You need to be able to do something with it.

NGOs and governments spend a lot of time and energy and resources in a few small areas, usually.

These are not risk takers You spent so much time with other people, you spent so much time trying to get people to like you,

We used to have 40, now they have come down to 30.

looking for those tiny things that may or may not work, but which, if they do work, can have a success absolutely out of proportion to their expense, their efforts and the disruption they cause.

And we're doing this through some case studies.

It didn't happen accidentally.

Then you know he's put a lot of time and energy into finding you.

This answer took seven minutes, and really gave me an insight into the incredible act of generosity this whole talk was for TED.

This machine saves us a lot of labor.

And the problem we've run into is, we're running out of both.

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They worked out the system with much thought and labor.

The doctor devoted a great deal of effort and the patient recovered.

He devoted much time to study.

He devoted a lot of time to study.

He's also in an old age home, he's in a nursing home around other old people, so he had to look exactly the same as the others.

Right now we spend three billion hours a week playing online games.

He did do it.

This modern machine dispenses with much hard labor.

This machine saves us a lot of labor.

The company spends a lot of money on advertising.

But there is a dark side to this, and that's what I want to spend the last part of my talk on.

Computers will save you much time and energy when you deal with figures and graphs.

A student spends a lot of time studying.

Students spend a lot of time playing.

I had a hard time making both ends meet.

This afternoon, at the Tama New Town site... five more workers were killed or injured... in a landslide and accident involving a trailer.

The United Kingdom is consuming 1.25 watts per square meter.

What might the bottlenecks be?

He put a lot of time and effort into preparing for the exam.

Why invest so much time and energy on things no one will ever use?

We spent a lot of time looking for a parking lot.

You can't actually charge them that.

The problem with debugging being time consuming and all actually translates into money and effort on a large scale.

Time for development it took around 10 years and 700 million dollars.

It started to become hard to raise operational costs, operational budgets.

They did not want to spend much time talking about it.

The workforce reductions could be unitized,

We know that the best defense against plagiarism consists of writers who save themselves time, worry, and effort by taking the far easier road of just doing the work themselves.

I spent a great deal of time dealing with that problem last week.

What happens if it's minus 1.5 ?

You know, they're spending 8.5 hours a day on recreational media, if they have a TV in their bedroom.

You know, we spend a lot of time trying to organize the world.

TED itself had really nothing to do with organizing it.