Best Silicon Valley Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“In November 2011, San Francisco magazine ran a story on female entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley and illustrated it by superimposing the featured women's heads onto male bodies. The only body type they could imagine for successful entrepreneurship was wearing a tie or a hoodie. Our culture needs to find a robust image of female success that is first, not male, and second, not a white woman on the phone, holding a crying baby.”

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Author:Sheryl Sandberg

“Algorithm without humanity is digital barbarism.”

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Book:Hometown Human: To Live for Soil and Society

Source: Hometown Human: To Live for Soil and Society

“Innovation is the combination of different ideas and contribution of the different minds.”

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Author:#MMahendra001

“If it takes $300bn to end world hunger, and 7 trillion to fund the next AI wonder, how many people have to starve to death, to feed the appetite of the cyberworld?”

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Book:Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

Source: Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“In entrepreneurial finance, the asymmetry between what needs to be backed and what actually gets financed—often driven by purely speculative expectations—is truly remarkable. Case in point: CB Insights has been doing an admirable job publishing its "mortality reports," analyzing why some of the most promising and heavily vetted startups fail. And for years, the number one reason for failure among VC-backed startups has remained the same: There was no market need.”

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Book:Raise and Rise: Funding Sources for Your Startup in the Era of Digital Transformation & Blockchain

Source: Raise and Rise: Funding Sources for Your Startup in the Era of Digital Transformation & Blockchain

“It is best to be the CEO; it is satisfactory to be an early employee, maybe the fifth or sixth or perhaps the tenth. Alternately, one may become an engineer devising precious algorithms in the cloisters of Google and its like. Otherwise, one becomes a mere employee. A coder of websites at Facebook is no one in particular. A manager at Microsoft is no one. A person (think woman) working in customer relations is a particular type of no one, banished to the bottom, as always, for having spoken directly to a non-technical human being. All these and others are ways for strivers to fall by the wayside — as the startup culture sees it — while their betters race ahead of them. Those left behind may see themselves as ordinary, even failures.”

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Book:Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology

Source: Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology

“more than just a corporate thriller, its about the lifestyle and culture of Silicon Valley”

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Book:Sand Hill Road

Source: Sand Hill Road

“In America, the glass is neither full nor empty. It is buy one, get one free.”

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Book:Closure of the Helpdesk — A Geek Tragedy

Source: Closure of the Helpdesk — A Geek Tragedy

“He was certifiably insane, an Ayn Rander who fancied himself an Übermensch and “the Singularity’s chosen avatar,”

Internet Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist John Mcafee

Book:Purity

Source: Purity

“My own psychic burden was that I could command a six-figure salary, yet I did not know how to do anything. Whatever I learned to do in my late twenties, I learned from online tutorials: how to remove mold from a windowsill; slow-cook fish; straighten a cowlick; self-administer a breast exam. Whenever I wrenched a piece of self-assembly furniture into place, or reinforced a loose button, I experienced an unfamiliar and antiquated type of satisfaction. I went so far as to buy a sewing machine, like I was looking for ways to shame myself.a”

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Book:Uncanny Valley

Source: Uncanny Valley

“Their extreme wealth and privilege served only to make them obsessed with insulating themselves from the very real and present danger of climate change, rising sea levels, mass migration, global pandemics, nativist panic, and resource depletion. For them, the future of technology is about only one thing: escape from the rest of us.”

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Book:Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires

Source: Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires

“God gave us ten styluses.”

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Book:Apple: The First 50 Years

Source: Apple: The First 50 Years

“Se è corretta la mia ipotesi che il capitale cloud sta prevalendo sul capitale terrestre, risucchiando sempre più rendita cloud dalla catena del valore globale, allora l'Europa è in grossi guai. Perché non è la Cina. Non ha una sola azienda Big Tech che possa competere con quelle della Silicon Valley e i suoi sistemi finanziari sono in tutto e per tutto dipendenti da Wall Street.”

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Book:Tecnofeudalesimo: Cosa ha ucciso il capitalismo

Source: Tecnofeudalesimo: Cosa ha ucciso il capitalismo

“The real force of Silicon Valley is the mentality, the spirit. There's no reason at all that can't be replicated in Paris.”

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Author:Xavier Niel

“It had not yet been named Silicon Valley, but you had the defense industry, you had Hewlett-Packard. But you also had the counter-culture, the Bay Area. That entire brew came together in Steve Jobs.”

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Author:Erik Qualman

“Even Silicon Valley investors have put well over a $1 billion in new energy technologies.”

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Author:Daniel Yergin

“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.”

“My advice is never let a publicist call you a 'visionary.' I've hung out with the visionaries at the famed Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. I've been a successful Silicon Valley entrepreneur. I wouldn't touch 'visionary' with a 10-foot pole.”

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Author:Robert Metcalfe

“The next Google or Facebook will come from somewhere other than Silicon Valley.”

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Author:Niklas Zennstrom

“Silicon Valley is a mindset, not a location.”

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Author:Reid Hoffman

“I think there are four or five interesting pockets where a lot of cool technology companies are getting started. Chicago is one of them. New York is certainly another. Silicon Valley really dominates. And you're seeing some stuff out of Boston and Seattle and down South.”

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Author:Eric Lefkofsky

“I remember when being a 'a company man' was a badge of honor; today in Silicon Valley it may brand you a loser or, in the best case scenario, someone afraid to take risks. Ten years ago, if you saw a resume that had multiple jobs in ten years, you would be worried about the capability of the individual. Not so now.”

“I was in Bangalore, India, the Silicon Valley of India, when I realized that the world was flat.”

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Author:Thomas Friedman

“The culture around here is much less cutthroat than it is in, say, Silicon Valley, or even within the non-profit culture in D.C.”

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Author:Ethan Zuckerman

“The technology companies don't understand creative things at all. Silicon Valley's view of the creative process in Hollywood is a bunch of guys in their young thirties sitting on a couch, drinking beer, and thinking up jokes.”

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Author:Steve Jobs

“Running a successful, growing company in Silicon Valley can create an ironic sort of depression and delusion. The better you're doing, the higher the stakes, and higher expectations for you to win. Maybe that's why people say it's so hard. But that doesn't make it hard. That just makes it distracting.”

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Author:David Ulevitch

“Silicon Valley is 130 miles from Sacramento, but it might as well be a million miles away given how it operates.”

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Author:Meg Whitman

“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.”

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Author:Daniel Suarez

“Silicon Valley is way more correlated with Nasdaq than anyone admits.”

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Author:Bill Gurley

“At the core of Silicon Valley is a passion for 'yes.'”

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Author:Steven Levy

“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.”

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Author:Vivek Wadhwa

“Who do you think made the first stone spears? The Asperger guy. If you were to get rid of all the autism genetics, there would be no more Silicon Valley.”

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Author:Temple Grandin

“My relationship with Silicon Valley and the tech community historically has been really good. Many of these folks are my friends.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“The future economic success of Silicon Valley will be contingent on whether we have a good quality of life. World-class workers will only want to come to a world-class living environment.”

“The Silicon Valley Manufacturing Group strongly supports green-line policies, because the only way to attract top level employees and their families is to protect the region's open space and environment. We want to build a community that is demonstrates smart growth rather than a model for L.A.-type growth.”

“Look at what Silicon Valley has done - the advance of computers.”

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Author:Buzz Aldrin

“Here in Silicon Valley, I have taken part in hundreds of conversations trying to convince people to dive in and become entrepreneurs. All too often, innovators with good, safe, jobs are unwilling to put their family's access to health care at risk by walking away from company-backed medical insurance.”

“Women had been on the verge of taking over the world-the Western world, anyway. Then some sexist pig in Silicon Valley invented the cell phone and women took a sidetrack on which all four billion of them would soon be happily talking to each other twenty-four hours a day, getting nothing else done, and Men Would Be Back.”

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Book:Gathering Prey: Prey

Source: Gathering Prey: Prey

“In Silicon Valley, when you're a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.”

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Author:Ben Horowitz

“I live a half mile from the San Andreas fault - a fact that bubbles up into my consciousness every time some other part of the world experiences an earthquake. I sometimes wonder whether this subterranean sense of impending disaster is at least partly responsible for Silicon Valley's feverish, get-it-done-yesterday work norms.”

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Author:Gary Hamel

“Swiss watchmaking and Silicon Valley is a marriage of technological innovation with watchmaking credibility. Our collaboration provides a rich host of synergies, forming a win-win partnership, and the potential for our three companies is enormous.”

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Author:Jean-Claude Biver

“The hardware and the software will come from Silicon Valley. But the watch case, the dial, the design, the idea, the crown, that part of the watch will, of course, be Swiss.”

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Author:Jean-Claude Biver

“Current ethos in Silicon Valley is that if you build a website that people keep coming back to and is changing the lives of millions, you can eventually make money.”

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Author:Daphne Koller

“We who work in technology have nurtured an especially rare gift: the opportunity to effect change at an unprecedented scale and rate. Technology, community, and capitalism combine to make Silicon Valley the potential epicenter of vast positive change.”

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Author:Justin Rosenstein

“The City of London has never been known for understanding technology and has never matched Silicon Valley's tradition of knowledgeable investment in technology start-ups, just as the U.K. government has never matched the vast investment made by the U.S. government.”

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Author:Geoff Mulgan

“It is sort of a bit of a caricature of capitalism, that it's always this zero-sum game where you have winners and losers. Silicon Valley, the technology industry at its best, creates a situation where everybody can be a winner.”

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Author:Peter Thiel

“The Internet is the great equalizer.The technology which emanated from the Silicon Valley of California has more potential to ameliorate social inequality than any development in the history of the world, including the industrial revolution.”

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Author:Benazir Bhutto

“If, as Steven King once wrote, 'Valleys are the dimples on the face of the earth,' then Silicon Valley is undoubtedly the deepest, most sparkling dimple of them all.”

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Book:The Toonies Invade Silicon Valley

Source: The Toonies Invade Silicon Valley

“In Silicon Valley, if you spend a lot of time thinking about the obstacles, you'll talk yourself out of everything, because the more you look at it, the less logical something sounds, since no one has done it yet.”

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Author:Dan Rosensweig

“Japan will change. Let's create a country where innovation is constantly happening, giving birth to new industries to lead the world, when I visit Silicon Valley I want to think about how we can take Silicon Valley's ways and make them work in Japan.”

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Author:Shinzo Abe

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