Silicon Quotes
124 quotes by 101 authors
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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,…
— Bill Gates
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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…
— Bill Gates
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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…
— Temple Grandin
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I live a half mile from the San Andreas fault - a fact that bubbles up into my consciousness every time some other part of…
— Gary Hamel
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Introverts listen better, they assess risks more carefully, they can be wiser managers. It's not for nothing that the Silicon Valley billionaires are so often…
— Jeffrey Kluger
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A remarkable thing about the Silicon Valley culture is that its status structure is so based on technical accomplishment and prowess.
— Jaron Lanier
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I have a very basic leg. But it has a silicon cover on it. I have a flat foot leg, a high heel leg and…
— Heather Mills
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Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world.
— Elon Musk
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I'm a Silicon Valley guy. I just think people from Silicon Valley can do anything.
— Elon Musk
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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…
— Elon Musk
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Silicon Valley has evolved a critical mass of engineers and venture capitalists and all the support structure - the law firms, the real estate, all…
— Elon Musk
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Some article called me the most feared man in Silicon Valley. Good Lord! Why? My teenage boys got a kick out of it: 'Dad, how…
— Nathan Myhrvold
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Silicon Valley's involvement with Washington dates from one event, which was John Scully - who was the CEO of Apple - had dinner with President…
— Eric Schmidt
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Finnish companies tend to be very traditional, not taking many risks. Silicon Valley is completely different: people here really live on the edge.
— Linus Torvalds
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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…
— Linus Torvalds
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The entire world is now a rival to Silicon Valley. No country, state, region, nor city has a lock on innovation in technology anymore.
— Fred Wilson
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Silicon Valley is the best place to start a tech company in so many ways.
— Niklas Zennstrom
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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…
— Mark Zuckerberg
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A lot of the geeks in Silicon Valley will tell you they no longer believe in the ability of policymakers in Washington to accomplish anything.…
— Evgeny Morozov
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As befits Silicon Valley, 'big data' is mostly big hype, but there is one possibility with genuine potential: that it might one day bring loans…
— Evgeny Morozov
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