A compilation of this past week’s Twitter messages – from the serious to the whimsical – from some top names in technology.
“Dell CMO @KarenDellCMO named among Top Women in Tech by @siliconrepublic. Well deserved!”
– Michael Dell, Dell chairman and CEO
“Publishers should include the top negative Amazon reviews at the back of a book for consumption after reading. Often food for thought.”
– John Collison, entrepreneur, co-founder of Stripe
“Wind absolutely taken out of me by a post-GDC flu bug. LA schedule now has nap times built in.”
– Dylan Collins, executive chairman of Fight My Monster. Founder of Jolt Online, DemonWare + Phorest
“Stopped by gardai (cops) while walking to Tesco. My swagger must have set of alarm bells.”
– James Whelton, tech entrepreneur, CoderDojo co-founder and first person to hack the iPod Nano
“So tired I can’t even finish my”
– Katie Jacobs Stanton, head of international strategy at Twitter
“Late night tacos and acquisition rumors = just another Sunday night at SXSW.”
– Jenna Wortham, tech reporter, The New York Times
“Next year at SXSW maybe a marketing agency can pay homeless people to run in a wheel all day and generate enough power to charge iPhones.”
– Zach Epstein, executive editor at BGR Media, LLC
“When a friend reports mtg someone they admire via the Twitter + you refrain from replying to let them know that person’s a total d—.”
– Jen Bekman, founder and CEO of 20×200
“Taxi to Belfast airport. Spent big part of it explaining e=mc2 to the taxi driver plus why Germany didn’t get the bomb.”
– Charles Arthur, The Guardian’s technology editor
“While we teach kids to code, should we not examine what it means for them to think like a coder? What mindset comes from the skills?”
– Ben Hammersley, editor at large of the UK edition of WIRED magazine
“Rule #1 of TV dramas: If you hear a character cough, they’re going to die soon from some virus, poison, or biological agent.”
– Matt Cutts, Google engineer
“Some people give up too quickly because they tend to look at how far they still have to go, instead of how far they have gotten.”
– Art Jonak, CEO, Network Professionals
“I think paywalls are disrespectful to the reporters doing amazing work at a publication. Reporters want to be read!”
– Sarah Lacy, reporter and senior editor at TechCrunch
