Silicon Quotes · Page 2

“SILICON VALLEY WAS THE BIRTHPLACE OF LORD MACHINA,”

— Julie Kagawa

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

— Steven Levy

We don't celebrate failure in Silicon Valley. We celebrate learning

— Reid Hoffman

I feel all of the archetypes in Silicon Valley probably exist in some other form in other subcultures.

— Zach Woods

What created Silicon Valley was a culture of openness, and there is no future to Silicon Valley without it.

— Sarah Lacy

The entire world is now a rival to Silicon Valley. No country, state, region, nor city has a lock on innovation in…

— Fred Wilson

You want failures to be small and informational. Silicon Valley does very well. It knows how to use failure as a tool…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I'm as fond of my body as anyone, but if I can be 200 with a body of silicon, I'll take it.

— Danny Hillis

You could use many adjectives to describe Silicon Valley; I don't think 'normal' is one of them.

— John Collison

“...a more open and honest appraisal of the true nature of Silicon Valley and its opportunities as well as the many problems.”

— David Welch

Silicon Valley is super competitive and super expensive for talent, for office space, for everything.

— Nathan Blecharczyk

The way life manages information involves a logical structure that differs fundamentally from mere complex chemistry. Therefore chemistry alone will not explain…

— Paul Davies

You might call me a tech intermediary. I know how to talk to the people in Silicon Valley and then take that…

— Marc Ostrofsky

Sometimes, in Silicon Valley, there is this attitude that we know best and we can change the world. The boldness allows us…

— Ro Khanna

Labor-rich manufacturing doesn't exist anymore. Manufacturing jobs are white-collar, Silicon Valley programmers or highly-skilled technicians. They are not going to employ lots…

— David Brooks

The problems that you see startups tackling are dramatically different in different cities. Silicon Valley is unlikely to produce the same set…

— Andrew Yang

The point of Silicon Valley, at least when I moved here, was we're all trying to do stuff, and none of us…

— Chamath Palihapitiya

There's a reason why Silicon Valley is the worldwide innovation center, or why this is the startup valley, because I truly believe…

— Eric Yuan

ISIS is recruiting through the Internet. ISIS is using the Internet better than we are using the Internet, and it was our…

— Donald Trump

Where you live matters: there's only one MIT. And there's only one Hollywood and only one Silicon Valley. This isn't a coincidence:…

— Drew Houston

Silicon Valley isn't usually where aspiring authors go to kick-start a literary reputation. [...] How'd he do it? By courting bloggers and…

— Daniel Suarez

The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist -- McDonald's cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the builder…

— Thomas Friedman

I'm speaking to you from Silicon Valley, where some of the most prominent and successful companies have built their businesses by lulling…

— Tim Cook

Everywhere, the rate of change is so fast that large U.S. companies are in constant danger of disruption. Not from competition in…

— Peter Diamandis

I remember when being a 'a company man' was a badge of honor; today in Silicon Valley it may brand you a…

— Maynard Webb

Silicon Valley is actually a prime target for an ICBM missile strike. It occurred to me as I has touring Apple Park…

— Ro Khanna

think there's a culture of Silicon Valley that seems to have the attitude that you can have it both ways, that you…

— Astra Taylor

Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world.

— Elon Musk

I would say probably Pirates of Silicon Valley just because I'm proud of the work, playing Gates.

— Anthony Michael Hall

For all the billions of dollars created here, Silicon Valley is remarkably stingy when it comes to giving.

— Sarah Lacy

No one in Silicon Valley loves virtual reality or believes in its future as much as Clay Bavor.

— Steven Levy

The rest of the world views the USA the way Silicon Valley views Microsoft. Except with tanks.

— Brad Templeton

“neighborhood was filled with engineers from Hewlett-Packard, then as now one of”

— Malcolm Gladwell

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

— Ron Gutman

Taiwan's development in the past 20 years in high tech is almost 100 percent related to Silicon Valley.

— Stan Shih

“In a sense, Silicon Valley was born out of Shockley's betrayal of Bell Labs' ethics.”

— Arun Rao

The more angels we have in Silicon Valley, the better. We are funding innovation. We are funding the next Facebook, Google, and…

— Ron Conway

We talk to our partners in Silicon Valley every week, so we have a real sense of what goes on.

— Peter Barris

The days when you needed amazing Silicon Graphics machines to run animation software are gone now.

— Dave Rowntree

Silicon Valley is the best place to start a tech company in so many ways.

— Niklas Zennstrom