Silicon Quotes

• Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect.

  Jack Dorsey

  Business, Hard Work, Starting Up

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• Massive elimination is the most important step and the most neglected step for entrepreneurs.

  Tim Ferriss

  Entrepreneur, Important, Steps

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• The body can endure compromise and the mind can be seduced by it. Only the heart protests. The heart. Carbon-based primitive in a silicon world.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Heart, Mind, World

  Jeanette Winterson (2013). “The Powerbook”, p.40, Random House

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• Such a bandwidth! God, who may not have a brain made of neurons, or a CPU made of silicon, but if he has the powers attributed to him he must have something far more elaborately and non-randomly constructed than the largest brain or the largest computer we know.

  Richard Dawkins

  Brain, Neurons, May

  "The God Delusion". Book by Richard Dawkins, 2006.

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• Israel is the second Silicon Valley, and it is therefore the only other place we have chosen to expand our activities.

  Michael Moritz

  Israel, Valleys, Economy

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• The problem isn't that Silicon Valley is keeping women down or not doing enough to encourage female entrepreneurs. The opposite is true. No, the problem is that not enough women want to become entrepreneurs.

  Michael Arrington

  Opposites, Entrepreneur, Female

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• 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.

  Peter Thiel

  Zero, Technology, Games

  Interview with Victoria Brown, bigthink.com. November 15, 2010.

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• 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.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Technology, Government, Cities

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• 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.

  Justin Rosenstein

  Technology, Opportunity, Community

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• 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.

  Daphne Koller

  Ethos, People, Valleys

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• 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.

  Jean-Claude Biver

  Ideas, Design, Watches

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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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• 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.

  Dan Rosensweig

  Thinking, Sound, Valleys

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• 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.

  Shinzo Abe

  Change, Country, Thinking

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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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• Something new will always be the source of growth in Silicon Valley.

  Steve Jurvetson

  Growth, Valleys, Something New

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• In physics, one of the most exciting areas is in nanotech. With computers exhausting the power of silicon, Silicon Valley could become a Rust Belt, unless we can find replacements, such as quantum computers and molecular computers. To be a leader in any field, one has to have a great imagination. Sure, we have to know the basics and fundamentals. But beyond that, we have to let our imagination soar.

  Michio Kaku

  Imagination, Leader, Valleys

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• The girls are beautiful in Hollywood - and enough silicon to caulk a sink.

  Adam Ferrara

  Funny, Beautiful, Girl

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• I saw that we needed to grow but our top line wasn't growing, so we had to find other ways to grow the business. We had to reshape our business and acquire share in a non conventional way. But most tech leaders don't come out of a business background. They really have a parochial point of view. All they know are the go-go years of Silicon Valley. That's the environment in which they were raised.

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Views, Years

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• If you want to build a great company, get the hell out of Silicon Valley.

  Bill Gates

  Valleys, Want, Hell

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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• Anonymous sources are to journalism what silicon enhancements are to the feminine figure; they look impressive to the gullible, but something doesn't feel right.

  Larry King

  Looks, Enhancement, Journalism

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• 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.

  Jean-Claude Biver

  Winning, Innovation, Collaboration

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• In Silicon Valley, when you're a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.

  Ben Horowitz

  Entrepreneur, Valleys, Company

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• 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.

  Steve Jobs

  Drinking, Beer, Technology

  Source: www.esquire.com

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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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