I hate people who make small talk in quiet public places.

Before I start doing small talk, I'd rather not talk at all.

Let me talk about a relatively small number.

Almost immediately, though, people ask, How small can you make this? Can you make this small enough?

Turn big problems into small ones, and make small problems into nothing.

And that's what I'm going to talk about, how a small change leads to a very big revolution.

HC Let's talk about flavor transformation, and let's actually make some cool stuff.

Talk to them and make it easy for them to tell their friends.

I think you need a pilot in the plane that can talk to the universities, that can talk to students, talk to politicians during the flight, and really make it a human adventure.

And rockets are small. So you have to make it smaller.

But small atoms want to join together, small nuclei want to join together to make bigger ones to go towards iron.

If you talk in the right way, you make it very clear that talking is not agreeing.

Make me to understand the way of thy precepts so shall I talk of thy wondrous works.

Make me to understand the way of thy precepts so shall I talk of thy wondrous works.

And I want to talk about how we ensure that this crisis, which is by no means small, really is used to the full.

So, ladies and gentlemen, at TED we talk a lot about leadership and how to make a movement.

We're going to talk about what happens if people are overwhelmed and scared to make their 401 choices.

For, lo, I will make thee small among the heathen, and despised among men.

For, lo, I will make thee small among the heathen, and despised among men.

And I think I want to talk a little bit about why we had the courage to go out and try that as a small company.

So, this talk is going to be about how do we make things and what are the new ways that we're going to make things in the future.

And it's a fabulous event to just meet and talk to these people who make things and are there to just show them to you and talk about them and have a great conversation.

We make ourselves small. We don't want to bump into the person next to us.

The ventriloquist must first make us believe that a small boy is sitting on his lap.

A small mutation can take a two wing fly and make it a four wing fly.

But there are new technologies and new products that they can make on a small scale.

And they've ended up on a bunch of talk shows, and they've used it as an opportunity to make a difference.

But let's think about this. How can you make a small number of neurons do a lot?

And this is an acupuncture note or I.M. Pei's. Some small ones can make the city better.

When we talk to someone, we talk.

Make success stories of small island developing States in economic development and capacity building available for learning purposes.

Let's talk about how we can use digital technology, the technology of our dreams, to make this life the life we can love.

Shh! Don't make a sound. We are playing hide and seek now. If you want to talk, go find somewhere else to hide.

Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff.

Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff.

In this prescient 2005 talk, Clay Shirky shows how closed groups and companies will give way to looser networks where small contributors have big roles and fluid cooperation replaces rigid planning.

Organic chemists make molecules, very complicated molecules, by chopping up a big molecule into small molecules and reverse engineering.

There's diatoms made out of SIO2, and they're magnetotactic bacteria that make small, single domain magnets used for navigation.

Eric, I want to talk. I want to talk.

We all want to make the world better but how? Jamais Cascio looks at some specific tools and techniques that can make a difference. It's a fascinating talk that might just inspire you to act.

And of course, the Swiss can be divided into two general categories those who make small, exquisite, expensive objects and those who handle the money of those who buy small, exquisite, expensive objects.

But make no mistake both parties are implicated. There is already talk that Obama will raise 1 billion or more for his re election campaign.

Now, when you talk global you have to talk English.

We talk about energy independence. We talk about hydrogen cars.

A talk about surgical robots is also a talk about surgery.