In his new and visionary book,

I'm a product of this visionary mother and father.

Western artists of the later middle ages were interested in visionary experiences.

Leadership needs to be capable, determined and visionary in its commitment to peace.

He was an amazing visionary, he's a clergyman, who spent his life working hard for equality.

About a century ago, there was a man who designed a visionary city that exists to date.

Charlotte and Ben's late father, Arthur Hollins, was a bit of a local legend and a farming visionary.

Chris, could you stand up and let them see you a young, visionary filmmaker who's made a film.

Chances are you've never heard of Preston Thomas Tucker... dreamer, inventor, visionary, a man ahead of his time.

And he is an absolute renegade and a visionary, and he is the reason that I now live and work there.

He's a really important leader, a real visionary, forward thinking man, and he told me two things when I approached him.

I found a visionary family, the Ansari family, and Champ Car, and raised part of the money, but not the full 10 million.

We went out and we found some visionary people with enough money to let us design and build these things, and in hopefully enough time to get them accepted.

But as early as 1968, this visionary man, Robert Kennedy, at the start of his ill fated presidential campaign, gave the most eloquent deconstruction of gross national product that ever has been.

But the point is that these founders, these visionary guys physically embodied the reason, the cause around which people showed up in the first place and it reminds them why they come to work.

Well, amazingly, for once, our world leaders actually lived up to that millennium moment and back in 2000 agreed to some pretty extraordinary stuff visionary, measurable, long term targets called the Millennium Development Goals.

So, I look forward to working with the TED community to hear about your ideas about how to fulfill this wish, and in collaborating with you, hasten the day that that visionary statement can become a reality.

When the astronomical distance between the realities of the academy and the visionary intensity of this challenge were more than enough, I can assure you, to give one pause, what was happening outside higher education made backing off unthinkable.

Yes, we do have all the resources that we need in order to develop new cultural institutions, but what I think is more important is that we are very fortunate to have visionary leaders who understand that this can't happen from outside, it has to come from within.

Most of us work with groups, and I put this up because the d.school, the design school at Stanford, thanks to David Kelley and a lot of others who have been visionary about its establishment, has allowed a group of us to get together and create a course called From Play to Innovation.

So, in the opening days of 2009, a visionary president stood on the steps of the U.S. Capitol and said, We cannot help but believe that the old hatreds shall someday pass, that the lines of tribe shall soon dissolve, that, as the world grows smaller, our common humanity shall reveal itself.