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I have been denounced for passive corruption without having received anything of value. Where is the concrete proof that I received something of value?
Michel Temer
Corruption
Value
Proof
Something
Having
Without
Concrete
Passive
Been
Where
Anything
Received
It was an important and daring decision to open Eletrobras capital to private investors.
Michel Temer
Decision
Important
Daring
Open
Investors
Private
Capital
Nobody is more capable to pointing out the unbalances in, let's say, supermarket prices than women.
Michel Temer
Women
Say
Out
Supermarket
More
Pointing
Prices
Nobody
Than
Capable
Nobody is more capable of detecting eventual economic fluctuation than women, since they monitor the increases and decreases of their home's budgets.
Michel Temer
Home
Women
Increases
Fluctuation
More
Economic
Nobody
Since
Budgets
Than
Capable
Eventual
Monitor
Our inexorable destiny is to be a great nation.
Michel Temer
Great
Nation
Our
Destiny
Great Nation
Inexorable
Essentially, all expressions of human nature ever produced, from a caveman's paintings to Mozart's symphonies and Einstein's view of the universe, emerge from the same source: the relentless dynamic toil of large populations of interconnected neurons.
Miguel Nicolelis
Nature
Human Nature
Universe
Symphonies
Relentless
Emerge
Neurons
Source
Same
Human
Essentially
Interconnected
Dynamic
Einstein
Mozart
Produced
View
Toil
Large
Paintings
Expressions
Ever
The brain needs to have a story; it needs to have a logical screenplay telling where we're coming from and what we're going to.
Miguel Nicolelis
Needs
Logical
Telling
Coming
Brain
Going
Where
Screenplay
Story
There are several patients - there are thousands of patients, tens of thousands of patients, that carry either a stimulator in the brain or in the periphery, in the inner ear, to restore neurological functions or to control diseases like Parkinson's disease.
Miguel Nicolelis
Control
Several
Carry
Thousands
Restore
Neurological
Parkinson
Tens
Tens Of Thousands
Like
Periphery
Brain
Disease
Diseases
Patients
Either
Functions
Ear
Inner
The kind of neuroscience that I do and my colleagues do is almost like the weatherman. We are always chasing storms. We want to see and measure storms - brainstorms, that is.
Miguel Nicolelis
Chasing
Colleagues
Kind
See
Neuroscience
Almost
Like
Always
Want
Storms
Measure
It's not telepathy. It's not the Borg. But we created a new central nervous system made of two brains.
Miguel Nicolelis
Made
Nervous
System
Nervous System
New
Brains
Central
Created
Two
It's the first time an exoskeleton has been controlled by brain activity and offered feedback to the patients. Doing a demonstration in a stadium is something very much outside our routine in robotics. It's never been done before.
Miguel Nicolelis
Time
Feedback
First
Before
Our
Has-Been
Something
Outside
Never
First Time
Robotics
Demonstration
Doing
Been
Brain
Very
Offered
Controlled
Done
Stadium
Patients
Much
Activity
Routine
We want to galvanize people's imaginations. With enough political will and investment, we could make wheelchairs obsolete.
Miguel Nicolelis
People
Political
Will
Enough
Could
Investment
Obsolete
Make
Want
Imaginations
A lot of people thought the sense of self was hard-wired, but it's not at all. It can be changed very quickly, and that's very intriguing.
Miguel Nicolelis
People
Thought
Sense
Changed
Intriguing
Self
Lot
Very
Quickly
We started all this research way back in the early 1990s, developing a technique that allows us to record the electrical signals produced by neurons simultaneously.
Miguel Nicolelis
Research
Back
Way
Signals
Record
Neurons
Developing
Simultaneously
Us
Produced
Electrical
Technique
Early
Started
Early 1990s
We basically created a computational unit out of two brains.
Miguel Nicolelis
Out
Computational
Brains
Created
Unit
Basically
Two
Innovation happens best when people of different backgrounds come together to solve the world's toughest challenges and, in the process, can create new jobs and opportunities. I'm hopeful that updated immigration policies will encourage entrepreneurs from around the world to help tackle these opportunities in the U.S.
Mike Krieger
Best
Together
Challenges
Innovation
People
World
Immigration
Opportunities
Will
Backgrounds
Jobs
Hopeful
Solve
Tackle
Entrepreneurs
Toughest
New
Come
Policies
Around
New Jobs
Encourage
Updated
Different
Different Backgrounds
Happens
Process
Create
Help
In 2010, the night before we launched 'Instagram v1', my co-founder Kevin and I bet on how many people would download the app its first day in the wild.
Mike Krieger
Day
People
First
Before
Wild
Would
Bet
Instagram
How
How Many People
App
Many
Download
Night
Kevin
You can't start a product simply by building it. You have to know why you're building it, and you might go down the wrong rabbit hole, waste time, and confuse things. Spending long afternoons with a sketchbook or talking through your ideas with other people can save a year in software development later on.
Mike Krieger
Time
You
People
Long
Building
Year
Confuse
Down
Waste Time
Other
Software
Spending
Later
Through
Simply
Wrong
Development
Ideas
Know
Talking
Go
Afternoon
Hole
Rabbit
Might
Product
Your
Waste
Why
Things
Start
Save
Having a scriptable infrastructure requires upfront work but can pay huge dividends in bringing new engineers onto your infra team, as well as helping in disaster-recovery scenarios.
Mike Krieger
Work
Pay
Having
Scenarios
Dividends
Onto
New
Well
Huge
Upfront
Infrastructure
Requires
Your
Engineers
Team
Helping
Bringing
It took less time to build 'Instagram' than it did for me to get my work visa. The app was an instant hit, and Facebook agreed to acquire the startup for about $1 billion in April 2012.
Mike Krieger
Work
Time
Me
Facebook
Build
Startup
Took
Visa
April
About
Instagram
Instant
Hit
Than
Get
Did
Acquire
App
Less
Billion
Less Time
Agreed
The biggest problem is startups in search of a problem. Chase what you're passionate about; you'll probably already have knowledge in the space.
Mike Krieger
Knowledge
You
Problem
Space
Startups
About
Chase
Passionate
Biggest
Biggest Problem
Search
By 2013, we had 200 million people using 'Instagram' every month and over 20 billion photos stored.
Mike Krieger
People
Every
Month
Photos
Instagram
Had
Over
Stored
Billion
Using
Million
Million People
I was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and from an early age was interested in technology and engineering.
Mike Krieger
Technology
Age
Brazil
Engineering
Born
Interested
Early
Early Age
When I came to the United States in 2004 to attend university at Stanford, I was instantly inspired by the stories and advice from startup leaders in Silicon Valley and beyond, who had endeavoured to create new opportunities and improve lives around the world.
Mike Krieger
World
Opportunities
Advice
Startup
Valley
States
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Inspired
Had
Attend
Instantly
Leaders
New
Beyond
Around
Came
New Opportunities
Improve
Stories
Create
Who
Stanford
United
Lives
United States
University
Since I was born and raised in Brazil, the steps to becoming an entrepreneur in the United States have not always been easy.
Mike Krieger
Entrepreneur
Brazil
States
Easy
Born
Steps
Since
Always
Becoming
Been
United
United States
Raised
I'm fascinated with being able to travel the world via 'Instagram' and just be somewhere different.
Mike Krieger
Travel
World
Somewhere
Just Be
Able
Instagram
Via
Just
Being
Different
Fascinated
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