I wish I could hate the regime a thousandfold, and find its angels of death a thousand excuses.

I wish I could hate ISIS to death and find its teenage soldiers a thousand excuses.

I find myself scrambling to attend to utterly trivial e mails only to get past them to the (possibly) important ones that lie behind.

I go onto Twitter, there are all these strange words that I've never heard before FIFA, vuvuzela, weird jokes about octopi.

I find their courage and despair as moving today as I did when I myself was a young boy growing up in the safety of the Netherlands.

And I now find that bedtime stories used to be a box on my to do list, something that I dreaded, because it was so slow and I had to get through it quickly.

I find it very timely that, in remembering the use of atomic bombs 60 years ago in August 1945, the Norwegian Nobel Committee has this year highlighted the importance of nuclear non proliferation.

Designers are more trusted and more integrated into the business strategy of companies, and I have to say, for one, I feel very lucky at the progress that design has made since the first TED. Thanks a lot.

And then I find this All the evidence available in the biological sciences supports the core proposition that the cosmos is especially designed whole with life and mankind as its fundamental goal and purpose, a whole in which all facets of reality have their meaning and explanation in this central fact.