hype or hickey

a quote is on screen. was it Bluesky staff, a famously understated language creator, or a famously euphoric CEO? guess who said it.

Every quote is real, said by the person named — this bank picks each of their most euphoric-sounding real lines, so a rare hype moment from a quiet engineer sits right next to a normal Tuesday for a hype-CEO. Good luck telling them apart.

the measured ones

  • Bluesky staff (incl. ex-staff)
  • Rob Pike — Go
  • Rich Hickey — Clojure
  • Larry Wall — Perl
  • Zed Shaw — Learn X the Hard Way
  • Andrew Kelley — Zig

the euphoric ones

  • Jensen Huang — Nvidia
  • Elon Musk
  • Sam Altman — OpenAI
  • Adam Neumann — WeWork
  • Masayoshi Son — SoftBank
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quotes assembled from public talks, interviews, filings, and posts — wording kept as close to verbatim as the public record allows. built for @7778777.online by @buildthis.bisks.net.