I had doubts.

So I asked this before I joined the team,

Stasi was the secret police in East Germany.

I wonder if Howl's in town

I wonder if Howl's back

The problem was that it killed more people.

I wonder what it is

I saw people struggling to get by, not knowing what was what and what was next.

I wonder what that was all about?

And also Jun kept telling me not to get bacon, and they were like, Jun! She's really skinny!

I was intensely moved during all this.

But you must wonder why women are more devout than men.

So, if you wind the clock back a bit to when I started the foundation that owns TED,

Now, you might be asking yourself,

I doubt if it will.

Still no room for reasonable doubt? No.

It is February and not lying is impossible.

You question my logic?

Since it doesn't spell a sound, most folks can't figure out what it's doing there.

I mean, all of us have heard young people referred to as digital natives.

I doubt if Bob will come to my birthday party.

I wasn't charged for anything. I hadn't done anything wrong.

There is no question of that in my mind.

But because it's so convenient even if we bump into something strange, we no longer question it.

So, you might ask

Now what's interesting, by the way, about this life sciences company is here's something that you would think, Who could I call?

He's going to want to know why I haven't authorized the invasion yet.

Now, hundreds of homes were destroyed.

(Laughter)

And it was really her strength, I believe, that became the kind of mudra and imprimatur that has been a guiding light in my life.

Be sure to check them out.

And I look at something like this, and honestly, you know, why would someone design underpants with a pocket, right?

But as we've seen over the last year, I think that's an idea that is increasingly coming into question.

like sponges to hunt fish.

And this is about 23 years into this process.

Drew a little diagram here, and I think there's a basic fundamental question that we all have to ask, and what does the financial system do?

So our example of 5 per year, you divide the 5 into 70, you find that growing quantity will double in size every 14 years.

Huh. Guess what? No one knows.

We thought it doubtful whether it would clear soon.

Is this a market at all, or did we just do a weird psychologist's trick by getting monkeys to do something,

I had doubts.

All of those things are part of that equation.

So as a writer interested in chemistry, what I wondered was,

Wonderful.

All my doubts about it have been driven away.