So he's now playing the piece that we just saw just a little better than I wrote it.

My whole life is now going to focus away from evil that I've been in since I was a kid to understanding heroes.

I'd been very ingrained in the dance world since I was a teenager.

I've known Jim since I was a child.

And you know, the oddest part is, when I was on my way traveling here to TED, I'll be honest, I was petrified.

I wouldn't think that lack of availability of an illegal substance could be termed a crisis.

Well, ever since I was a kid, I'd been thinking about systematizing knowledge and somehow making it computable.

But I knew that the kids would show up, and I believed it, and I told them every week what I expected out of them.

I've been traveling since I was very young, today I travel for work but I always find a chance to enjoy leaning about the culture and the local gastronomy

I have been a girl Manaschi (storyteller of the Epic of Manas) since I was 3 years old.

Ever since I was a little girl seeing Star Wars for the first time, I've been fascinated by this idea of personal robots.

My first year super gung ho going to teach American government, loved the political system.

I have always assumed that the Germans would eventually recognize that their interests lie in preserving the eurozone intact.

I may have had it for 10 years or more.

Well, for a long time, since I was in graduate school, I've been messing around making DNA chips that is, printing DNA on glass.

And I really haven't gotten off it. I think if you had told me when I was younger that I was going to grow up, and be in shoe stores, and people were going to scream out, There she is, the Vagina Lady!

And it is clear even now that this decision will have three long term consequences.

In fact, Medvedev will be Russia s most malleable leader since Tsar Nicholas II.

This game's called Spore. I've been working on it for several years.

I had already been in Egypt since January 19 and witnessed the birth the of glorious revolution.

I doodled a lot as a kid, and if you spend enough time doodling, sooner or later, something happens all your career options run out.

I've been with him since I was 17 years old. We've never had a separate bank account.

Since I was a boy, in my early childhood, I always wanted to be a musician, and, thank God, I made it.

And here I'm expecting at any moment, OK, they're going to turn the page, and I'm going to see the cars, I'm going to see the sketches, I'm going to see maybe some idea of where it's going.

If you were going to go and try to create SpaceShipOne, or any kind of a new technology, you have to fund that from the beginning and maintain that funding with an uncertain outcome.

I am, and have been since birth, legally blind.

I had seen her just last month alive and vivid as usual.

Before finding out that I would get a free pass this time, at least I had already started considering my options.

Really, Jim, you don't remember? I was just here with the Monet prints?

But some years ago I was on an elevator in Philadelphia, coming down.

Oh Civil War, where have you been for 18 years? I've missed you.

Ever since I started blogging about the political landscape in Trinidad and Tobago, I frequently get asked who I m voting for in the 2015 elections.

I have been living in the liberated part of Aleppo for a while, surrounded by wonderful friends whom I called during war the full half of the glass.

It may not seem that, but if you were a microwave, this is how you would view it.

I always thought that the notion that what happened in America would be decoupled from the rest of the world was a myth.

I will become a free photographer. I've dreamed about it for some time.

Fourteen years ago, I searched for beauty in the traditional things, in craft forms.

That was why, long ago, I invested in a European job board.

I'm going to be sharing with you how four years ago I almost died found out I was, in fact, already almost dead.

First, until just a few months ago, the conventional wisdom was that the US would avoid recession.

If you're telling me you're going to be the great developer of the map of the human genome, you'd better know what a human genome is.

Terrorism is likely to define the year 2006 as much as it has ever year since 2001.

The February elections will put those assumptions to their severest test in decades.

Six years ago, I was ready to conclude that the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was a major success.

Two years ago, I was the highest rated lecturer at MIT's entrepreneurial master's program.