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Quotes About Ted

Our effort was mocked by some police supervisors: has the computer caught Ted yet?
~ Robert D. Keppel
We needed an over-confident Ted, not a defensive Ted, because overconfidence breeds mistakes, and that's just what we needed our Ted to make in order catch him.
~ Robert D. Keppel
Marty took the key out of his pocket, pushed the green button, and tore an opening in the side of the Orb. "Now look what you've done!" Luther said. "You've wrecked Ted's Orb." "How clumsy of me," Marty said.
~ Roland Smith
It's weird: you do a TED talk on something, and people think that you suddenly have a lot of answers around the topic.
~ Chris Milk
At half-court, the goateed Sandy Duncan started calling for Ted again. His coterie followed suit. The name Ted bounced around the arena like rolled-up balls of Silly Putty.
~ Harlan Coben
Project Xanadu is essentially my trademark. It was originally, and has returned to my arms as that.
~ Ted Nelson
i loooveee ted i loove ted s much he is soooo hot
~ Harlan Ellison
Part of the lore of the Mirage poker room was the four-day $600-$1,200 game Ted played with Hamid Dastmalchi, the 1992 World Champion and a man similarly possessed of a cast-iron constitution. At the end of it, Dastmalchi was taken out of the Mirage in an ambulance. Forrest joked that it was all the bad beats he showed Hamid, but it may have had more to do with the estimated fifty packs of cigarettes Dastmalchi smoked during the game.
~ Michael Craig
Both Gateway and I are products of Sioux City.
~ Ted Waitt
et cetera, et cetera, as the King of Siam would have put it.
~ Ted Bell
The value of an idea is determined by how appealing the idea is to someone. If you want something desperately, you will pay desperately.
~ Ted Dekker
I became Vulnerability TED, like an action figure — like Ninja Barbie, but I'm Vulnerability TED.
~ Brene Brown
Woss the matter with you?" asked Big Ted, irritably. "Go on. Press 'D.' Elvis Presley died in 1976." I DON'T CARE WHAT IT SAYS, said the tall biker in the helmet, I NEVER LAID A FINGER ON HIM.
~ Terry Pratchett
I think I'm very knowledgeable about the issues of my constituents.
~ Ted Lieu
The TED Fellowship exposed me to a set of youngsters who had wilder ideas than I did - and almost all of them were pursuing their wild and crazy ideas without fear of failure.
~ Shaffi Mather
Whenever I get in a car and I'm going to or from the airport or the train station, I put on a TED Talk using the TED app. It makes the trip go by super fast, and it fills my sails.
~ Christina Tosi
What TED celebrates is the gift of the human imagination." —Sir Ken Robinson, TED 2006
~ Carmine Gallo
Inspiring communicators and the best TED presenters stick to one of three types of stories. The first are personal stories that relate directly to the theme of the conversation or presentation; second are stories about other people who have learned a lesson the audience can relate to; third are stories involving the success or failure of products or brands.
~ Carmine Gallo
A man with a beard - Suzanne guessed he was an assistant director - came toward her, speaking into a walktie-talkie. "Yep, she just got here," he said. "I'll show her to her trailer." He smiled at her. "I'm Ted," he said, "designed to make your life a more annoying place to be." Suzanne smiled back, bowed her wet head, and said, "Suzanne, designed to be annoyed." Ted laughed. "The we ought to get along great.
~ Carrie Fisher
A man with a beard - Suzanne guessed he was an assistant director - came toward her, speaking into a walktie-talkie. "Yep, she just got here," he said. "I'll show her to her trailer." He smiled at her. "I'm Ted," he said, "designed to make your life a more annoying place to be." Suzanne smiled back, bowed her wet head, and said, "Suzanne, designed to be annoyed." Ted laughed. "Then we ought to get along great.
~ Carrie Fisher
Because TED is for, and by, unbelievably rich people, they tiptoe around questions of the justness of a society that rewards TED attendees so much for what usually amounts to a series of lucky breaks.
~ Alex Pareene
America is at war. Our enemy is not violent extremism. It is not some unnamed malevolent force. It is radical Islamic terrorist.
~ Ted Cruz
writing is a technology, which means that a literate person is someone whose thought processes are technologically mediated.
~ Ted Chiang
A proof that mathematics is inconsistent, and that all its wondrous beauty was just an illusion, would, it seemed to me, be one of the worst things you could ever learn.
~ Ted Chiang