And I had to write down the name of this TED Fellow so I didn't mess it up here.

The Fed can't mess it up so badly.

If you make a mess, clean it up.

This is a mess, mess, mess, Brownian loop.

All it takes in one person to mess it up.

So for example, if I make a mess that the nest maintenance workers have to clean up, then I see fewer ants out foraging.

I kept imagining all the walks I might not take with them, the art projects I might not mess up, the boyfriends I might not scowl at, the aisles I might not walk down.

MESS

To pretend they're not a mess when they are a mess.

What a mess have you ever tried to wire up a system as complex as this?

No, it looks like a mess. It looks like a mess with a guy there, who's got his hands around that mess, OK.

There's a lot of damage to the nest, and extra ants are needed to clean up that mess.

It was very much uncontrollable, and in a certain sense, it seemed to be the extreme of complexity, just a mess, a mess and a mess.

And so I began to sort of mess with the computer at the time.

If the developed world is able to pay trillions of dollars to clean up its bankers mess, how is it possible that it cannot afford to pay billions of dollars to clean up a mess that it created, and that is threatening the survival of whole continents?

And Archie Cochrane, as the camp doctor, was one of the first men in to clear up the mess.

And we only get the one chance if we mess up our spaceship, we've got nowhere else to go.

Financial Regulators Fine Mess

His room's a mess.

Don't mess me around!

It's just a mess today.

It's a total, total mess.

My room is a mess.

Uganda deplores the dumping of hazardous wastes off the coast of Somalia and calls upon the culprits to clean up their mess.

And at this time, when I was going through what I call my pre mid life crisis, Africa was a mess.

What can you say? What a mess.

There are many different kinds of mess.

She made a mess of the work.

She made a mess of the work.

And you add a little energy from the wind and the waves, and you get a big mess, a big mess that you can't possibly clean, you can't touch, you can't extract and, I think most importantly this is what I think you can't see it.

Because this is our real master narrative however much we mess up, there will always be more more water, more land, more untapped resources.

I notice this stuff because I walk a lot, but here, private industry is really kind of making a mess of the public sector.

It's a mess. It's all over the place.

Where there is this bloody, awful mess happens.

The situation in Kyrgyzstan is a real mess.

I'll quickly play a short part of the air, and then I'm going to get into kind of a crazy tune that is very difficult to play when you're not warmed up, so, if I mess it up, pretend you like it anyway. It's called The Banks.

We gotta kill them because they're making a mess.

Well, Susan, this is a fine mess you are in.

Well, what's happened? How did people get into this mess?

And of course, if we are put in environments where we can't deal with it, in some sense makes sense that we actually might mess certain things up.

I've been known to mess with things like chain link fencing.

Men run the world, and look at the mess we have.

Democracies make even more of a mess of these resource booms than autocracies.

I would have preferred bigger capital injections. I would have liked to see his administration use its leverage to replace the management responsible for creating the financial mess in the first place.

But it does. Generally, we haven't got ourselves into this mess through big disasters.