Silicon Quotes - Page 6

• Silicon-based life may be impossible for one other reason: silicon bonds readily dissolve in water.

  Steven Johnson

  Water, May, Impossible

  Steven Johnson (2010). “Where Good Ideas Come From”, p.36, Penguin

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• The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist -- McDonald's cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the builder of the F-15. And the hidden fist that keeps the world safe for Silicon Valley's technologies is called the United States Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps.

  Thomas Friedman

  Marine, Army, Technology

  "A Manifesto for the Fast World". www.nytimes.com. March 28, 1999.

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• I think that's exactly what Silicon Valley was all about in those days. Let's do a startup in our parents' garage and try to create a business.

  Walter Isaacson

  Thinking, Parent, Trying

  "Steve Jobs: Revelations from a tech giant". "Steve Jobs" with Steve Kroft, www.cbsnews.com. May 30, 2012.

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• There is no fear in Silicon Valley right now.

  Bill Gurley

  Valleys, No Fear, Right Now

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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

  Magazines, India, Would Be

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• In fact we put so many things in our mouths we constantly have to be reminded what not to eat. Look at that little package of silicon gel that's inside your sneakers. It says DO NOT EAT for a reason. Somewhere sometime some genius bought a pair of sneakers and said Ooooh look. They give you free mints with the shoes

  Morgan Spurlock

  Sneakers, Shoes, Giving

  Morgan Spurlock (2006). “Don't Eat This Book: Fast Food and the Supersizing of America”, p.10, Penguin

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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 use to accomplish a particular task and when one talks about appropriate technology in developing countries, appropriate may mean anything from fire to solar electricity.

  Mae Jemison

  Country, Mean, Technology

  "A Space to Call Her Own". Interview with Paula Lipp, www.graduatingengineer.com. September 29, 1999.

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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. Silicon Valley consultants call it Web 2.0, as if it were a new version of some old software. But it's really a revolution.

  Lev Grossman

  People, Together, Different

  "You — Yes, You — Are TIME's Person of the Year" by Lev Grossman, content.time.com. December 25, 2006.

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• No place in the US better exemplifies the ethos to engineer new digital technologies than Silicon Valley

  John Maeda

  Technology, Ethos, Valleys

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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 one thing let to another, got very involved in high tech, and formed a company and it ended up doing pretty well.

  Thomas Dolby

  Technology, Years, Two

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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 big with entrepreneurs that sit next to you in your coworking space.  It’s about collaborating with tech gurus, social media wizards and community leaders at cool business events.  It’s the people that make a community an entrepreneurial one—not the location—and it’s up to you to contribute.

  Brad Feld

  Attitude, Thinking, Media

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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

  Ivy, League, Valleys

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• The Kindle is the most successful electronic book-reading tablet so far, but that's not saying much; Silicon Valley is littered with the corpses of e-book reader projects.

  David Pogue

  Book, Reading, Successful

  "The Kindle: Good before, better now". www.nytimes.com. February 24, 2009.

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• Most young dealers of the Silicon Chip Era regard a reference library as merely a waste of space. Old Timers on the West Coast seem to retain a fondness for reference books that goes beyond the practical. Everything there is to know about a given volume may be only a click away, but there are still a few of us who'd rather have the book than the click. A bookman's love of books is a love of books, not merely of the information in them.

  Larry McMurtry

  Book, Space, Library

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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 physical body to inhabit. So eventually everybody who ever lived will be resurrected inside a living machine indistinguishable from God. Isn't it amazing what you can do with unlimited hard-disk space?

  Frank J. Tipler

  Space, Perfect, Soul

  "Deux Ex Silico". www.wired.com. January 01, 2000.

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• If we hadn't put a man on the moon, there wouldn't be a Silicon Valley today

  John Sculley

  Moon, Men, Valleys

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• The zero-sum world [the movie The Social Network] portrayed has nothing in common with the Silicon Valley I know, but I suspect it's a pretty accurate portrayal of the dysfunctional relationships that dominate Hollywood.

  Peter Thiel

  Zero, Hollywood, Valleys

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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 Area. That entire brew came together in Steve Jobs.

  Erik Qualman

  Jobs, Counter Culture, Together

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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 that is both psychedelic and telepathic; a model for the human communications of the future. In the not-too-distant future men and women may shed the monkey body to become virtual octopi swimming in a silicon sea.

  Terence McKenna

  Believe, Communication, Swimming

  Terence McKenna (1998). “True Hallucinations: And, the Archaic Revival”, M J F Books

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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

  Real, Paris, Valleys

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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 they were not actually qualified to do it.

  Marc Andreessen

  Valleys, Graduates, Late

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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

  Coffee, Evil, Giving

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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

  Valleys, Matter, Remember

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• I didn't know anything about Silicon Valley.

  Chris Hughes

  Valleys, Knows, Silicon Valley

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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 that - that are all actually geared toward being accepting of startups.

  Elon Musk

  Real, Law, Support

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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