Silicon Quotes
124 Silicon quotes by 101 unique authors
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If I had to pick three of my favorite magazines, they would be 'Fast Company', 'Silicon India', and 'Smithsonian.'
— Padmasree Warrior
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Silicon Valley, "the largest legal creation of wealth in history," was built largely by unprofessional amateurs using math, sand, and the institutions of freedom. The…
— Michael Strong
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Steve Jobs was probably mildly on the autistic spectrum. Basically, you've probably known people who were geeky and socially awkward but very smart. When does…
— Temple Grandin
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The days when you needed amazing Silicon Graphics machines to run animation software are gone now.
— Dave Rowntree
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He’s totally different from the typical jock. He has no ego. That’s unique for someone with such accolades. His strength comes from a higher power.…
— Unknown Author
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I believe that the totemic image for the future is the octopus. This is because the squids and octopi have perfected a form of communication…
— Terence McKenna
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It’s not about having a Silicon Valley attitude—it’s about having an entrepreneurial attitude. It’s about partnering with other organizations in and around your area. It’s about thinking…
— Brad Feld
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And if the computer gives you any back talk, pour some well-sugared office coffee into its evil little silicon brain.
— Edward Abbey
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It was supposed to be a year or two just to refresh my batteries, but I moved to Silicon Valley in the early 90's, and…
— Thomas Dolby
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No place in the US better exemplifies the ethos to engineer new digital technologies than Silicon Valley
— John Maeda
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The new Web is a very different thing. It's a tool for bringing together the small contributions of millions of people and making them matter.…
— Lev Grossman
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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: for whatever you're…
— Drew Houston
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We must expect the discovery of many as yet unknown elements-for example, elements analogous to aluminum and silicon- whose atomic weight would be between 65…
— Dmitri Mendeleev
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People always think of technology as something having silicon in it. But a pencil is technology. Any language is technology. Technology is a tool we…
— Mae Jemison
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There is no fear in Silicon Valley right now,
— Bill Gurley
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The real force of Silicon Valley is the mentality, the spirit. There's no reason at all that can't be replicated in Paris.
— Xavier Niel
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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…
— Erik Qualman
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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…
— Frank J. Tipler
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Even Silicon Valley investors have put well over a $1 billion in new energy technologies.
— Daniel Yergin
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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.…
— Robert Metcalfe
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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
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If the Ivy League was the breeding ground for the elites of the American Century, Stanford is the farm system for Silicon Valley.
— Ken Auletta
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There was a point in the late '90s where all the graduating M.B.A.'s wanted to start companies in Silicon Valley, and for the most part…
— Marc Andreessen
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I didn't know anything about Silicon Valley.
— Chris Hughes
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I've probably failed more often than anybody else in Silicon Valley. Those don't matter. I don't remember the failures. You remember the big successes.
— Vinod Khosla
Who Wrote These Silicon Quotes
101 authors contributed a total of 124 Silicon Quotes, led by these top contributors: