A compilation of this past week’s Twitter messages – from the serious to the whimsical – from some top names in technology.
“1030am. Been awake since 4. Hoofing the Macchiato into meself at a nice Italian place on Wardour Street. Long way to go before I sleep.”
– Mark Little, founder of Storyful
“Airports should award you air hours based on how long you’re there. I’d be triple-platinum from Heathrow alone.”
– Dylan Collins, founder of various online games/internet companies
“If all the networking events were in evenings and weekends would numbers go up or down?”
– Pat Phelan, director of products and innovation, MAXROAM
“At Farmleigh – The digital Horizon conf. Presentations could use a designer … We need more designers and coders not just more Wi-Fi.”
– Bill Liao, social networking entrepreneur and philanthropist
“I’m in hell, two ‘like oh my god’ girls sitting next to me on this flight to Las Vegas ‘like let’s do shots’ … please make it stop.”
– Kevin Rose, founder of Digg, co-founder and CEO of Milk Inc
“My mind is in San Francisco, my soul is wandering around Paris, and my heart is walking the streets of New York City.”
– Jack Dorsey, creator, co-founder and executive chairman of Twitter; CEO of Square
“Embargo over. Today I’ve been appointed as the Prime Minister’s Ambassador to #TechCity, responsible for linking govt, business & civil soc.”
– Ben Hammersley, editor at large of the UK edition of WIRED magazine
“How much time do you spend on spam scraping each day? This morning it was 20 minutes scraping my blog and email.”
– Chuck Hollis, EMC CTO and blogger