Right. Dumbest idea ever.

It's the biggest scientific experiment ever attempted.

For the first time in its history, the human race has the capacity to end extreme poverty.

It's one of the most successful games of all time.

For the first time, for example, there were two women ministers in the Cabinet.

This is the most glamorous picture, I think, ever.

Indeed, some people say it's the best idea anybody ever had.

The best growth rates they've had ever.

RCA, in probably one of the lousiest business decisions of all time, decided not to go into computers.

So you're looking at a piece of what is by far the largest home video collection ever made.

So it's the deepest geological bore hole ever drilled.

I'd love to talk to you about the first ever day of peace.

It had two to three to 400 times the toxic loads ever allowed by the EPA.

Why don't you support the process of the largest ever global truce?

This is the first time in the entire history of humanity that we've connected in this way.

For the first time in history, we have the knowledge, the technology, and the wealth to design a different world. We have the resources to make poverty history.

So let's do it. So here we go for the first time ever, a world premiere view of this spaghetti diagram as an ordered network.

It's said to be the most successful ever invention of a word by a known individual.

This was the first time a prime minister of India was given a parking ticket.

But for the first time in history, we have the technology we have the know how we have the cash we have the life saving drugs.

This will probably be the largest astronomical conference ever held in South Africa.

And it turned out that this machine happens to be the most reliable machine that we've ever made.

We launched the biggest illegal art exhibition ever.

Our Organization was founded at the end of the greatest conflict in the history of humankind to date.

What I'm going to show you next is the first fully autonomous robotic exploration underground that's ever been done.

What was the biggest selling drug of all time when it was introduced a few years ago?

So historically there has been a huge divide between what people consider to be non living systems on one side, and living systems on the other side.

And the World Health Organization also says that depression is the biggest epidemic that humankind has ever faced.

This is Lydia. Lydia is the first ever woman to graduate in mathematics in the Central African Republic.

In the histogram before you now, the blue bars represent the historical range of temperatures, going back about far as we have temperature data.

And the first one, in fact, is something that has been known for most of recorded history.

In what would no doubt be The most dramatic finale of a presidency ever!

Together, they achieved for the first time in history a unanimous consensus on a number of critical issues.

But then I took a trip to the National Museum of Natural History.

For the first time, the worldwide scientific community was able to predict and track such a crash.

Wadah Khanfar Actually, this may be the biggest story that we have ever covered.

On 15 May 2005, Ethiopia carried out its third ever multiparty elections.

But then one author arrived, and he changed the game forever.

That was the year when Queen Victoria was able, for the first time, to communicate with President Buchanan, through the Transatlantic Telegraphic Cable.

Well, we are searching for the highest and highly praised work of art ever achieved by mankind.

So you ask about a defining moment ain't no defining moment in American history for me.

So, one of the questions I ask myself is, was this the most distressing TED ever?

I'm going to go way out on a limb and say that it is the most diverting paper ever published in The Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine.

Then, approximately 25 percent of all patients never have any symptoms.

So the machine I'm going to talk you about is what I call the greatest machine that never was.