Comments on: TEDGlobal Day 1: Quotes of the Day http://blog.ted.com/2009/07/21/tedglobal_day_1/ The TED Blog shares interesting news about TED, TEDTalks video, the TED Prize and more. Wed, 22 May 2013 20:16:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Helena Bulaja http://blog.ted.com/2009/07/21/tedglobal_day_1/comment-page-1/#comment-2179 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://blog-staging.ted.com/2009/07/tedglobal_day_1/#comment-2179 I was wandering is it appropriate at all to see any Prime Minister today at TED – a meeting that proclaimed it self to be inspiring creative and visionary and to help to all of us to make a Earth to be a better place? And specially I am disappointed that the Quote of the Day you picked is by him?…It is a nice quote but unfortunately I didn’t really believe it comes from the heart….and I didn’t find his speech inspiring and specially not creative or visionary….

I am sorry but this was my first experience with TED and right from the start truly disappointing….

I wish you best for the rest of this week, and I hope soon the world will become better place and we will all realize that creativity can’t be valued by money….and that the worst industries that human kind invented ever motivated by greed and abusing human extreme creative power is Marketing ….. driven by money without any ethical senses, presuading people to consume what they don’t need…..

]]> By: Alan Carnegie http://blog.ted.com/2009/07/21/tedglobal_day_1/comment-page-1/#comment-2180 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://blog-staging.ted.com/2009/07/tedglobal_day_1/#comment-2180 Hey, look at that poor soul in the Ferrari in front of Boots….I’m going to light a candle for him……he looks like he’s in need of a sabbatical…..wait, it’s not a man, but a woman—darn these glasses…..

]]> By: Aaron Fowkes http://blog.ted.com/2009/07/21/tedglobal_day_1/comment-page-1/#comment-2181 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://blog-staging.ted.com/2009/07/tedglobal_day_1/#comment-2181 Just want to point out a small misspelling of ‘Stephen Frye’. It should be ‘Stephen Fry’. Other than that, I am interested to see the talks on the website soon.

]]> By: maxo rally http://blog.ted.com/2009/07/21/tedglobal_day_1/comment-page-1/#comment-2182 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://blog-staging.ted.com/2009/07/tedglobal_day_1/#comment-2182 Some amazing quotes some true and some not so good looks a great event wish i could go! maybe 2010

]]> By: Barbara Singleterry http://blog.ted.com/2009/07/21/tedglobal_day_1/comment-page-1/#comment-2183 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://blog-staging.ted.com/2009/07/tedglobal_day_1/#comment-2183 Creativity has always been valued by money. The great artworks of the Italian Renaissance were commissioned by the Pope and Medicis along with other wealthy patrons. It is only the leisure created by wealth that allows us to promote creative and artistic endeavors. If we were working at a subsistence level we would not have the time nor energy to be artistic and creative.

As far as having a Prime Minister at TED, I thought that all forms of provocative topics are encouraged and allowed. One does not need to agree with the viewpoint in order to contemplate the ideas presented. Even politicians can be visionary at times.

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