On the molecular scale, you find it's reasonable to have a machine that does a million steps per second, a mechanical system that works at computer speeds.
K. Eric Drexler

Our fifty principal cities contain 39.3 per cent of our entire German population, and 45.8 per cent of the Irish. Our ten larger cities only nine per cent of the entire population, but 23 per cent of the foreign.
Josiah Strong

Our share of the vote overall rose by less than 1 per cent - yes, that's right: less than 1 per cent.
Francis Maude

People gave us everything for free. We were allowed only so much film per picture, but there was no limit to the creativity. I like to say that they let us loose like wild dogs in the streets of Paris.
Helmut Newton

People often forget this - a vinyl album could only contain a maximum of 20 minutes per side!
Ken Hensley

Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.
Jean-Luc Godard

Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It's probably more Western than U.S. per se.
David Foster Wallace

Scientists at MIT and engineering schools all across America say that they could improve the fuel economy standards for the existing set of vehicles by 10 miles per gallon using existing technology, without compromising safety or comfort at all.
Ed Markey

Shearer could be at 100 per cent fitness, but not peak fitness.
Graham Taylor

Simply raising fuel economy standards for passenger cars and light trucks to 33 miles per gallon would eliminate our oil imports from the Persian Gulf.
Jan Schakowsky

Sixty per cent of people entering prison today are illiterate.
Jeffrey Archer

So tonight I propose one more step that I would rather not propose. I ask the most fortunate among us, those citizens earning over $100,000 per year, for one year, to pay an additional one percent on the income they receive.
Mitch Daniels

So-called defense now absorbs sixty per cent of the national budget, and about twelve per cent of the Gross National Product.
George Wald

The Asian nation's oil demand is expected to grow this year by 800,000 barrels per day and represents more than one-third of the total growth in global demand, according to the Energy Information Agency.
Gary Miller

The conflict in Darfur could escalate to where we're seeing 100,000 victims per month.
Nicholas D. Kristof

The fact of the matter is, most of our orders are not supersized. Less than five per cent are supersized - that's never mentioned. The whole issue has been supersized itself.
Jim Cantalupo

The fact that we're catching more fish per person than we've ever done before doesn't mean that there are not particular places where we've managed fisheries badly.
Bjorn Lomborg

The freelance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.
Robert Benchley

The great advance of personal computers was not the computing power per se but the fact that it brought it right to your face, that you had control over it, that were confronted with it and could steer it.
Kevin Kelly

The industrialization of China alone would increase by 90 percent the concentration of CO2 in our atmosphere and would at least increase the atmospheric CO2 by at least another 100 parts per million.
John Olver