Rakul Preet Singh

I don't take it very seriously. You shouldn't let your success get to your head or failure get to your heart. This is most commonly said. But people don't really practise it. I don't see myself as a celebrity; it has not sunk in. I just see myself as someone doing a nine-to-six job like a techie.

Indian Actress

Robin Sloan

There's certainly satire written about techies, but it's so snarky and snide and doesn't treat him as a whole person. The people I worked with at Twitter - they're very analytical, but they're also deep and thoughtful - I feel like they deserved a charismatic spokesperson.

American Author

Steve Jurvetson

Every new industry has exuberance in advance of reality. The techies get carried away. There is a period of despair. Then the pendulum swings the other way, and people see the long term potential. It's like when the Internet bubble crashed.

American Businessman

Kimberly Bryant

The images you see in media are vital to impacting not just what the world sees in terms of who can be a computer scientist, who can be techie, who can be a geek or who can be a creator; it also impacts the girls and what they internalize.

American Scientist

Vinod Khosla

I'm not a political person. I'm a techie nerd, and I enjoy the techie part. I mean, all my life, I've loved great technology.

Lights

Young girls aren't marketed science-y stuff, or techy stuff, or even musical stuff.

Canadian Musician

Evan Glodell

I am a mechanical techie. I can build things with my hands.

American Director

Flying Lotus

I've always been a techie kind of person.

American Musician

Tom Green

Canadian Comedian

Charlie Brooker

English Critic

Used informally among friends or in casual conversations, not in formal settings.

Casual Usage

Implies admiration for someone's tech skills, without the negative implications 'geek' might have.

Positive Connotation

Doesn't necessarily mean a professional; could be a hobbyist with a keen interest in technology.

Not Profession Specific

 do their pre-flight checks as if they're checking the wind see if they can take off and then yeah they've got sensors in their feet and once they realize the conditions are good they can take off pretty pretty techy little animals then yeah whoa that's awesome they actually look pretty clumsy when they take off

Beautiful Butterfly...

 well I built a company called eBay that's so well that's very nice thanks very much and give me your card and sometimes we'll talk I didn't know eBay from that jar of water sitting on that piano but I had the presence of mind to go back and talk to one of the techy kids at the center that said hey man

Bill Strickland:...

 London Cambridge Oxford and we work with the techies there and we were lucky to be at the awards for the hackathon at 10 Downing Street they gave us a tour and during the tour they showed us this portrait and someone said of course you know who Lady ADA Lovelace's and I said

The hidden history of...

 is where it all starts and I made this cardboard mock-up several years ago of our instrument which for the techies out there our instrument is a mid infrared fourier transform spectrometer that can be used in microscope version or a telescope version etc now basically I

Kevin Hand: Exploring...

 They didn't think it was significant, but there was an outrage in the community. The community, the techies, said, this flaw has to be addressed. They were not going to stand by quietly as Intel gave them these chips. So there was a revolution across the world.

Lawrence Lessig: The...

 Okay, there's not a person in this room -- I don't care how techie you are -- there's not a person in this room that doesn't give their laptop or cell phone to a kid to help them debug it. OK? We all need help, even those of us who are very seasoned.

Nicholas Negroponte: One...

 a dating platform for political opposites, a tool that could help get people together with different opinions. And we decided to test it and launched what techies would call a "minimum viable product." So it was really simple.

What happened when we...

 It's going to be a springboard for our global campaigning. And the techies among you, you could really help us create a prototype public registry to demonstrate what a powerful tool this could be.

Charmian Gooch: My wish:...

 here what's important here is the creativity that it inspired amongst this this techie geeky internet culture there

Why videos go viral -...

 But what's important here is the creativity that it inspired amongst this techie, geeky Internet culture.

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