Well, we finally decided to have children... and I'm not pointing fingers, but it's not going well.

This marine comes back from the war, suffering from PTSD, finds crime on the rise in his neighborhood, decides to do something about it.

You're not gonna decide at the wrong time that a child should have a father, even if that father is a terrorist?

We were so impressed by the way you avoided arrest during challenge six, we've decided, what the hell, to count that as challenge seven completed as well.

I call it neo-evolution -- the new evolution that is not simply natural, but guided and chosen by us as individuals in the choices that we will make.

(Laughter) If you want to maximize the probability that you find the very best place, you should look at 37 percent of what's on the market, and then make an offer on the next place you see, which is better than anything that you've seen so far.

And the reason why I'm bringing up this first decision that you made today, and the inner snooze alarm, is because in any area of your life that you want to change, any – there's one fact that you need to know.

A few years ago, before my freshman year in High School, I wanted to play snare drum in the Foxboro High School Marching Band, and it was a dream that I just had to accomplish.

It is as if, one by one, the memories you used to harbor decided to retire to the southern hemisphere of the brain to a little fishing village where there are no phones.

MO: So, we decided to build them: a recovery in a box, something that could be deployed after every disaster by any local organizer.

But anyway, for some reason, I promised myself that I wasn't going to move, that I was going to do this thing that Mummy wanted me to do.

And now what she's looking at in New York are colleges, because she's determined to go to school in New York.

"So while I recognize that it would have been better for the world if Dylan had never been born, I've decided that it would not have been better for me."

And my last example of how constraints can boost creativity comes from the green, because this is a weird color, a crazy color, and you need to replace the green screens eventually and you must figure that out sooner rather than later.

Personally, I can't afford the luxury of arrogance anymore, let alone the luxury of certainty.

Immediately after my surgery, I had to decide what amounts of each of over a dozen powerful chemicals to take each day, because if I just took nothing, I would die within hours.

This simple but powerful idea was a call to arms, to advance technology for the elimination of my own disability, and ultimately, the disability of others.

What I'm saying is, we should be less quick to decide that that change is terrible, we should be less quick to impose our likes and dislikes about words on other people, and we should be entirely reluctant to think that the English language is in trouble.

it took me a while to understand it, but when I discovered around 24 years of age that I was much more comfortable with objects than with people, I finally decided to really embrace this passion.

Mohammed Khader, a Palestinian worker who spent two decades in Israel, as his retirement plan, he decided to build a four-floor house, only by the first field operation at his neighborhood, the house was flattened to the ground.

For instance, we set the best of intentions to exercise after the holidays, but actually, the majority of Americans find that their New Year's resolutions are broken by Valentine's Day.

Now the rules are that once you cash in and get married, you can't look ahead to see what you could have had, and equally, you can't go back and change your mind.

What they decided to do was they would first try and slow down this epidemic by rapidly building as many beds as possible in specialized treatment centers so that they could prevent the disease from spreading from those were infected.

And then, they have the power, which means, they can and do suspend and expel kids so that we're not playing school, they really decide.

Born in Ohio to Indian immigrants, I settled on the ultimate rebellion against my parents, moving to the country they had worked so damn hard to get out of.

There was a sense that they were each yearning for their tribe, but that comfort comes with compromise, because Will cannot commit to one woman.

I was determined to change my relationship with the cancer and I was determined to learn more about my cancer before doing anything as drastic as a surgery.

So rather than that question, I would propose we ask some more difficult questions, questions like: How do you decide who deserves your love and who does not?

The idea is to raise a transition fund from individual donors, corporations and institutions, but the deal is closed only after predetermined conditions are met and all funds committed.

So a few years ago I decided, well, I'm a journalist, I should see if I can do any better by going around the world and actually asking folks if and how they've tackled their big economic and political challenges.

So in 2000, when it was announced that the citizenship application fee was going to more than double from 95 dollars to 225 dollars, I decided it was time to apply before I could no longer afford it.

And I didn't really know what to tell them because once sonder started to take off, who am I to say what words are real and what aren't.

(Laughter) So if we acknowledge that cars will have to make trade-offs on the road, how do we think about those trade-offs, and how do we decide?

So the next time you go to check your phone, remember that if you don't decide how you're going to use the technology, the platforms will decide for you.

And so we decided to build, to realize the famous "Yes, but" chair.

So when I needed to come up with a wrestling name at the last minute and Jesse "The Body" Ventura was already taken -- (Laughter) I went with "Gator."

So we decided to embrace an open-source model of business -- so that anyone, anywhere in the world, could start a local chapter, and they can get involved in local problems.

And so we decided to look at the idea of sports, and create a youth sports center that doubled as an HIV/AIDS outreach center, and the coaches of the girls' team were also trained doctors.

After weighing your options, you decide to offer your life’s savings to one of the regulation wizards in return for the information, giving him your blank scorecard to fill out.

(Laughter) Now, BuzzFeed had recently signed on to the Facebook Live experiment, and so naturally, we decided to livestream the whole event on the internet to capture the moment when Ze would walk in and discover livestock in his office.

That was easy, but then I made the decision, maybe arbitrary, that they needed to be people of a certain age, which at that point, when I created this program, seemed really old.

But since it is the very nature of a game to have no object except amusement, (Laughter) that is, what distinguishes games from productive activity, (Laughter) it is quite impossible to say that any of a game's arbitrary rules is essential."

(Laughter) If we had thought that the rules of the sports we care about are merely arbitrary, rather than designed to call forth the virtues and the excellences that we think are worthy of admiring, we wouldn't care about the outcome of the game.

When we released that report, we did so three days after the new president, Kibaki, had decided to pal up with the man that he was going to clean out, Daniel arap Moi, so this report then became a dead albatross around President Kibaki's neck.