Sometimes I wonder, if I knew how much I was going to be shunned, if I would have run back onto that burning school bus to save those children.

What on earth could be so urgent that I had to leave my open house in Studio City and drive all the way over the hill?

So I had to speed things along and deliver the morning edition so you could finally realise it had to be... none other than your humble typesetter and biggest fan.

Well, it's all a blur, but it must have been just before 5:00, because I... do my insulin shot regularly at that time, and I had to hurry in order to... do it.

It was dark But I felt vulnerable, so I hightailed it back into the club, and that's when I felt my heel break.

At which point your sense of civic duty kicks in, you rush to the phone, you call the authorities to report that your girlfriend may have become the victim of foul play.

You declined tea, and did not see the sister for whom you have no particular fondness, using my indisposition as an excuse to hurry back.

Bao Yongxiu: "My mother tells me to come home and get married, but if I marry now, before I have fully developed myself, I can only marry an ordinary worker, so I'm not in a rush."

But after a while, I thought, well, the only way is to just pick you up, shove Derek over to the other side of the room, and in the 10 seconds that I got before Derek came back, I could just play something very quickly for him to learn.

On the day after September 11 in 2001, I heard the growl of a sanitation truck on the street, and I grabbed my infant son and I ran downstairs and there was a man doing his paper recycling route like he did every Wednesday.

In order to teach you this game, I'm going to need some volunteers to come up onstage really quickly, and we're going to do a little hands-on demo.

What turned out to determine whether someone would stop and help a stranger in need was how much of a hurry they thought they were in -- were they feeling they were late, or were they absorbed in what they were going to talk about.

This is a rather recent example of urban clarity that I just love, mainly because I'm always late and I am always in a hurry.

And that's because with all the will in the world, the large-scale engineering infrastructure that we need to roll out rapidly to decarbonize the supply side of our energy system is just simply not going to happen in time.

When you went to get a shot, the words, "This won't hurt a bit, " became a conditioned stimulus when they were paired with pain of the shot, the unconditioned stimulus, which was followed by your conditioned response of getting the heck out of there.

The comma rushes over to help the struggling subordinates, but how will she help?

Not wanting to fall too far behind, President Eisenhower ordered the Navy to speed up its own project and launch a satellite as soon as possible.

And besides, growing old only postponed the inevitable, time seeing through what circumstance did not.

And the good-for-nothing who got it to the head, who tried to jump-kick me, and the other good-for-nothing who got it in the gut, is both scrambling back away from the dark figure before 'em.

And then I had to quickly learn international policy, because I was asked to work on the UN Convention that protects people with disabilities.

The day the war was over, I remember seeing this image -- one of blocked roads, of displaced people eagerly rushing south, back to their homes, regardless of what they would find.

Not only was I not moving a muscle, I had no social interaction with the hundreds of thousands of people that were hurtling past me, like me, with their eyes faced forward and their music blaring.

They decide they're going to take him back to his spaceship as soon as they can, and they plop him in a bicycle basket, and off they ride.

One day, I rushed to grab the sports page of the newspaper so my cellie could read it to me, and I accidentally picked up the business section.

Her kiss, I swear—if the Great Mother rushed open the moon like a gift and you were there to feel your shadow finally unhooked from your wrist.

But let's see if I can very quickly get into the book spiral, because I think it's, as I said, the most -- this is the main reading room -- the most unique part of the building.

So while many scientists around the world are racing to try to build a quantum computer, us cryptographers are urgently looking to reinvent encryption to protect us long before that day comes.

(Laughter) And I very quickly made a list of the things I was interested in, put them in a hierarchy, divided them into chunks of time and then made a plan, very much like in grade school.

In each one of these you can take some weeks, or months, or days depending on how you do it, or you can do them in a run, this meditation.

Coming back quickly, we see here the radio sphere that we jumped out of in the beginning, but these are positions, the latest positions of exoplanets that we've mapped, and our sun here, obviously, with our own solar system.