The Fed can't mess it up so badly.

If you make a mess, clean it up.

All it takes in one person to mess it up.

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

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.

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

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

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?

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

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.

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.

Financial Regulators Fine Mess

His room's a mess.

Don't mess me around!

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

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 it would be a mess in a context like this. This is a gothic cathedral.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

CAMBRIDGE, MA It is often difficult to understand how countries that are dealt a pretty good economic hand can end up making a major mess of things. It is as if they were trying to commit suicide by jumping from the basement.

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

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

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

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

It is about the inappropriate priorities in how resources are allocated. It is about moral values that make it appropriate to rescue bankers, who expect everyone but themselves to pay for the mess they created, and inappropriate to compensate the world s poorest people, whose survival is threatened precisely because of the mess created by developed countries.

They don't like it if you mess with their women, their children, their clean businesses, their clandestine airstrips used to move drugs.

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.

It is one thing for colonies to blow up on the other side of the world. It is quite another if the colony is just next door, and the colonial power is surrounded by countries with limited sympathy for a mess that is largely of its own making.

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