You filthy trickster!

and a trickster...

One is, another characteristic of trickster is that the trickster has to walk this fine line.

Trickster is a change agent.

Waste of bullets for you, trickster.

That's an actual quality of the trickster.

Ladies and gentlemen, you're thinking, 'What a trickster.'

And another attribute of the trickster is smart luck.

The trickster has a mind that is prepared for the unprepared.

That accidents, that Louis Kahn, who talked about accidents, this is another quality of the trickster.

And the one final quality I want to say about trickster is that he doesn't have a home.

I was thinking about what Moshe Safdie said yesterday about beauty because in his book, Hyde says that sometimes trickster can tip over into beauty.

And then coming to this conference, I realized that most everybody here shared those same qualities because really what trickster is is an agent of change.

And I was sort of, as I was starting to analyze what exactly it is that I do, I read a book called Trickster Makes This World, by Lewis Hyde.

And over the course of 30 years, I recorded traditional tales from Alex, mostly mythological accounts of Wy ghet, the trickster transformer of Gitxsan lore who, in his folly, taught the people how to live on the land.

Philosopher comedian Emily Levine talks about science, math, society and the way everything connects. She's a brilliant trickster, poking holes in our fixed ideas and bringing hidden truths to light. Settle in and let her ping your brain.

That, and I will say this to the scientists, that the trickster has the ability to hold his ideas lightly so that he can let room in for new ideas or to see the contradictions or the hidden problems with his ideas.