Speaking of which, I'm needed in CIC. Initial point in 5 seconds.

I told my girlfriend that, so we'd be stranded, she could get a little friendlier, which she did, if you know what I mean.

When I woke up this morning, Saul, you were gone, and it hit me that there hasn't been one day since I've been home that you were there at night and then you were still there the next morning.

Yes, I remember you saying once that you had been bullied, but I wasn't sure if you were telling the truth.

My best friend, Margaret, she was my chief bridesmaid, we were going to be best friends forever, we always said that, but I hardly saw her after that.

They come because they're tired of living dishonest lives, but if they reject their true path, often there's nowhere for them to return.

You know, Krummy, it just became clear to me that one day, just one day, me and you are gonna be besties.

And all the scientists -- (Laughter) yeah, all the scientists always laugh when I say that, because grant-writing never goes well.

(Laughter) So realizing I couldn't catch swimming penguins, she'd get these other penguins and bring them slowly towards me, bobbing like this, and she'd let them go.

And these older people come up to me now and they say, "Mr. Stevenson, you give talks, you make speeches, you tell people to stop saying we're dealing with terrorism for the first time in our nation's history after 9/11."

And he was looking at me. It's like, Yeah, I don't know if you noticed, but I'm the guy out in the parking lot recreating one of America's finest moments with fire extinguishers.

Until 2017 claimed that record -- (Laughter) and left many people longing for earlier decades, when the world seemed safer, cleaner and more equal.

In science, research builds upon the work and knowledge of others, or by seeing further, by standing on the shoulders of giants, to paraphrase Newton.

So, one confetto -- which happens to be the singular of confetti, in case you were wondering -- (Laughter) isn't very joyful, but multiply it, and you have a handful of one of the most joyful substances on the planet.

And he looked at his daughters, and he puts his hand on his chest, and he says, "So, Gov, tell me, who is ever going to hire me?

You'll pat your thighs and look wistfully off into the distance, or you'll say something like, "Hmm, makes you think --" when it really didn't, but what you're really -- (Laughter) — what you're really trying to do is change the topic.

I think you can, and I think if you can imagine that kind of argument, where the loser says to the winner and the audience and the jury can say, "Yeah, that was a good argument, " then you have imagined a good argument.

This time it's on the intensive care ward when a twentysomething resident that I've never met before tells me that Terence is dying, perhaps tonight.

I said, I'm flattered by that -- (Laughter) — because I'm a bit older, and he has a bit more net worth than I do.

And sometimes that involves inferring things about them, but if users don't want me to use that data, I think they should have the right to do that.

And we are thinking, no, no, no. It's not a heart attack. He can breathe, just out of his mouth. No, no, no, no, no.

And what it caused me to do was defend myself and my people and everything we believe in, because we're not stupid.

And when, about a decade ago, we finally asked the wives if they would join us as members of the study, many of the women said, "You know, it's about time."

I mean this because it's the first medium that actually makes the jump from our internalization of an author's expression of an experience, to our experiencing it firsthand.

I think twice every time I say that to her, because I mean it, but as a woman, particularly, I know that not every stranger on the street has the best intentions.

So we are born already knowing the social information, and that social information is not bad or good, it just prepares us for life, because we have to program our biology differently if we are in the high or the low social status.

And my wife was really proud of me when we started this, or that's what she said, she was really proud of me -- and so she would give me a hug, and I'm pretty sure she had her phone up and she was thinking, "Oh, is John from Harvard still single?"

(Laughter) When William Blake said that we are here to learn to endure the beams of love, he knew that your family would be an intimate part of this, even as you want to run screaming for your cute little life.

I want to know validation -- not just what you're telling me, but that somebody or something else out there says this makes sense.

Odds are I know somebody who's made a widget, and the minute you tell me that, I discount half of what you're saying from then on.

And if your instinct is to break up and leave, which is advice so many of us give our friends when they're in unhealthy relationships, that's not always the best advice.

(Laughter) And I accepted the statue, telling a billion people watching that the prime minister of Pakistan had pledged to change the law, because, of course, that's one way of holding the prime minister accountable.

And as soon as I said that, I discovered that the word "hat" was hidden in the word "whatever, " and that led me to the inevitable conclusion.

This is a group of people, pioneers in Berlin, a group called Klang Games, and they're completely insane, and they'll love me for saying that.

He does say that, and we think he's being unrealistic and sort of spiritual and highfalutin. "Nice for him to say it, but I can't do that."

She did this on the "Larry King Live" show on CNN six and a half years ago.

Dallas would say things to me -- he was six-foot tall -- and we would take him via robot to cocktail parties and things like that, as you do, and the robot was about five-foot-tall, which is close to my height.