place in ANWR, and the ESTIMATE is about $2.5 BILLION.

I've seen teams SPEND £150 MILLION and get nowhere near the CHAMPIONS League. It has TAKEN Manchester City a billion to get there. There are no guarantees.

As mayor, my New Deal for New YORK will be a massive infrastructure, STIMULUS, and JOBS PROGRAM consisting of a $10 BILLION investment.

Most of us REALLY aren't horribly unique. There are 6 billion of us. Put 'em all in one ROOM and very few would stand out as individuals. So maybe we ought to think of worth in terms of our ability to get along as a PART of nature, RATHER than being the lords over nature.

There are 4 billion cell phones in use today. MANY of them are in the hands of market vendors, rickshaw drivers, and others who've historically lacked access to education and OPPORTUNITY. INFORMATION networks have become a great leveler, and we should use them together to help lift people out of poverty and give them a freedom from WANT.

When you think about it, we sold about 120 million RECORDS, which relates to about £1.2 billion in the U.K. ECONOMY. We've seen very LITTLE of that.

If you can COUNT your MONEY, you don't have a BILLION DOLLARS.

I would only once have the OPPORTUNITY to let my scientific CAREER encompass a path from the double helix to the three billion steps of the HUMAN genome.

There's over a BILLION PEOPLE on this PLANET that don't have access to clean drinking WATER.

The body itself is an information processor. Memory resides not just in brains but in every cell. No wonder genetics bloomed ALONG with information theory. DNA is the quintessential information molecule, the most ADVANCED MESSAGE processor at the cellular level - an ALPHABET and a code, 6 billion bits to form a human being.

The VALUE of STREAMING platforms is estimated at a few billion dollars, and creators can only afford a pizza without pepperoni at the end of the year with the revenues. Without musicians, all those platforms wouldn't exist, so we urgently need an appropriate and SUSTAINABLE business MODEL for musicians for the 21st century.

By the time Obama came into office, WASHINGTON had already agreed over a period of a few WEEKS to a $700 billion government infusion into the world banking system. Nothing of the sort had EVER been done before, and it was done spit spot with very LITTLE NATIONAL debate.

When OBAMA was inaugurated, he and his team had an INSIGHT - though whether the insight was conscious or not I don't know. But it was this: The TARP $700 billion PRICE tag was a NEW kind of model.