Silicon Valley Quotes - Page 5

• think there's a culture of Silicon Valley that seems to have the attitude that you can have it both ways, that you can be an insurgent but also, ultimately, it's paid for by advertising, when in fact advertising is totally retrograde. Now that's an industry we should be disrupting, and maybe you disrupt it by funding public media. None of this is technological destiny; there are only social choices.

  Astra Taylor

  Attitude, Destiny, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'd met Simon [Segars] for the first time in London. He struck me as a quiet, natural-born engineer and an orthodox successor [to East]. He has a home in Silicon Valley, and he said it's just a few minutes' drive away from mine.

  Masayoshi Son

  Home, London, Firsts

  Source: asia.nikkei.com

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• Of course, the Clintons are not only corrupt but cynical as well. They accept that the progressive media, the foundations, the universities, the bureaucracies, Hollywood, and Silicon Valley honor power more than trendy left-wing politics; they well understand that their fans will, for them, make the necessary adjustments to contextualize Clinton criminality or amorality.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Media, Wings, Cynical

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• There was a transition going on - Baghdad being the intellectual capital of the world where major advances were made in agriculture and mathematics and engineering and medicine and astronomy, and then that all sort of collapsed. And I was trying to understand how such a intellectually fertile environment can lose its compass bearing. Because I think about the creative centers today - countries, or even regions. Will Silicon Valley always be as innovative? Will the United States be innovative, or will we become complacent?

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Country, Thinking, Engineering

  Source: bookriot.com

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• I think that's actually what's missing from government, for the most part. We've got a lot of policy people, but we have no technologists, even though technology is such a big part of our lives. It's just amazing, because even these big Silicon Valley companies, the masters of the universe or whatever, haven't engaged with Washington until recently. They're still playing catch-up.

  Edward Snowden

  Technology, Thinking, Government

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• The goal shouldn't be to be the next Silicon Valley (there'll always only be one of those) - it's to be your own startup community.

  Alexis Ohanian

  Goal, Community, Valleys

  Source: tech.co

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• We use technology to make it cheaper, better, and faster for the client. And then if you have the most flow, you can win. Now, having said that, Silicon Valley wants to take on this business. They think they see an opening.

  Jamie Dimon

  Winning, Technology, Thinking

  "Jamie Dimon on Finance: 'Who Owns the Future?'". Interview with John Micklethwait, www.bloomberg.com. March 1, 2016.

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• Half of Silicon Valley's got a little bit of autism.

  Temple Grandin

  Autism, Valleys, Half

  "Autism & animal welfare activist Temple Grandin". www.pbs.org. July 5, 2013.

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• Autism is a big continuum, going from someone who remains nonverbal, all the way up to geniuses on Silicon Valley. And some kids are visual thinkers like me. Other kids are pattern thinkers - your mathematicians, your programmers. And there are others, they are word thinkers. Uneven skills. You need to take the thing that they're good at and you need to work on developing it.

  Temple Grandin

  Kids, Skills, Autism

  Source: www.kshb.com

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• Autism's a very big spectrum. At one end of the spectrum, Einstein would probably be labeled autistic, Steve Jobs, half of Silicon Valley, you know, Van Gogh. And at the other end of the spectrum, you got much more severe handicaps where they never learn to speak.

  Temple Grandin

  Jobs, Autism, Valleys

  "Autism & animal welfare activist Temple Grandin". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. July 5, 2013.

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• You look around the world at geniuses, and they don't appear randomly, they appear in genius clusters. Athens in 50 BC, Florence 1500, Silicon Valley today. This is not a coincidence.

  Eric Weiner

  Florence, Valleys, Looks

  "How your neighborhood coffee shop is brewing geniuses". Interview with Paul Solman, www.pbs.org. January 21, 2016.

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• First we need to rethink the terms and recognize that we've imported this language from the technocratic class, from Silicon Valley, that talks about openness and transparency.

  Astra Taylor

  Class, Firsts, Needs

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Because I had visited Silicon Valley, I recognized the microprocessor was going to lead the second industrial revolution. We Chinese could not miss that opportunity again - we missed the first industrial revolution already. We put our effort into trying to bring this new technology from the United States to Taiwan. That was the begining of Acer.

  Stan Shih

  Technology, Opportunity, Effort

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• The romance of Silicon Valley was about money - excuse me, about changing the world, one million dollars at a time.

  Jean-Louis Gassee

  Romance, Dollars, Valleys

  "Geek Cheek" by David Diamond, www.wired.com. May 1, 1996.

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• I never knew Steve Jobs. I met him once, but I never knew him. But growing up in the Silicon Valley, he was the hero. He was the guy.

  Jon M. Chu

  Jobs, Growing Up, Hero

  Source: collider.com

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• I hope to someday live in a world where there are lots more Silicon Valleys.

  Marc Andreessen

  Valleys, World, Someday

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• Washington basically works for the corporate sector and Silicon Valley, technically at least, is suppose to sponsor initiative in creativity, whether it does or not is another question.

  Noam Chomsky

  Creativity, Valleys, Doe

  Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

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• 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.

  Betty Dravis

  Kings, Valleys, Earth

  Betty Dravis (2005). “The Toonies Invade Silicon Valley”, p.7, Just My Best Publishing Company

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• Silicon Valley, after all, feeds off the existence of computers, the internet, the IT systems, satellites, the whole of micro electronics and so on, but a lot of that comes straight out of the state sector of the economy. Silicon Valley developed, but they expanded and turned it into commercial products and so on, but the innovation is on the basis of fundamental technological development that took places in places like this [MIT] on government funding, and that continues.

  Noam Chomsky

  Government, Technological Development, Innovation

  Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

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

  Ron Gutman

  People, Valleys, Fabulous

  "It’s All About the People!" by Ron Gutman, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• 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 of people.

  David Brooks

  Jobs, White, People

  "Brooks and Dionne on the GOP's dilemma and the role of 'common decency' in the campaign". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. August 12, 2016.

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• These big Silicon Valley companies that are popping up are projecting growth skyrocketing in a few years. So they need a space they can grow into. Not so much in New York. Super conservative, super small.

  James Pearse Connelly

  New York, Years, Space

  "What goes into designing The Biggest Loser's sets, stages, and chill rooms?". Interview with AVC, tv.avclub.com. June 27, 2016.

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• I should like to express our profound gratitude to the Americans of Indian origin. The way they have conducted themselves, the way they have worked hard to carve out a niche for themselves in the Silicon Valley, I think this has also given America a new idea about what India is capable of.

  Manmohan Singh

  Gratitude, Thinking, America

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• That's what we do when we work in Silicon Valley tech startups: We think about who's going to benefit from this. That's almost the only thing we think about.

  Cathy O'Neil

  Thinking, Valleys, Benefits

  Source: www.salon.com

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• 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.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Technology, California, Valleys

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