He continued: "Ms. Fujimoto's Japanese was often quirky and zany, but that quirkiness and zaniness was in accord with the feel of the originals.
He tends to veer off the path, introducing subjects with a charming quirkiness and dropping breadcrumbs of local knowledge along the way.
When Colin and his twinkly dream woman, Chloe (Audrey Tatou), fly around the city in a cloud-car suspended from a giant crane, viewers will either be completely enchanted or thoroughly nauseated.But it's not just Mr Gondry's labour-intensive quirkiness which is apparent in the film's opening sequences.
It is that sort of Estonian quirkiness that gives the LMC its pull.But the LMC has been cancelled.
Even so, the success of Nintendo's touch-screen handheld console, the DS, suggests that innovative technology plus relatively simple games is indeed a winning formula.The next round, then, will pit Microsoft's marketing might against Sony's technological prowess and Nintendo's quirkiness and innovation.
What is being preserved, Mr Lutz insists, is the brand's quirkiness, such as the mildly odd body shapes and the odd place for the ignition key (it's in the centre console).
It is the quirkiness of the business that makes the place an apparent success, including among curious tourists and locals.
One reason (see article) is the mathematical quirkiness of a two-round election in which people think they can vote merrily or angrily with their hearts in the first bout but soberly and sensibly with their heads in the second.
The Best Picture category was stuffed with films that combined intelligence and quirkiness with sheer entertainment: "The Social Network", "Inception", "True Grit", "Winter's Bone", "Toy Story 3", "The Kids Are All Right", "Black Swan", etc.
"Ambition is a very important part of our culture," says Mr Brin, "and the depth of science you can do at Google is [like] nowhere else in the world".Google's quirkiness is embodied in a bronze replica of a skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus rex, nicknamed Stan, which stands near the entrance to a building in the Googleplex.
Foods with Iberian and North African flavours are served with British quirkiness.
