Yeah, how soon's the drawing?

So, this actually became very clear to me with the March 30, 2005 Powerball drawing, where, you know, they expected, based on the number of ticket sales they had, to have three or four second place winners those are the people who match five or six Powerball numbers.

And now they're just looking for a little sticker that says Boardwalk.

And the way we're doing that is we're creating prize teams within the X PRIZE. We have a space prize team.

Well, we just had this lottery, and Pierre won me.

And I said, I'm going to win this award the South by Southwest Weblog award.

Now that's a big abstract number.

where I won First Prize in Harmony,

So they got the big Fields medal in mathematics, one of the three medals that people have received for proving things which I've seen without being able to prove them.

And a month later, TED phoned me up and gave me this award.

She asked me if I had the one she gave me... and I told her I had raffled it off.

There's only one way to settle this, and that's to draw straws.

And I set a goal. I said, I'm going to win an award, because I had never won an award in my entire life.

Two weeks ago I was in my studio in Paris, and the phone rang and I heard, Hey, JR, you won the TED Prize 2011.

This is a grave matter.

We won't smoke a cigarette?

I won a hobby prize for this setting.

An abstract image resembling an asterisk

Couldn't I catch him at home some evening for a few minutes?

Only to empty the pool will take an hour.

Why don't we pick out one family draw lots?

So we're pulling in about three billion comments a month, and then the magic happens.

How about some X Prizes for ocean exploration?

The one who's smoking now.

Eight authors submitted papers to compete for the Award, which consisted of a medal and a prize of 500 euros.

But fortunately, Henry Kramer, who put up the prize for that was a one mile flight put up a new prize for flying the English Channel, 21 miles.

What do I get, a silver cup?

And the prize has to be a verifiable thing, so it's not about just ideas.

So, as an organization, we put together a prize discovery process of how to come up with prizes and write the rules, and we're actually looking at creating prizes in a number of different categories.

In this case, life's greatest prize an appropriate mating partner.

When Liu learned that he had been awarded this year s Nobel Peace Prize, his first reaction was telling This prize is given to the victims of the Tiananmen Square massacre.

I will have one. Everyone smokes here in Milan.

Another machine pumps water for irrigation.

And there was a little an interesting theory about abstraction.

How do we draw lots?

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We raised the reward. We continued to increase the reward.

There ought to be a special Pulitzer Prize for the world's biggest sucker, McCleary.

An air race, gentlemen, initiated, sponsored and rewarded by the Daily Post.

Let's remind ourselves that cells are not an abstract concept.

But it felt like a booby prize.

And I think there are one or two more Ig Nobel Prize winners in this room.

And another person wrote, I would fill a big bathtub with money and get in the tub while smoking a big fat cigar and sipping a glass of champagne.

Those first two are portraits of mega jackpot winners years before and after their win.

Kissing a person who smokes is like licking an ashtray.