The best insights, comments, tweets and random zingers we heard this week.
“I wrote the code, but I’m still puzzled at how it works sometimes.” — Marcelo Calbucci in a post on Seattle 2.0, providing more evidence that, yes, our algorithms have officially become smarter than us.
“Google+ is like Twitter without the 140 character limit, minus the friends from high school you haven’t talked to in 15 years. Intriguing.” — Jason Kirby, figuring out Google’s niche in social networking, on Twitter.
“My theory is that technologists, like me, and geeks, like many of our users, know how to dress. It’s that we just really choose not to.” — Ben Huh of Cheezburger, responding to his ranking on GQ’s “worst-dressed in tech list” by expressing some blind faith in the fashion sensibilities of our people.
“We can tell you just rolled out of your 1,000-thread count bed sheets and picked out the nearest T-shirt in or around the laundry basket.” — GQ’s editors, assessing Huh’s sense of fashion.
“Better than looking like hipster d-bags.” — GeekWire reader “Sy,” responding in kind.
“Locked out of my room and they won’t let me back in because it’s not in my name. Fuck! I am in my bikini.” — sex columnist Violet Blue on Twitter, sounding as if she’s drafting the plot for a certain type of screenplay.
“Congrats! You are now starring in the new ‘What happens in Vegas’ commercial!” — Stephen Toulouse, responding to Blue.
“(W)e could soon view today’s keyword searching with the same nostalgia and amusement reserved for bygone technologies such as electric typewriters and vinyl records.” — Oren Etzioni, UW professor, thinking big about the future of search in an essay in the journal Nature.
“I regret the use of word ‘dumb’ in my press release, but it was kind of important to get media attention.” — Tarandeep Gill, who tricked the world with his fake Internet Explorer IQ test, explaining the real secret of media relations in the digital age.
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