Now, who today would claim that as a mere conceit of the human mind?

It's crazy, really, when you think about it.

Dreams can drive me mad.

Which was another insane idea, obviously.

He was officially diagnosed as suffering from wild paranoia in an aggressive form .

I was desperate to define him by his maddest edges.

It all started with a crazy idea in November of 2004.

The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.

So I decided I had this crazy epiphany at two in the morning.

And I think we need to support all of the dreams of the kids out there doing these crazy things.

So I wrote to the bank, and they thought for a while, and they said, It's a little crazy, but logical.

They have no interest in crazy ideas like engineering the whole planet.

You're a Californian utopian. You're a wild eyed optimist.

Insane idea, if you're a secularist person, like me.

Soon my crazy idea didn't seem so crazy.

This kind of thinking drives economists crazy, and it should.

They develop science that makes it easier and easier to do.

And unlike all of the other animals, we are obsessed with trying to figure it out.

So we might have a wild idea, but we re afraid to share it with anybody else.

And I think that there is some weird thing that I had died or something had happened.

I want to show you this clip because I do this kind of crazy thing where I do a cabaret act.

We're not all angry fanatics who want to kill the infidel.

Then I thought about the craziest idea of all the ideas to actually do it.

And I said to him, Mr. Brahimi, is this nuts, going for a global truce?

And if you want to go really crazy, 1,000 scales on a rattlesnake.

He has shown strength with his arm. He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.

He has shown strength with his arm. He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.

He hath shewed strength with his arm he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.

He hath shewed strength with his arm he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.

Now imagine someone as twisted as me trying to build a house.

CA I mean, a psychologist might say that's a recipe for breeding paranoia.

And finally, I'm going to get back to that sort of crazy idea about computers building computers.

It must be the core concern to be paid to the unilateral and arrogant policy which gives rise to this situation.

From just an idea that sounded crazy, you have the largest encyclopedia in the world.

Fads, Frenzies, and Finance

Now some of you might actually right now be thinking, It's downright crazy to have 10 TEDTalks summarized into just six words.

Men are restless, men are ambitious, men are compulsively mobile, and they all want a certificate.

When I was 16 in San Francisco, I had my breakthrough manic episode in which I thought I was Jesus Christ.

Now I want to stipulate, as the lawyers say, that LOLcats are the stupidest possible creative act.

So before I talk about what is, I think, the critical difference between LOLcats and Ushahidi, I want to talk about their shared source.

And what's crazy about this is that if you wanted to mix up who you were seeing on Twitter, it's literally a quick click away.

The boy, now, he says. Well, what my sister meant they look at each other, it's a knowing glance God, she's crazy!

I'm going to make an argument today that may seem a little bit crazy social media and the end of gender.

This idea that everybody deserves to get where they get to, I think it's a crazy idea, completely crazy.

What turns me on about the digital age, what excites me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing.