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Mr. Smith, one of my former colleagues, uses Scott McCloud's "Understanding Comics" in his literature and film class, because that book gives his students the language with which to discuss the relationship between words and images.

And of course consider images that can be sensory patterns, visual, such as you're having right now in relation to the stage and me, or auditory images, as you are having now in relation to my words.

In other words, we're not literally replacing the components of the retina.

There's a philosopher, Derek Parfit, who said some words that were inspiring to my coauthors and I.

Each of those TED Talks has an average length of about 2,300 words.

Now take this together, and you end up with 2.3 million words of TED Talks, which is about three Bibles-worth of content.

The obvious question here is, does a TED Talk really need 2,300 words?

I mean, if you have an idea worth spreading, surely you can put it into something shorter than 2,300 words.

What's the minimum amount of words you would need to do a TED Talk?

While I was pondering this question, I came across this urban legend about Ernest Hemingway, who allegedly said that these six words here: "For sale: baby shoes, never worn," were the best novel he had ever written.

And I also encountered a project called Six-Word Memoirs where people were asked, take your whole life and please sum this up into six words, such as these here: "Found true love, married someone else."

So if a novel can be put into six words and a whole memoir can be put into six words, you don't need more than six words for a TED Talk.

And if you did this for all thousand TED Talks, you would get from 2.3 million words down to 6,000.

So I started asking all my friends, please take your favorite TED Talk and put that into six words.

And luckily, there's a website for that, called Mechanical Turk, which is a website where you can post tasks that you don't want to do yourself, such as "Please summarize this text for me in six words."

So what if I don't let people summarize individual TED Talks to six words, but give them 10 TED Talks at the same time and say, "Please do a six-word summary for that one."

Some of you might actually right now be thinking, it's downright crazy to have 10 TED Talks summarized into just six words.

He's got eight talks online, and those can basically be summed up into just four words, because that's all he's basically showing us, our intuition is really bad.

They don't just give us books or words about this.

And it was there that another nurse, not the nurse who was looking after Mrs. Drucker before, but another nurse, said three words to me that are the three words that most emergency physicians I know dread.

The three words are: Do you remember?

And she said the three words: Do you remember?

And let me close with three words of my own: I do remember.

How wonderful would it be if we were prepared to replace all of our lofty words with our wallets and invest 500 billion dollars unleashing women's economic potential?

In other words, a state monopoly that has the use of violence well under control.

I'm going to let him, in this very short clip, describe his impressions of the therapy in his own words.

In other words, this machine requires a lot of stuff that this hospital cannot offer.

So in other words, what we have here is a machine that can enable surgery and save lives, because it was designed for its environment, just like the first machine I showed you.

In other words, every step here represents an order of magnitude in performance scale.

So in other words, the future has kind of been shrinking one year per year for my whole lifetime.

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