Ideas get shorter. They become sound bytes.

Now it's I want to have a feeling, I need to send a text.

Or it will be shoriter than we think.

I'd love to just talk about each one briefly.

I shall make only three short points.

I'm just going to ask you one quick question.

Trying to shorten the war by yourself?

This went from a single idea and a single implementation in East Africa in the beginning of 2008 to a global deployment in less than three years.

I wonder which way is the shortest.

And I wanted to see I want to dedicate this film to my father, Homer.

I thought this would be the shortest road to my bride.

I want to close with a quick little video.

I just want to share a little clip for you.

Phrases are syntactical units.

I want to share with you some ideas about the secret power of time, in a very short time.

109. Adoption of the constitutional reforms outlined in the Peace Agreements is probably the most important short term objective of the peace process.

I mean, if you have an idea worth spreading, surely you can put it into something shorter than 2,300 words.

And indeed, in the short time I've already been at TED, I see we're even closer than I thought we were before.

I just want to give you a quick overview.

Let me conclude by saying that terrorist financing is not a short term policy with short term goals.

In a few short years, the work of Ms. Williams and ICBL took the idea of a total ban on anti personnel mines from a grass roots campaign to an instrument of international cooperation.

But my background I want to tell you story only briefly.

You just want to see me in those nasty shorts.

David Fanton Hi, I'm David Fanton. I just want to say a couple quick things.

This is not shield mistakes, but acting by law.

... but it strikes me as a slightly unimaginative way of improving a train journey merely to make it shorter.

I can't sum up in a few minutes... what you've learned in eight years.

And I'd like to take you there, to that morning, for just a quick video.

Now I want to share with you a little video that I shot from a submersible.

So I want to end very quickly on a positive note.

I think the short answer is no, not unless we let it.

I want to just cut this short. We did this over and over again.

Very good, Li. Very good.

This is especially true for the Middle East. But travel there nowadays can be extremely disorienting indeed, developments that were impossible to contemplate just a few months ago are becoming reality.

You sit down and pull up your pants and where would it get you?

In just a few minutes, he showed multiple ways to play Yo Yo, which was so amazing.

Five little days!

This is where we have to think.

I'd like to end with a few verses of what I wrote at my father's cremation.

The PRESIDENT said that the brevity of the Conference made him reluctant to propose the establishment of any subsidiary body.

I'm trying to think of something, and you'd better do the same.

It's an idea, a silly idea that's been with me for years.

I think you've got something there.

You ought to try it sometime.

Childhood imagination will take you from cardboard to this in just a few years.