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I've spent my life working on sustainability.

In fact, companies like Pfizer and Amgen recently have spent more money in buying back their shares to boost their stock price than on R&D, but that's a whole different TED Talk which one day I'd be fascinated to tell you about.

There were two things that surprised me during the month I spent.

So they in fact spent two years debating, "So what is quality in hip surgery?" "Oh, we should measure this." "No, we should measure that."

More troublingly, 27 percent of offenders in prison have spent some time in care.

And even more worryingly, and this is a Home Office statistic, 70 percent of prostitutes have spent some time in care.

Is this the reason why he spent so much time in Europe studying instead of working in the field with us?" My people build all the time with clay, but they don't see any innovation with mud.

Without you, I'm just a guy talking to an empty room, and I spent a lot of time last week doing that, and it's not the same as this.

I come to this work as an architect and an urban planner, and I've spent my career working in other contested cities, like Chicago, my hometown; Harlem, which is my current home; Washington, D.C.; and Newark, New Jersey.

That seems trivial, but it's less time spent caring for patients.

At the time, the U.S. government had spent more than two billion dollars on electricity reconstruction.

And when my friends went and spent their summer vacations on the Jersey Shore, I did not.

I spent my summers in a war zone, because my parents were afraid that if we didn't go back to Palestine every single summer, we'd grow up to be Madonna.

I've spent the past year thinking about what it really should be about.

We spent the next two years doing research.

So I spent, I would say, on average, three to four hours a day there.

(Music ends) (Applause) Just to introduce the last robot that we've worked on, it came out of something surprising that we found: Some point people didn't care about the robot being intelligent, able to improvise and listen, and do all these embodied intelligence things that I spent years developing.

The money had been spent and we didn't learn how women fared.

I have spent the last years trying to resolve two enigmas: Why is productivity so disappointing in all the companies where I work?

The second thing that happened is that I spent the day in the Camden, New Jersey police department.

I spent the day in the police department, and I was taken into a room with senior police officials, all of whom were working hard and trying very hard to reduce crime in Camden.

We had spent weeks building it, and all it took to destroy it was a subtle change in the color of the light in the room.

I've spent my whole life working to stop it.

I spent time skiing across the sea ice for weeks at a time in the high Arctic.

Now I told you earlier that I'd spent a good part of my career understanding and studying the source characteristics of people with severe speech disorder, and what I've found is that even though their filters were impaired, they were able to modulate their source: the pitch, the loudness, the tempo of their voice.

The first is that by definition, this money printed would be spent overseas.

Now, I've spent 25 years of my professional life observing what makes great leaders.

And I spent countless hours in presidential libraries trying to understand how the environment had shaped the leaders, the moves that they made, and then the impact of those moves beyond their tenure.

Now, the central authorities have spent heavily on network infrastructure over the years, creating an attractive environment for investment.

We will get where we're going faster and society will recapture vast amounts of lost productivity now spent sitting in traffic basically polluting.

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