Silicon Quotes - page 4

The more angels we have in Silicon Valley, the better. We are funding innovation. We are funding the next Facebook, Google, and Twitter. (Ron Conway)
Everyone knows that Silicon Valley is chock full of fabulous people who do good while doing well. View quote
Ron Gutman
For all the billions of dollars created here, Silicon Valley is remarkably stingy when it comes to giving. View quote
Sarah Lacy
So a more sensible thing it seemed to me was to go to Silicon Valley and be pushing on the technology companies to accelerate the use of audio and music in computers. View quote
Thomas Dolby
An open-minded and diverse population that readily shares information, encourages experimentation, accepts failure and dispenses with formality and hierarchy is what makes Silicon Valley the successful hub that it is. View quote
Vivek Wadhwa
The natives of Silicon Valley learned long ago that when you share your knowledge with someone else, one plus one usually equals three. You both learn each other's ideas, and you come up with new ones. View quote
Vivek Wadhwa
The real force of Silicon Valley is the mentality, the spirit. There's no reason at all that can't be replicated in Paris. View quote
Xavier Niel
Silicon Valley isn't usually where aspiring authors go to kick-start a literary reputation. [...] How'd he do it? By courting bloggers and influential techies like Joi Ito, Stewart Brand, and Craig Newmark - demonstrating that if you can get the geek grapevine on your side, you don't need Random House. View quote
Daniel Suarez
The masters of the universe of Silicon Valley did not, as promised, bring us new-age tranquility, but rather only greater speed and intensity to do what we always do. Trolling, doxing, and phishing were just new versions of what Jesus warned about in the Sermon on the Mount. Spiritual transcendence is the timeless water of life; technology is simply the delivery pump. We confused the two. That water can be delivered ever more rapidly does not mean it ever changes its essence. High tech has become the great delusion. View quote
Victor Davis Hanson
She worked her toes into the sand, feeling the tiny delicious pain of the friction of tiny chips of silicon against the tender flesh between her toes. That's life. It hurts, it's dirty, and it feels very, very good. View quote
Orson Scott Card
Look at what Silicon Valley has done - the advance of computers. (Buzz Aldrin)
Half of Silicon Valley's got a little bit of autism. View quote
Temple Grandin
A spectacular anomaly came up with the hydrides of the nonmetals-an ugly bunch, about as inimical to life as one could get. Arsenic and antimony hydrides were very poisonous and smelly; silicon and phosphorous hydrides were spontaneously inflammable. I had made in my lab the hydrides of sulfur (H2S), selenium (H2Se), and tellurium (H2Te), all Group VI elements, all dangerous and vile-smelling gases. The hydride of oxygen, the first Group VI element, one might predict by analogy, would be a foul-smelling, poisonous, inflammable gas, too, condensing to a nasty liquid around −100°C. And instead it was water, H2O-stable, potable, odorless, benign, and with a host of special, indeed unique properties (its expansion when frozen, its great heat capacity, its capacity as an ionizing solvent, etc.) which made it indispensable to our watery planet, indispensable to life itself. What made it such an anomaly? [...]. View quote
Oliver Sacks
I'm a Silicon Valley guy. I just think people from Silicon Valley can do anything. View quote
Elon Musk
Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world. View quote
Elon Musk
I think the high-tech industry is used to developing new things very quickly. It's the Silicon Valley way of doing business: You either move very quickly and you work hard to improve your product technology, or you get destroyed by some other company. View quote
Elon Musk
Silicon Valley has evolved a critical mass of engineers and venture capitalists and all the support structure - the law firms, the real estate, all that - that are all actually geared toward being accepting of startups. View quote
Elon Musk
The institutions that we've built up over the years to protect our individual privacy rights from the government don't apply to the private sector. The Fourth Amendment doesn't apply to corporations. The Freedom of Information Act doesn't apply to Silicon Valley. And you can't impeach Google if it breaks its 'Don't be evil' campaign pledge. View quote
Al Franken
Silicon approaches certain fundamental limits; organic bliss is the soul catcher. View quote
Andrew Sega
I've actually found the image of Silicon Valley as a hotbed of money-grubbing tech people to be pretty false, but maybe that's because the people I hang out with are all really engineers. View quote
Linus Torvalds
My friends are people who like building cool stuff. We always have this joke about people who want to just start companies without making something valuable. There's a lot of that in Silicon Valley. (Mark Zuckerberg)
In Silicon Valley, when you're a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong. View quote
Ben Horowitz
If we hadn't put a man on the moon, there wouldn't be a Silicon Valley today. View quote
John Sculley
Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy. View quote
Bill Gates
Qualified software engineers, managers, marketers and salespeople in Silicon Valley can rack up dozens of high-paying, high-upside job offers any time they want, while national unemployment and underemployment is sky high. View quote
Marc Andreessen