So the answer hinges on the answer to three simple questions.

There's not a simple answer.

It is an easy answer.

Because simple answers may emerge.

My colleagues said, No, it's a simple solution.

So the more you step back, embrace complexity, the better chance you have of finding simple answers, and it's often different than the simple answer that you started with.

And if there is a partial answer, a more complete answer from me, it is to simply imagine.

And when I think of what I fear now, it's very simple.

Let me ask you a simple question with a really simple answer Who has the biggest military budget?

This is the simple design brief. I mean, it looks simple because the system, over 3.8 billion years, has worked this out.

So, the big the answer to this question is simple Pay 4,000 bucks and come to TED.

The answer is in fact simple and clear.

This geo engineering idea, in it's simplest form, is basically the following.

The answer, however, does not lie in easy stereotypes about some clash of civilizations.

It's a profound question, and what's even more amazing is how simple the answer is.

In order to answer that question you might think it's simple, but it's not simple.

I'm going to give you a little math problem, and I want you to just yell out the answer as fast as possible.

The answer that we've traditionally given to that is very straightforward, at least in the last 20 years You go to Finland.

CA That was a simple, powerful answer. GW Yes.

And the answer is quite simple the Chinese define these facilities as chemical facilities, not pharmaceutical facilities, so they don't audit them.

I'll give you the short answer.

I gave you three simple answers to three questions Give lentils to immunize people, provide free bed nets, deworm children.

And the simple answer is they can't. They're national.

Fourthly, our proposal is simple.

Well, you know, I think the answer is very simple working with Nature, working with this tool set that we now understand, is the next step in humankind's evolution.

Well, with experiments, what you can do is answer a simple question.

It's a very, very simple example, an easily stated question in probability, which every you're in good company everybody gets wrong.

Well, let me answer this simple question by giving you an example.

So what explains the sharp decline in China s economic output, in an environment of rapid credit expansion? The answer is simple the way the credit is being used.

And the answer is, simply, that if I hold up three fingers, you can count that easily, but if I hold up this, it's sort of hard to say that I just did seven.

When the design emerged it was surprisingly simple and straightforward.

We started looking at things like death rates in the 20th century, and how they'd been improved, and very simple things turned out.

Fourthly, the Uniting for Consensus proposal is simple.

In every single case, the answer is it depends.

It's more ideological than practical, but it turns out it's an easy question.

Often we can get clarity or the answer to a simple question very quickly, like this one, the recent Icelandic volcano.

Simplicity We know it when we see it but what is it, exactly? In this funny, philosophical talk, George Whitesides chisels out an answer.

If so, please provide a brief description of what these difficulties were.

The answer is simple staying on the safe side means, in our case, immobility.

Very few answers. I'm also wondering myself, what is simplicity?

I don't have the answer. But let me give you a simple concern or maybe statement, then.

It's so simple, so dry.

Simple. Romantic love is very simple.

TS Well, this painting here, I wanted to do something very simple, a simple, iconic image of two ripples interfering.

How did these economies manage to grow so fast for so long and overcome the serious problems that they faced along the way? The answer is simple resilience.