Desperate times call for desperate measures.

This has been a very pleasant moment.

And very, very difficult times.

It's a very important period it's roughly half the period when we've been fully modern humans on the planet.

Ice in my ice chest melted within hours, and it was pretty miserable.

It seemed so, well, risky at a time like this, being rude to God.

This was sent to me by somebody who is an aficionado of civil defense procedures, but the fact of the matter is that America's gone through a very hard time.

Now this moment so fascinates me.

These are grim economic times, fellow TEDsters, grim economic times indeed.

This is very rough, and this is sort of smooth, and this perfectly smooth.

This is really, really difficult.

But it is possible to create a father image... especially in a case like yours where you felt so badly in need of one.

She knew she was dying when she give me this. A very strange girl, very sweet.

The OSCE has also changed dramatically in that time, evolving from a conference into a highly sophisticated organization.

And it wasn't easy. It wasn't easy in those days.

I really believe that we stand at a very important point in history.

And when it happens, it's bad, it's nasty.

This is very, very important because this is the system, this is the crucible, out of which life on the planet came, and it's now time for us to understand it.

And this thing, it's deeply, deeply satisfying to me.

We found in our gang and, admittedly, this was not really sort of a standard situation this was a time of intense violence of a lot of gang wars as this gang actually became quite successful. But there were costs.

I couldn't agree more. Science couldn't agree more.

And that's a much, much more difficult lesson to take into account.

In fact I love the fact, I just have to mention this Rome in fact used to import oysters from London, at one stage. I think that's extraordinary.

This is a tough stage and a very lonely time.

The first great epoch is commonly called the Critical Period.

I know it's extremely cruel to awaken anyone at such an hour.

Nice weather we're having this time of year, don't you think?

When I was a very young child, I was extremely introverted and very much to myself.

To the right, on top, you see a theory which is very, very fashionable.

It's done very well. I love this puzzle.

I think that's a big, big problem.

It's as interesting a side effect as it could be.

This is a very grave matter, very grave.

I was lucky enough that I visited Mumbai, my house, back for a vacation.

Now, when I was a young man 40 years ago, the country was very, very poor with lots and lots and lots of people living in poverty.

It was a really extraordinary moment.

That's why it's a very interesting time to be in because with just a little bit of effort, we can shift it one way or the other.

The town was burned down it was in the middle of winter, and it was a very, very severe winter.

By this age the brain controls very refined perceptual abilities.

Well, I... I had a terribly ordinary childhood, I'm afraid.

It was around this time we went from 1K to 16K, which was quite the leap.

It's something very personal.

I knew right where they were coming from.

That's really, really, really short.

I saw first hand a system that is incredibly complex and then at the same time, like everything beautiful in nature, is utterly simple.