Sir, I hate to tell you this, but I think it's been playing with us the entire time, just waiting to see how we'd react.

That voice, you know, it's... it's a pretty good bet she smokes.

A proprietary blend of nettles, herbs, and possibility.

I could suspend Jane for this, but I think what happened was a cry for help.

Well, that's strange, because it was during class and there was no one else in the bathroom because I checked.

We, uh, apologize for any violation of decorum, but as it turns out, it was absolutely necessary.

It's called that because it's not an island at all, it's a huge giant.

(Video) Ray: It was Crease Limestone, and that was produced by sea creatures 350 million years ago in a nice, warm, sunny atmosphere.

And I crack up at this piece, because when I see it I know that's French angora and all antique German ribbons and wool that I got in a Nebraska mill and carried around for 10 years and then antique Chinese skirts.

We were standing out in the desert all alone and, thinking about my house, he said, "Did it ever occur to you if you built stuff more permanent, somewhere in 2000 years somebody's going to like it?"

All right, all right, so -- That was pretty cool, and so I was able to accomplish my dream of playing snare drum with the marching band, as I believe I can do for all of my dreams.

I was ending middle school, starting high school -- I'm a sophomore now — and I was trying to reconcile all of these differences that you're told you can't be when you're growing up as a girl.

I did love some great designs as I was growing up: The HP 35S calculator -- God, I loved that thing. Oh God, I wish I had one.

Ron Howard: Buzz Aldrin came up to me and said, "Hey, that launch footage, I saw some shots I'd never seen before. Did you guys, what vault did you find that stuff in?" And I said, "Well, no vault, Buzz, we generated all that from scratch."

PP: They believe. (Screams) (Music) (Applause) JT: Ohhhh. What was that?

(Laughter) RB: Ah, that was quite fun. That was a wonderful car-boat in which -- CA: Oh, that car that we -- actually we -- it was a TEDster event there, I think.

SS: Well, it's an important part of the journey. So I had -- TEDWomen -- the original one was in D.C. -- so I live here, so I had gotten on a plane the day before, and my daughter was three, she was clinging to my leg: "Mommy, don't go."

We put it in Eddie's sleeve, and so the hand that you see -- that's not Eddie's hand, that's Tom's. So Tom is playing two roles.

I went back, and a little bit like the boy walking away from the tree with his goats, very disgruntled, going, that didn't work, It wasn't what I wanted to communicate.

In the situation with the obnoxious-football-fan-turned-good-samaritan, your brain says, "Well, in my experience, pretty much anyone would lend someone their umbrella, but the way this guy acted at the football game, that was unusual."

The basic task of perception is to take an image like this one and say, "That's a bird, " which is a very simple thing for us to do with our brains.

My kids saw the movie, and afterwards they came to me and they said, "So, Dad, so -- so -- that character -- that's Jill, right?"

For those who don't know what arcing is, do you remember the Emperor, when he shoots electricity out the ends of his fingers -- (Laughter) that would be kind of like arcing.

What pen to use, what color to use, what you should write, what font you should use, don't mess up the margins, this has to be this big, this has to be that big.

Furthermore, if you're in pain, if you're hungry, if you're exhausted, your frontal cortex is not going to work as well, part of the brain whose job it is to get to the amygdala in time saying, "Are you really sure that's a gun there?"

So here they are having a meeting to discuss whether it was a good idea, and after a little while, they conclude, no, this was a terrible idea.

1985, right at the center of the Reagan years -- that's, we're, there's, we've, it's.

Then she looked at me in the eyes and she said, "And mommy, I was so proud to say that you were my mom."

Wall Street noticed that this was a revolutionary technology, which it was, but then six months later, when it hadn't revolutionized all business models, they figured, well, that was wrong, and then we had this bust.

I remember when I arrived, the sponsor family embraced me, and they literally had to teach me everything from scratch: this is a microwave, that's a refrigerator -- things I'd never seen before.

I remember the time when my mother used to dress me up as a little girl -- that's me there -- because she wanted a girl, and she has only boys.

Now, adults seem to have a prevalently restrictive attitude towards kids, from every "Don't do that, don't do this" in the school handbook, to restrictions on school Internet use.

And it appears that, some night in 1947 she left her physical space and was missing all night, until she reappeared in the morning.

(Laughter) Well, so the newspaper in Cambridge published an article about that "discovery" and received the next day 5, 000 letters from people saying, "But that's simply a Mandelbrot set very big."

And what would you say to, for example, the, you know, the parent of someone whose son is out serving the U.S. military, and he says, "You know what, you've put up something that someone had an incentive to put out.