T.E.D. quotes

03 Mar 2008 8:48

Every year, some of the most interesting and brilliant people in the world come together at the T.E.D. (Technology, Entertainment, Design) conference. Part of what makes it so interesting and productive is that it isn't just people in one field talking to each other
We learn so much more and make totally new ways of seeing things possible when we aren't afraid to be open. As a human being, I love meeting people I don't know, going to new places, hearing other points of view and experiencing new things. * Students know that I�m the one who is always advocating trying a new genre of book when going to the library. You already know what you know and like. I�ve heard that the Musicians Institute does the same thing. You�re good at this instrument and this style, fine. Let�s expose you to something different. What you bring back will end up enriching what you can do with the first one. I don�t enjoy being with narrow minded people with narrow little interests who are afraid of trying new things and new ideas. Someday, I�d love to attend T.E.D but meanwhile, it�s on the web and right now, you can read and see video all about the conference that is taking place right now. [ link ] You can also find tons of fascinating content from previous years on their main website. [ link ] Here are some quotes from the T.E.D. blog on the first four days.

�It's time for TED 2008. Most of the TED team -- helped by a vast contingent of electricians, decorators, and other skilled craftspeople -- is in Monterey, California, preparing the conference, which will start on Wednesday. Our colleagues are in Aspen doing the same (see previous post): in a TED first, the two locations will be linked by satellite, and several speakers will be addressing the Monterey audience from Colorado.

This year we will be asking "The Big Questions": Who are we? What is our place in the universe? Is beauty truth? Will evil prevail? How do we create? And more. Questions that hopefully will be answered by the speakers�

"The first thing we do when we're born is we breathe in, and we cry. And the last thing we do when we die is we breathe out, and other people cry." - Spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, before leading an exercise in breathing and meditation

It's as if my consciousness had shifted away. I could no longer define the boundaries of my body. Then I realize: I'm having a stroke. And my left hemisphere tells me: Wow, this is so cool; how many brain scientists have the chance to study that from the inside?" � Jill Taylor

"Before the Web, there was just one guy running around saying 'I KNOW!'" - Robin Williams, ad-libbing, after taking the stage during a technical problem in the BBC World Debate

�Imagine Martin Luther King saying, �I have a dream ... But I don�t know if the others will buy it.�� - Boston Philharmonic Conductor Ben Zander, on the importance of persuasive leadership

"Human progress depends on unreasonable people. Reasonable people accept the world as they meet it; unreasonable people persist in trying to change it. Well, I�m Bob and I�m an unreasonable person. And if TED is anything, it is the olympics of unreasonable people." - Musician and activist Bob Geldof

"I think it's the Dopamine." - Anthropologist Helen Fisher, explaining to Chris Anderson why she's still optimisitic about love, despite understanding its chemical and biological basis

�It's important to eave the security of who we are, and go to the place of who we are becoming. I encourage you to let yourself out of any prison you might find yourself in. Because we have to do something now. We have to change now.� - Environmental advocate John Francis, who went 17 years without speaking

�How dare we be pessimistic? Maybe the future is better than it used to be.� - Peter Schwartz, co-founder of the Global Business Network

*(yes, Brainstorm, I know I will never willingly, knowingly eat snails. So I have limits.)

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