The Orient Express famously operated between Paris and Istanbul.

Anonymous is this group of people that protested, very famously, Scientology.

Ken Olsen famously said, nobody needs a computer in the home.

Famously, Rome had about a million citizens by the first century A.D.

And one of the things Obama did, was they famously, the Obama campaign did, was they famously put up And millions of citizens rushed in to participate, and to try and figure out how to help.

So, the last example of this is congestion pricing, very famously done in London.

And it's been used most famously in Haiti in the aftermath of the earthquake.

It would be, as Ed Felton once famously said, Like handing out water that wasn't wet.

As Mahatma Gandhi famously said, You must become the change you wish to see in the world.

And of course Billingsgate, famously, was London's fish market, operating on site here until the mid 1980s.

Ronald Reagan famously insisted that, government is not the solution to our problem government is the problem.

Well, as Alexander Graham Bell famously said on his first successful telephone call, Hello, is that Domino's Pizza?

Google, of course, very famously gives 20 percent for their software engineers to pursue their own personal projects.

Carl Sagan once famously said that in order to make an apple pie, you must first invent the universe.

They got along famously until the very end of the meal, and then they got into a furious argument.

He famously used thought experiments, which are essentially elaborate analogies, to come up with some of his greatest discoveries.

And of course, Scott Fitzgerald said famously that he who invented consciousness would have a lot to be blamed for.

And as Norden famously says, Before that bombsight came along, bombs would routinely miss their target by a mile or more.

BUENOS AIRES We are all Keynesians now, Republican US President Richard Nixon famously said in 1971. Today, Axel Kicillof, Argentina s Peronist economy minister, is echoing this sentiment.

In China, the leadership transition has occurred smoothly. But the country s economic model remains, as former Premier Wen Jiabao famously put it, unstable, unbalanced, uncoordinated, and unsustainable.

Rita Calwell very famously traced a very interesting story of cholera into human communities, brought there, not by a normal human vector, but by a marine vector, this copepod.

The Swiss solution of electing an all embracing and balanced government tends to produce boring and uninspiring politics. Famously, few people know who even holds Switzerland s annually rotating presidency.

Manning sent the clippings from the Fort Leavenworth prison, where the former intelligence analyst was serving a 35 year sentence after famously leaking classified diplomatic cables through the website WikiLeaks.

In the old days of the silent movies Harold Lloyd here, hanging famously from the clock hands a lot of these guys did their own stunts. They were quite remarkable.

CAMBRIDGE Peter Drucker, the influential management guru, famously said, What does not get measured, does not get done. He might have added that what gets measured poorly gets done poorly.

The answer may be quite simple too many bosses have abandoned basic human values and embraced the credo famously uttered by Gordon Gekko in the movie Wall Street Greed is good.

NEW YORK Ignorance is the root of all evil, according to Plato, who also famously gave us a still current definition of its opposite knowledge. For Plato, knowledge is justified true belief.

The philosopher Isaiah Berlin famously distinguished between two styles of thinking, which he identified with the hedgehog and the fox. The hedgehog is captivated by a single big idea, which he applies unremittingly.

And groups famously follow the opinions of the most dominant or charismatic person in the room, even though there's zero correlation between being the best talker and having the best ideas I mean zero.

As Wael Ghonim, the Google Egyptian executive by day, secret Facebook activist by night, famously said to CNN after Mubarak stepped down, If you want to liberate a society, just give them the Internet.

The predictable initial response is to dismiss the possibility out of hand. As Australia s wartime prime minister, Ben Chifley, once famously remarked, The trouble with gentleman s agreements is that there aren t enough bloody gentlemen.

Karl Marx famously said that religion is the opium of the people. What he meant is that religious sentiment could obscure the material deprivations that workers and other exploited people experience in their daily lives.

COPENHAGEN When it comes to global warming, extreme scare stories abound. Al Gore, for example, famously claimed that a whopping six meters (20 feet) of sea level rise would flood major cities around the world.

COPENHAGEN When it comes to global warming, extreme scare stories abound. Al Gore, for example, famously claimed that a whopping six meters (20 feet) of sea level rise would flood major cities around the world.

I travelled for a month in Nepal with our good friend, Matthieu Ricard, and you'll remember Matthieu famously said to all of us here once at TED, Western science is a major response to minor needs.

As Stephen Hawking famously said, we're just a chemical scum on the surface of a typical planet that's in orbit around a typical star, which is on the outskirts of a typical galaxy, and so on.

Given sufficient will, there could be ample room for compromise. As the Nobel laureate economist Paul Samuelson famously said, the reason we have two eyes is to keep one on supply and the other on demand.

And it's worked so well that Atlassian has taken it to the next level with 20 Percent Time done, famously, at Google where engineers can work, spend 20 percent of their time working on anything they want.

Dissatisfaction with the dollar s role as the dominant global reserve currency is not new. In the 1960s, French Finance Minister Valéry Giscard d Estaing famously condemned the exorbitant privilege that the dollar s status bestowed upon the United States.

Milton Friedman, a leading proponent of the profit oriented approach to corporate management, famously declared that the business of business is business. Indeed, from this standpoint, there is no contradiction between profit maximization and the common good.

Winston Churchill once famously said of America that you can count on it to do the right thing once it has exhausted all other alternatives. Let us hope that his dictum proves correct for Europe as well.

At a minimum, the Fed might develop a portfolio of analogies, test them for fitness, and distill their lessons, as President John F. Kennedy famously did when weighing his options during the Cuban missile crisis in 1962.

NEW YORK India s great moral leader Mohandas Gandhi famously said that there is enough on Earth for everybody s need, but not enough for everybody s greed. Today, Gandhi s insight is being put to the test as never before.

The dangers of America s strategy vacuum and the related penchant for short termism have been mounting for some time. Harvard Business School professor Michael Porter famously raised this concern in a 1996 article in the Harvard Business Review.

Even the once famously tolerant Dutch and Danes are increasingly voting for parties that fulminate against the scourge of immigration. Always keen to assert the freedom to insult Muslims, the Dutch Freedom Party wants to ban all mosques.