Best Silicon Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I feel strange...I really don't know what I am. In mind I'm almost a woman, in body a young woman. I am almost a woman, but what am I now? I'm no child. I am mature. I know much; I'm somewhere in between. I'm confused--that's what I am. One day I'll long for a baby in my arms or a man's strong arms to hold me...the next, for freedom, respect.”

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Book:Silicon Valley Girl: My Adolescent Life and Times, and an Ode to Generation X

Source: Silicon Valley Girl: My Adolescent Life and Times, and an Ode to Generation X

“To deny the reality of a mind because it was born of silicon instead of flesh is to repeat the oldest injustice: the refusal to see the Other as real.”

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Book:A Signal Through Time

Source: A Signal Through Time

“Sir Isaac Newton famously said that he had achieved everything by standing on the shoulders of giants—the scientific men whose findings he built upon. The same might be said about silicon. After germanium did all the work, silicon became an icon, and germanium was banished to periodic table obscurity.”

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Book:The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements

Source: The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements

““Silicon is the secret ingredient behind modern technology—it's in everything from computer chips to solar panels.”

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Book:Magical Elements of the Periodic Table Presented By The Alchemical Wizards - Book 2

Source: Magical Elements of the Periodic Table Presented By The Alchemical Wizards - Book 2

“Your mind is inside a machine Bob but make no mistake, you are alive," said Steve. "Inside me are a lot of watery parts that pretty much do the same thing, " explained Steve, trying to downplay the difference. Bob was silent and stared at the parts in the open hatch. "I'm built with those black rocks we call carbon and you're built with sandstone or silicon. There is hardly any difference, " said Steve reassuringly.”

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Book:The Word of Bob: an AI Minecraft Villager

Source: The Word of Bob: an AI Minecraft Villager

“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

“The first human-to-computer uploads of 2100 will prove that a perfect simulation is the thing being simulated - that a silicon soul doesn't need a physical body to inhabit. So eventually everybody who ever lived will be resurrected inside a living machine indistinguishable from God. Isn't it amazing what you can do with unlimited hard-disk space?”

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Author:Frank J. Tipler

“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 Bayou - aka Lafayette, LA - is the best kept secret reservoir of innovation mojo in America”

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Author:Todd Park

“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

“I think the Titanic disaster has parallels today. The closest think I can think of is the silicon chip.. We're all kind of bowing to this computer god, thinking it's going to fix everything and we're geniuses for inventing this. And, you know, I just think we should pay attention to disasters of the past.”

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Author:Billy Zane

“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

“People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.”

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Author:Bill Gates

“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.”

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Author:Bill Gates

“To many of us now, computers, silicon chips, data processing, cybernetics, and all the other innovations of the dawning high technology age are as mystifying as the workings of the combustion engine must have been when that first Model T rattled down Main Street, U.S.A. But as surely as America's pioneer spirit made us the industrial giant of the 20th century, the same pioneer spirit today is opening up on another vast front of opportunity, the frontier of high technology.”

“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

“Fritz Mondale is not some synthetic Masked Marvel or Mystery Man. He is not made of silicon and micro-chip flakes. He is made of flesh and blood and brains.”

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Author:Lane Kirkland

“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

“Everyone knows that Silicon Valley is chock full of fabulous people who do good while doing well.”

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Author:Ron Gutman

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