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I’ve been looking back at some of my tweets lately and I’ve compiled a list of tweetphorisms<\/em>, which are a cross between tweets and aphorisms<\/a>. <\/p>\n

– A good thing about Twitter is that if somebody wants to trash you they only have 140 characters to do so.<\/p>\n

– In Europe tipping gets you nowhere, in USA not tipping gets you nowhere.<\/p>\n

– One thing I love about my American friends is that they are less jugdemental, more willing to take risks.<\/p>\n

– Great leadership is the ability to make followers thrive.<\/p>\n

– Creative destruction is much hyped, but non destructive creation is better.<\/p>\n

– They should not allow world cup teams to have foreign coaches.<\/p>\n

– TV still exists because of simplicity, bandwidth and simultaneity.<\/p>\n

– Religion is on its wait out in Europe, hence football.<\/p>\n

– Marriages take work. Grass is not greener on the other side. It’s greener where it’s watered.<\/p>\n

– Monopolies are like children in an airplane, you complain about them until you have one.<\/p>\n

– \u00a0College must have been traumatic. I graduated in the 80s and still dream I’m not prepared for my Chemistry exam.<\/p>\n

– Remember when Twitter was about people saying something? Now it’s all links.<\/p>\n

– The value of a secret derives from the relevance of those whom we want to keep uninformed.<\/p>\n

– You become 21, turn 30, push 40 and reach 50.<\/p>\n

– Contradiction: Americans consume most oil in the world and yet they blame their President for the drilling accident.<\/p>\n

– Math is the hardest subject to work hard at.<\/p>\n

– Microsoft was easier to hate :).<\/p>\n

– Studying photography made me come to terms with cloudy days.<\/p>\n

– I am for being tolerant with the intolerant, but it’s hard when the response is death threats.<\/p>\n

– Europe needs to eliminate national armies and have just one European Army.<\/p>\n

– Some people are afraid of the unknown. I tend to be more afraid of what I know.<\/p>\n

– Netflix tells me what I will like, Vuze delivers it.<\/p>\n

– Twitter should take pity on those who Tweet in German and give them a few extra characters \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

– The French should teach the Italians how to make desserts and in exchange learn how to make coffee.<\/p>\n

– The only power left who still disguises economic ambition as ideology is USA. Russia and China gave up.<\/p>\n

– The iPad is most useful in situations in which laptops are frowned upon.<\/p>\n

– Downturns are great moments to gain market share.<\/p>\n

– There’s an inverse relation between how cool you look watching a movie in an iPad and how dorky walking around listening to music.<\/p>\n

– It’s not the role of companies to regulate if people date at work or not.<\/p>\n

– Parents teach kids to be patient. In the process, they are learning to be patient themselves.<\/p>\n

– The paradox of the music industry is that it’s being destroyed out of love for music.<\/p>\n

– Most people in power in Europe would rather see Greece sink than the Euro rise again.<\/p>\n

– What distinguishes people is not how much shit they have to deal with, but how they deal with it.<\/p>\n

– You raise a child until one day you realize…you raised a person.<\/p>\n

– 80% of good paternity is showing up. \u00a0Quality time is a cop out for absent parents.<\/p>\n

– Twitter, all the news that’s fit to tweet.<\/p>\n

– The iPad is an ideal toilet companion<\/p>\n

– When people really want something they have a hard time comprehending it may not be possible<\/p>\n

– Restaurant owners believe that there is an inverse relationship between their elegance and your understanding of the menu.<\/p>\n

– Link shorteners should use one letter to show whats in them.<\/p>\n

– In USA, kids are especially told not to talk to strangers. \u00a0But as adults they love to \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

– Jet lag is a good way of understanding the difference between being tired and wanting to sleep.<\/p>\n

– Exams are so traumatic that people keep having nightmares that they show up unprepared decades later<\/p>\n

– There are 2 kinds of people who rarely take vacations: those who can’t afford them and those who have a hard time dealing with themselves.<\/p>\n

– Android will be very popular because Google does not make a living out of selling hardware.<\/p>\n

– If you had a habit of talking to yourself, Twitter is perfect for you.<\/p>\n

– It’s great when the person you love… is your wife \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

– Smartphones are amazing. But they are not that smart when all you want to do is make a phone call.<\/p>\n

– The problem bailing out Greece is that the euro was too strong before the crisis.A weaker euro combined with cheaper oil helps EU.<\/p>\n

– When two people in Twitter want to engage they leave. DMs are not enough. Unlimited DMs or DM chat would be better.<\/p>\n

– Hillary Clinton may become for all \u00a0Israelis what Sharon was to Gaza settlers.<\/p>\n

– Design is not great when it clashes with use. \u00a0Example? iPhones that fall out of pockets.<\/p>\n

– Something tells me that it was not “the keyboard cat” what Chad had in mind when starting Youtube.<\/p>\n

– Electricity consumption’s been down 5% in Europe since the crisis. Recessions are good for the environment.<\/p>\n

– One of the weaknesses of Twitter is that it’s such a pain to always click on links.<\/p>\n

– If you oppose to animal testing in medicine you favor human testing in medicine, or no progress in medicine.<\/p>\n

– As it becomes widely used Twitter needs to raise the character limit to 200.<\/p>\n

– USA should not have China finance its wars, it should have China fight them.<\/p>\n

– Friendship is about people you know, dating is about people you don’t know, Facebook is evolving from friendship to dating.<\/p>\n

– USA has the richest people in the world. Europe has the “richest” poor people in the world.<\/p>\n

– English is the most widely spoken language. \u00a0That also makes it the language that is most frequently spoken poorly.<\/p>\n

– Twitter, or a life worth sharing.<\/p>\n

– Europeans want equality, Americans equal opportunity, Asians don’t seem too keen on either.<\/p>\n

– Cable, telephone, mobile, Internet, newspapers, magazines, games and music industries did indeed converge in the end.<\/p>\n

– Google is about linking to other sites. \u00a0Twitter is about linking to other sites. \u00a0Facebook instead warns you about the Internet.<\/p>\n

– Models are hired to appeal to women. \u00a0They are women who women like. Most men like actresses more than models.<\/p>\n

– Scientists in USA are admirable because all scientists are, but also because average folks in this country mistrust science.<\/p>\n

– The problem with Twitter is that all watch what everyone else is doing and as a result…nobody does anything.<\/p>\n

– First we had phone, SMS, email, then Skype, Gtalk, Facebook, Twitter, Buzz. I need new tech to start replacing old tech!!<\/p>\n

– You can tell when somebody uses a Kindle because they stop counting pages and say: “I have 7% left to read”.<\/p>\n

– The best argument against nuclear energy is that it’s used as an excuse by Iran and others for making nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n

– Memories are the leftovers of experience<\/p>\n

– We can use randomized controlled trials not just to test medicines but for social problems too.<\/p>\n

– San Francisco can be seen as “at the edge of the tech world” or “the edge of the planet” \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

– Sometimes it is best to leave a book unfinished and imagine the rest.<\/p>\n

– Haiti’s problems did not start with the earthquake, but they came to light with it.<\/p>\n

– Religion exists because the truth is unbearable.<\/p>\n

– America excels at the extremes. Europe focuses on raising the average.<\/p>\n

– Most successful products are self evident.<\/p>\n

– Blackberries are for work, iPhones for fun, Androids are somewhere in the middle.<\/p>\n

– Anyone who tries to make a tablet without something like the iTunes Store will have a hard time competing against Apple.<\/p>\n

– Twitter used to be a community of people who shared info, now it’s more and more a one to many broadcasting platform.<\/p>\n

– After Law School you are a lawyer. \u00a0After Med School you are a Dr. But after Business School you are not an entrepreneur.<\/p>\n

– Facebook is meaningless unless you know the people whose crap you read about.<\/p>\n

– Writers block is pass\u00e9, now it’s Twitter block.<\/p>\n

– Emotion can be great motivation for writing, but it can backfire when you are trying to make a point.<\/p>\n

– USA and Europe design, China makes.<\/p>\n

– Terrorists attack USA partly because it is easily spooked.<\/p>\n

– Uruguay is a country with no news to report. No news is good news.<\/p>\n

– Safety with little police presence is a sign of civilization.<\/p>\n

– Countries around here are either free and poor (St. Lucia) or colonies (Martinique) and rich. \u00a0So much for freedom \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n

– Twitter: gossip never had it so good.<\/p>\n

– The crying baby, the snoring man, two dreaded characters on night flights.<\/p>\n

– Even though China is the biggest polluter in the world it still has the right to sell carbon credits to much cleaner Japan.<\/p>\n

– Airline punctuality figures should include airport immigration expected delays.<\/p>\n

– Some of the brightest people I know can’t spell.<\/p>\n

– Most large exporters of energy are LDCs (less democratic countries)<\/p>\n

– Spending a lot of time on Twitter makes you more informed but less knowledgeable.<\/p>\n

– Twitter + links = Facebook – search<\/p>\n

– Obama’s Nobel Prize speech should have been about racial reconciliation, not about justifying military action.<\/p>\n

– Climate change may be disastrous. But we have a global sanitation, education, malnutrition and disasters now, first things first!<\/p>\n

– Speed limits should relate to traffic. \u00a0No traffic, higher speed limits.<\/p>\n

– Twitter is like Facebook in fast motion.<\/p>\n

– Twitter: \u00a0speed dating of the intellect.<\/p>\n

– Facebook is very expensive to run but has a business model. Twitter is very cheap to run but has not found one yet.<\/p>\n

– Zapatero does not speak English, lives in the old media world and out of ignorance managed to turn the blogosphere against him.<\/p>\n

– Apple is the only company that managed to go on with desktops.<\/p>\n

– The success of Spotify in Spain shows that even in a country in which downloading is legal there’s a business model for music.<\/p>\n

– Europe sees immigrants as people to train. \u00a0Americans also see them as people to learn from. Guess where they prefer to go?<\/p>\n

– In Spain some under 20s are on Facebook, none on Twitter, and all on Tuenti.<\/p>\n

– I still can’t understand how the country of the 35 hour work week came up with the word entrepreneur<\/em>.<\/p>\n

– The worst weather is when it’s almost freezing but instead of snowing…it rains. Just shy of profitability.<\/p>\n

– If a country has social mobility and recession many can be better off even in bad times. \u00a0But Europe is screwed at this level.<\/p>\n

– If anything Obama is proving that it is much harder to be a good President than a bad one.<\/p>\n

– The crisis does have something positive: \u00a0it is a boom for entrepreneurship.<\/p>\n

– Whenever I don’t get a reference I think it must be Star Trek, Star Wars or Lord of the Rings.<\/p>\n

– Here we are squeezing our thoughts on Twitter because somebody a decade ago decided to limit SMS to 140 characters.<\/p>\n

– Nations who won’t negotiate with terrorists shouldn’t pay pirates off<\/p>\n

– People who don’t like photos of themselves: those who like themselves too little and those who like themselves too much.<\/p>\n

– Twitter used to be microblogging. Now blogging is an extended tweet.<\/p>\n

– Murdoch should not forego Google, if anything he should do the RSS thing and give them the headlines.<\/p>\n

– The genius of the iPhone can be perceived during the brief time when you finish a charge and the battery runs out.<\/p>\n

– Nobody ever made more money than Chaplin portaying misery.<\/p>\n

– Spain has holidays that relate to each city. Next Monday, for example, is a holiday only in Madrid. All holidays should be national.<\/p>\n

– Software upgrades offer significant risks in exchange for minor improvements.<\/p>\n

– Whoever forces people to write http:\/\/ before a web site name should be spanked (Tom says shot).<\/p>\n

– Big TV displays are begging for wireless connectivity to your laptop.<\/p>\n

– The better I do the less I have to tweet about.<\/p>\n

– Successful companies turn out to have many “cofounders”.<\/p>\n

– Twitter gives you a unrealistic feeling of being famous.<\/p>\n

– At the end of life few are sorry they did not spend more time at the office.<\/p>\n

– The only really white people on the planet are the British \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

– There is so much to learn when you know very little!<\/p>\n

– Canada, USA, Japan, Australia, other wealthy nations should allow free movement of labor as EU does already.<\/p>\n

– Europe is about class struggle. USA about generational struggle.<\/p>\n

– Overheard on Twitter: \u00a0To want to prove that God exists with a Bible is like wanting to prove that Batman exists with a comic.<\/p>\n

– Facebook should allow you to gift pictures.<\/p>\n

– Spanish is the second most spoken language in the world after Chinese and slightly ahead of English<\/p>\n

– Book authors will be like musicians. \u00a0Books will be free on the net but authors will make money from public speaking.<\/p>\n

– Never underestimate the power of a good story<\/p>\n

– I never liked a TV series so much not to wait to watch it when I wanted to.<\/p>\n

– Nobel Institute has just awarded itself the Obama Prize<\/p>\n

– If you follow people in different continents, Twitter gives you a real sense for time zones. When I wake up California goes silent.<\/p>\n

– If you know what you want to listen to go for Spotify, if you want to discover music use Last.fm.<\/p>\n

– I have a dear friend who is not on Facebook. He is the last one standing.<\/p>\n

– We should read what the Taliban says before more die in Afghanistan on both sides.<\/p>\n

– Occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan is a waste of our military resources and goes against what we tell the world we stand for.<\/p>\n

– If you can’t tell a story extremely well, \u00a0you can’t raise money for \u00a0a start up.<\/p>\n

– It takes a while for US Presidents to realize that the only real power they have is abroad.<\/p>\n

– One country one vote is not a way to run the world. \u00a0If you are a citizen of a large country you are underepresented.<\/p>\n

– Managing online communities around a product is tough<\/p>\n

– Apple’s software is amazing because it competes with Windows and Linux. Apple’s hardware is poor because it does not compete with anybody.<\/p>\n

– The problem with tech after tax salaries in Italy is that social charges are so high that even if entrepreneurs spend more, coders get less.<\/p>\n

– Choosing ice cream flavors you realize how different people are.<\/p>\n

– Smartphones are like friends, one night I hang out with the Nokia, another with the iPhone, tonight is Android, but my real buddy is still the Blakcberry.<\/p>\n

– Everyone I know believes in Twitter as a multibillion dollar business. \u00a0I only believe in Twitter as a centimillion dollar business.<\/p>\n

– Unemployment is sad but paradoxically good for the environment and for start ups.<\/p>\n

– Obama’s mistake with health care is that he chose an issue that his young voters don’t care so much about and his opponents do.<\/p>\n

– The best moments in life often can’t be shared on Twitter<\/p>\n

– Being an entrepreneur in Spain is like being a snowboarder in Jamaica.<\/p>\n

– The Clinton Global Initiative is not about making it. It’s about what to do once you have made it… or about giving it away intelligently.<\/p>\n

– So many people have left Hotmail for Gmail that when I see a Hotmail email I know its obsolete.<\/p>\n

– Overpromising may make sense if those who overpromise end up producing more than they would have if they hadn’t overpromised.<\/p>\n

– Indeed, why is English a must for so many simple jobs but not for President?<\/p>\n

– Computers changed photography from the portrayal of who we are to the portrayal of who we want to be.<\/p>\n

– Once you lie your way to the Presidency, other lies come easy.<\/p>\n

– Location services should realize in which direction you are moving and give you recommendations ahead of you!<\/p>\n

– In Spain people think that calling a person negro<\/em> or black is derogatory but calling him negrito<\/em> or little black is not.<\/p>\n

– For Ubuntu to be popular it must find an easier to install unlisted programs than terminal.<\/p>\n

– USA is so good at promoting cross ethnic\/cultural understanding at home, and so bad at doing it overseas.<\/p>\n

– Death is the test of evolution. We are programmed to die. Even if we conquered all disease we would only increase life expectancy by 12 years.<\/p>\n

– The origin of antisemitism may be lack of reciprocity: what Jews believe in Christians\/Muslims also believe in, but not the other way around.<\/p>\n

– Conservatives in Spain want to ban access to social networks without parents consent. Good economic policies come from social retards.<\/p>\n

– USA has more road deaths than no speed limit Germany<\/p>\n

– Kids have this unusual ability to teach us what they don’t have: patience.<\/p>\n

– Europe is just the best continent to live in.<\/p>\n

– The French are among the most productive people in the world. Tariq says it’s because they can’t wait to leave asap for the aperitive \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Spent a lot of the summer in America and Asia only to conclude once more, that Europe is just the best continent to live in.<\/div>\n
The French are among the most productive people in the world.Tariq says it’s cuz they can’t wait to leave asap for the aperitive \ud83d\ude42<\/div>\n
Kids have this unusual ability to teach us what they don’t have: patience.<\/div>\n
USA has more road deaths than no speed limit Germany<\/div>\n
Conservatives in Spain want to ban access to social netwrks w\/out parents consent.Why do good econ policies come from social retards?<\/div>\n
The origin of antisemitism may be lack of reciprocity: what Jews believe in Christians\/Muslims also believe in but not the other way around.<\/div>\n
USA is so good at promoting cross ethnic\/cultural understanding at home, and so bad at doing it overseas<\/div>\n
Death is the test of evolution. \u00a0We r programmed to die. Even if we conquered all disease we would only increase life expectancy 12 years.<\/div>\n
For Ubuntu to be popular it must find an easier way than terminal to install unlisted programs.<\/div>\n
Location services shoulf realize in which direction u r moving and give you recommendations ahead of u!<\/div>\n
In 1999 my former CFO took huge risk left Lehman for start up Jazztel. \u00a010 years later Lehman is dead Jazztel is thriving. We both moved on.<\/div>\n
In Spain people think that calling a person negro or black is derogatory but calling him negrito or little black is not.<\/div>\n
Computer changed photography from the portrayal of who we are to the portrayal of who we want to be.<\/div>\n
Indeed, why is English a must for so many simple jobs but not for President?<\/div>\n
Overpromising may make sense if those who overpromise end up producing more than they would have if they hadn’t overpromised.<\/div>\n
Obama’s mistake with health care is that he chose an issue that his young voters don’t care so much about and his opponents do.<\/div>\n
The best moments in life often can’t be shared on Twitter<\/div>\n
Being an entrepreneur in Spain is like being a snowboarder in Jamaica.<\/div>\n
The Clinton Global Initiative is not about making it. \u00a0It’s about what to do once you have made it…or about giving it away intelligently.<\/div>\n
So many people have left hotmail for gmail that when I see a hotmail email I know its obsolete.<\/div>\n
Unemployment is sad but paradoxically good for the environment and for start ups.<\/div>\n
Everyone I know believes in Twitter as a multibillion dollar business. \u00a0I only believe in Twitter as a centimillion dollar business.<\/div>\n
Smartphones are like friends, one night I hang out with the Nokia, another the iPhone, tonight is Android but my real buddy is still the BB<\/div>\n
The problem with tech after tax salaries in Italy: social charges are so high that even if entrepreneurs spend more coders get less.<\/div>\n
Choosing ice cream flavors you realize how different people are.<\/div>\n
Managing online communities around a product is tough<\/div>\n
Apple\u00b4s software is amazing because it competes with Windows and Linux. Apple\u00b4s hardware is poor because it does not compete with anybody.<\/div>\n
If you can\u00b4t tell a story extremely well, \u00a0you can\u00b4t raise money for \u00a0a start up.<\/div>\n
It takes a while for US Presidents to realize that the only real power they have is abroad.<\/div>\n
One country one vote is not a way to run the world. \u00a0If you are a citizen of a large country you are underepresented.<\/div>\n
Before more die in Afghanistan on both sides we should read what the Taliban say.<\/div>\n
Occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan is a waste of our military resources and goes against what we tell the world we stand for.<\/div>\n
if you follow people in different continents Twitter gives you a real sense for time zones. \u00a0When I wake up California goes silent.<\/div>\n
If you know what you want to listen to go for Spotify, if you want to discover music, with Last.fm.<\/div>\n
I have a dear friend who is not on Facebook. \u00a0He is the last one standing.<\/div>\n
Nobel Institute has just awarded itself the Obama Prize<\/div>\n
Never underestimate the power of a good story<\/div>\n
I never liked a TV series so much not to wait to watch it when I wanted to.<\/div>\n
Book authors will be like musicians. \u00a0Books will be free on the net but authors will make money from public speaking.<\/div>\n
Spanish is the second most spoken language in the world after Chinese and slightly ahead of English<\/div>\n
Overheard on Twitter. \u00a0To want to prove that God exists with a Bible is like wanting to prove that Batman exists with a comic.<\/div>\n
Facebook should allow you to gift pictures.<\/div>\n
“Once you go Mac you never go back” or how Google can help you understand what people think about your biz http:\/\/digg.com\/u1EGCy<\/div>\n
The only really white people on the planet are the British \ud83d\ude42<\/div>\n
There is so much to learn when you know very little!<\/div>\n
EU, Canada, USA, Japan, Australia, other wealthy nations should allow free movement of labor as EU does already.<\/div>\n
Europe is about class struggle. \u00a0USA about generational struggle.<\/div>\n
Twitter gives you a unrealistic feeling of being famous.<\/div>\n
Once you lie your way to the Presidency other lies come easy<\/div>\n
At the end of life few are sorry they did not spend more time at the office.<\/div>\n
Successful companies turn out to have many “cofounders”<\/div>\n
The better I do the less I have to tweet about.<\/div>\n
Big TV displays are begging for wireless connectivity to your laptop.<\/div>\n
Software upgrades offer significant risks in exchange for minor improvements.<\/div>\n
Whoever forces people to \u00a0write http:\/\/ before a web site name should be spanked (Tom says shot)<\/div>\n
Spain has holidays that relate to each city.Next Monday for example is a holiday only in Madrid.All holidays should be national.<\/div>\n
Nobody ever made more money than Chaplin portaying misery.<\/div>\n
the genius of the iPhone can be perceived during the brief time u finish a charge and the battery runs out<\/div>\n
Murdoch should not forego Google, if anything he should do the RSS thing and give them the headlines<\/div>\n
Twitter used to be microblogging. \u00a0Now blogging is an extended Tweet.<\/div>\n
Here we r squeezing our thoughts on Twitter cuz somebody a decade ago decided to limit sms to 140 characters.<\/div>\n
Nations who won’t negotiate with terrorists shouldn’t pay pirates off<\/div>\n
People who don’t like photos of themselves: those who like themselves 2 little and those who like themselves 2 much.<\/div>\n
Whenever I don’t get a reference I think it must be Star Trek, Star Wars or Lord of the Rings.<\/div>\n
The crisis does have a positive: \u00a0it is a boom for entrepreneurship.<\/div>\n
If anything Obama is proving that it is much harder to be a good President than a bad one.<\/div>\n
If a country has social mobility and recession many can be better off even in bad times. \u00a0But Europe is screwed at this level.<\/div>\n
The worst weather is when it’s almost freezing but instead of snowing…it rains. Just shy of profitability.<\/div>\n
I still can’t understand how the country of the 35 hr work week came up with the word entrepreneur.<\/div>\n
In Spain some under 20 on FB, none on Twitter, all on Tuenti.<\/div>\n
Apple is the only company that managed to go on with desktops.<\/div>\n
The success of Spotify in Spain shows that even in a country in which downloading is legal there’s a biz model for music.<\/div>\n
Europe sees immigrant as people to train. \u00a0Americans also sees them as people to learn from. \u00a0Guess where they prefer to go?<\/div>\n
Zapatero does not speak English, lives an the old media world and out of ignorance managed to turn the blogosphere against him.<\/div>\n
Twitter is like Facebook in fast motion.<\/div>\n
Twitter: \u00a0speed dating of the intellect.<\/div>\n
Facebook is very expensive to run but has a biz model. \u00a0Twitter is very cheap to run but has not found one yet.<\/div>\n
Climate change may be disastrous. \u00a0But we have a global sanitation, education, malnutrition disaster now, 1st things 1st!<\/div>\n
Speed limits should relate to traffic. \u00a0No traffic, higher speed limits.<\/div>\n
Obama’s Nobel Prize speech should have been about racial reconciliation, not about justifying military action.<\/div>\n
Twitter + links = Facebook – search<\/div>\n
Spending a lot of time on Twitter makes you more informed but less knowledgeable.<\/div>\n
Most large exporters of energy are LDCs (less democratic countries)<\/div>\n
Some of the brightest people I know can’t spell.<\/div>\n
Even though China is the biggest polluter in the world it still has the right to sell carbon credits to much cleaner Japan.<\/div>\n
Airline punctuality figures should include airport immigration expected delays.<\/div>\n
The crying baby, the snoring man, two dreaded characters on night flights.<\/div>\n
Countries around here r either free and poor (St Lucia) or colonies (Martinique) and rich. \u00a0So much for freedom \ud83d\ude41<\/div>\n
Twitter: gossip never had it so good.<\/div>\n
Safety with little police presence is a sign of civilization.<\/div>\n
Uruguay is a country with no news to report. No news is good news.<\/div>\n
USA and Europe design, China makes.<\/div>\n
terrorists attack USA partly because it is easily spooked<\/div>\n
Emotion can be great motivation for writing but it can backfire when you are trying to make a point.<\/div>\n
FB is meaningless unless you know the people whose crap you read about.<\/div>\n
Writers block is pass\u00e9, now it’s Twitter block.<\/div>\n
After Law School u r a lawyer. \u00a0After Med School u r a Dr. \u00a0But after Biz School u r not an entrepreneur.<\/div>\n
Twitter used to be a community of people who shared info, now it’s more and more a one to many broadcasting platform.<\/div>\n
Blackberries are for work, iPhones for fun, Androids are somewhere in the middle.<\/div>\n
Anyone who tries to make a tablet without something like the iTunes store will have a hard time to compete with Apple.<\/div>\n
America excels at the extremes. Europe raises the average.<\/div>\n
Most successful products are self evident.<\/div>\n
The problems of Haiti did not start with the earthquake but they came to light with it.<\/div>\n
Religion exists because the truth is unbearable.<\/div>\n
Sometimes it is best to leave a book unfinished, and imagine the rest.<\/div>\n
We are in San Francisco, a city that can be seen as “at the edge of the tech world” or “the edge of the planet” \ud83d\ude42<\/div>\n
Memories are the leftovers of experience<\/div>\n
We can use randomized controlled trials for not just to test medicines but for social problems.<\/div>\n
The best argument against nuclear energy is that it is used as an excuse by Iran and others for making nuclear weapons.<\/div>\n
You can tell when somebody uses a Kindle because they stop counting pages and say “I have 7% left to read”<\/div>\n
First we had phone, SMS, email, then Skype, Gtalk, Facebook, Twitter, Buzz. I need new tech to start replacing old tech!!<\/div>\n
The problem with Twitter is that all watch what everyone else is doing and as a result…nobody does anything.<\/div>\n
Scientists in USA are admirable because all scientists are, but also because average folks in this country mistrust science.<\/div>\n
Models are hired to appeal to women. \u00a0They are women who women like. Most men like actresses more than models.<\/div>\n
Google is about linking to other sites. \u00a0Twitter is about linking to other sites. \u00a0Facebook instead warns you about the internet.<\/div>\n
The cable, telephone, mobile, internet, newspapers,magazines,games,music industries did indeed converge in the end.<\/div>\n
Europeans want equality, Americans equal opportunity, Asians dont seem too keen on either.<\/div>\n
Twitter or a life worth sharing<\/div>\n
English is the most widely spoken language. \u00a0That makes it also the language that is most frequently spoken poorly.<\/div>\n
USA has the richest people in the world. Europe has the “richest” poor people in the world.<\/div>\n
Friendship is about people u know, dating is about people u dont know, FB is evolving from friendship to dating<\/div>\n
As it becomes widely used Twitter needs to raise the character limit to 200.<\/div>\n
USA should not have China finance its wars, it should have China fight them http:\/\/bit.ly\/cqUZVP<\/div>\n
If you oppose animal testing in medicine you favor human testing in medicine, or no progress in medicine.<\/div>\n
One of the weaknesses of twitter is that it is such a pain to always click on links.<\/div>\n
Something tells me that it was not “the keyboard cat” what Chad had in mind when starting Youtube<\/div>\n
Electricity consumption’s been down 5% in Europe since the crisis. Recessions are good for the environment<\/div>\n
When two people in Twitter want to engage they leave. \u00a0DM is not enough. \u00a0Unlimited DM or DM chat would be better.<\/div>\n
Hillary Clinton may become for all \u00a0Israelis what Sharon was to Gaza settlers<\/div>\n
Design is not great when it clashes with use. \u00a0Example? iPhones that fall of pockets.<\/div>\n
Problem bailing out Greece is that euro was too strong before crisis.Weaker euro combined with cheaper oil helps EU.<\/div>\n
Smartphones r amazing to stay in touch with my kids doing everything but talking (chat,pixs,videos,FB).<\/div>\n
Los intentos de Facebook para que no sea facil clickear enlaces e irte son pateticos.<\/div>\n
Its great when the person you love… is your wife \ud83d\ude42<\/div>\n
If you had a habit of talking to yourself Twitter is perfect for you.<\/div>\n
Android will be very popular because Google does not make a living out of selling hardware.<\/div>\n
Exams are so traumatic that people keep having nightmares that they show up unprepared decades later<\/div>\n
There r 2 kinds of people who rarely take vacations: those who can\u00b4t afford them and those who have a hard time dealing w\/themselves.<\/div>\n
Jet lag is a good way of understanding the difference between being tired and wanting to sleep<\/div>\n
Link shorteners should use one letter to show whats in them<\/div>\n
In USA kids are especially told not to talk to strangers. \u00a0But as adults they love to \ud83d\ude42<\/div>\n
When people really want something they have a hard time comprehending it may not be possible<\/div>\n
Restaurant owners believe that there is an inverse relationship between their elegance and your understanding of the menu.<\/div>\n
The iPad is an ideal toilet companion<\/div>\n
Twitter, all the news that’s fit to tweet.<\/div>\n
80% of good paternity is showing up. \u00a0Quality time is a cop out for absent parents.<\/div>\n
You raise a child until one day you realize you’ve raised a person.<\/div>\n
What distinguishes people is not how much shit they have to deal with, but how they deal with it.<\/div>\n
I think it is not the role of companies to regulate if people date at work or not.<\/div>\n
Parents teach kids to be patient. In the process, they are learning to be patient themseves.Sg I learned on my 3 daily hrs with Leo.<\/div>\n
The paradox of the music industry is that it’s being destroyed out of love for music.<\/div>\n
most in power in Europe would rather see Greece sink than the Euro rise again<\/div>\n
I find the iPad most useful in situations in which laptops are frowned upon.<\/div>\n
Downturns are great moments to gain market share.<\/div>\n
there’s an inverse relations between how cool you look watching a movie in an iPad and how dorky walking around listening to music<\/div>\n
The only power left who still disguises economic ambition as ideology is USA.Russia and China gave up.<\/div>\n
Twitter should take pity on those who Tweet in German and give them a few extra characters \ud83d\ude42<\/div>\n
The French should teach the Italians how to make desserts and in exchange learn how to make coffee.<\/div>\n
Who was the idiot at palm who decided to put the delete key right next to the enter key?<\/div>\n
Netflix tells me what I will like, but Vuze delivers it<\/div>\n
Europe needs to eliminate national armies and just have a European Army.<\/div>\n
some people are afraid of the unknown I tend to be more afraid of what I know<\/div>\n
I am for being tolerant with the intolerant, but it is hard when the response is death threats<\/div>\n
Studying photography made me come to terms with cloudy days<\/div>\n
Math is the hardest subject to work hard at.<\/div>\n
Microsoft was easier to hate \ud83d\ude42<\/div>\n
you become 21, turn 30, push 40 and reach 50<\/div>\n
Contradiction: Americans consume the most oil in the world and yet they blame their President for the drilling accident.<\/div>\n
The value of a secret derives from the relevance of those who we want to keep uninformed.<\/div>\n
Remember when twitter was about people saying something? Now it’s all links<\/div>\n
College must have been traumatic! Graduated in the 80s and still dream I am not prepared for a Chemistry exam.<\/div>\n
Monopolies are like children in an airplane, you complain about them til you have one.<\/div>\n
Marriages take work. Grass is not greener on the other side. It’s greener where it’s watered.<\/div>\n
Religion is being replaced by football on it’s way out of Europe<\/div>\n
TV still exists because of simplicity, bandwidth and simultaneity<\/div>\n
They should not allowed world cup teams to have foreign coaches.<\/div>\n
Every time I go to USA i feel sorry for what Americans have to go through every time they travel.<\/div>\n
Great leadership is the ability to make followers thrive<\/div>\n
Creative destruction is much hyped but non destructive creation is better.<\/div>\n
One thing I love about my American friends is that they are less judgemental,more willing to take risks.<\/div>\n
In Europe tipping gets you nowhere, in USA not tipping gets you nowhere.<\/div>\n
A good thing about Twitter is that if somebody wants to trash you they only have 140 characters to do so.<\/div>\n
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