They're just relentless and obsessive about what they do.

Very, very obsessive.

And even being here I mean the last few days, I've known really heights of obsessive behavior I never thought about.

At EG'08, Adam Savage talks about his fascination with the dodo bird, and how it led him on a strange and surprising double quest. It's an entertaining adventure through the mind of a creative obsessive.

Psychodynamics and psychotherapy of an obsessive compulsive reaction in an adolescent in Turkish J. Pediatrics 9, pp. 165 173, 1967

The obsessive usage of the Jews by those opposing progress and democracy has not diminished in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.

And so, if we look from our own experience, anger, hatred, jealousy, arrogance, obsessive desire, strong grasping, they don't leave us in such a good state after we have experienced it.

And consider treating psychotic disorders and I want this involved with the TED group such as obsessive compulsive disorder that, presently, is not well treated with drugs, and includes five million Americans.

I think about this challenge a lot these days, because my new startup, called HICCup (Health Initiative Coordinating Council), aims (in part) to help people do just that on a massive scale, though initially concentrated in just a few communities. The point is not to turn everyone into an obsessive calorie , weight , or step counter, but to get people to be better self manipulators.

As a result of the inability of the Greek Cypriot side to come to terms with the realities on the island and its obsessive efforts to impose its political will at all costs, the prospects of a peaceful settlement in Cyprus are diminishing.

In each case, we see obsessive people arrogating to themselves the right to decide others fate, and using modern technology for their harmful purposes. By its very nature, this sort of disaggregated but highly focused threat is almost impossible to identify and intercept in advance.

The No campaign has been vigorous, comprising a motley crew of aging Marxists, anti globalization protestors, traditional euroskeptics, and obsessive sovereigntists. They have sought to capitalize on the vacuum of knowledge in Ireland regarding EU affairs and the Yes side s relative lateness to mobilize.

One of the more ironic results of the region s changing political configuration is that Israel now perceives a strategic convergence with Saudi Arabia. Despite their political systems deep differences, they both favor the regional status quo, and they share an obsessive suspicion of Iran.

A Jewish state has existed for only short periods in Judaism s history, and it twice committed political suicide. The reasons were always the same politico religious fanaticism and the blunder of challenging the prevailing world powers hence modern Zionism s obsessive quest for a binding alliance with a superpower.

Now, already in the case of the brain disorders that I've been talking to you about, depression, obsessive compulsive disorder, post traumatic stress disorder, while we don't have an in depth understanding of how they are abnormally processed or what the brain is doing in these illnesses, we have been able to already identify some of the connectional differences, or some of the ways in which the circuitry is different for people who have these disorders.

And, of the 100,000 dollar prize money, that TED was so generous to give me, I am donating 50,000 dollars to the NeuroPace people to get on with the treatment of OCD, obsessive compulsive disorder, and I'm making another 50,000 available for a company to optimize the design of the device for migraines.

He was learning about our process about design thinking, about empathy, about iterative prototyping.

It's about sharing. It's about honesty. It's about identity.

About what? About me.

Both manic depressive illness and schizophrenia are psychotic conditions, characterized by the patient s loss of control over his or her actions and thoughts, a recurrent state in which s he cannot be considered an agent with free will. Obsessive suicidal thinking and paralyzing lack of motivation allow depressed patients to be classified as psychotic as well.

The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela also shares the concern and sense of urgency with regard to establishing educational programmes to eradicate from the face of the Earth genocide as a political act to exterminate groups of human beings or entire peoples on the unspeakable pretext of hatred, racism and the fundamentalist, obsessive and messianic blindness that characterizes religious intolerance.

About whisky. What about whisky?

It's about attention. It's about their image, not about the car.

From playing with it, they learn some basic principles about fire, about intake, about combustion, about exhaust.

I may be wrong about much, about plenty, but not about this.

I don't wanna hear about the show about the school, about anything.

We're being critical of the West, the perception of the West about our identity about the image that is constructed about us, about our women, about our politics, about our religion.

It's about kids. It's about entrepreneurship.

It's about science, it's about rationalism.

He knew about Miriam, about you.

How about that, Jonathan? About what?

Well, about you, not about me.

That's what life is about, about daring greatly, about being in the arena.

It's about space. It's not about fashion.

Right. Articles about water, ads about water.

Well, what about it? What about it?

What about the others? What about him?

Enough about them. Let's talk about us.

It's about Nino. Zachetti? What about him?

What about my reputation? Nothin' about it.

About time you found out about it!

Yes. I wrote about Sasha. About Savchenko.

Talk about something else! Talk about women!

Think about it. Just think about it.

Write about foreign countries, about distant landscapes.