Silicon Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• For Silicon Valley and its idols, innovation is the new selfishness.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Idols, Innovation, Selfishness

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• I was in Bangalore, India, the Silicon Valley of India, when I realized that the world was flat.

  Thomas Friedman

  India, Valleys, World

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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 and 75.

  Dmitri Mendeleev

  Discovery, Example, Would Be

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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, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.

  Bill Gates

  Inspirational, Fear, Ignorance

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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 doing, there's usually only one place where the top people go. You should go there. Don’t settle for anywhere else. Meeting my heroes and learning from them gave me a huge advantage. Your heroes are part of your circle too - follow them.

  Drew Houston

  Inspirational, Hero, Circles

  Drew Houston's Commencement Address at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, news.mit.edu. June 7, 2013.

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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. You can’t explain Steve Largent by computer – he doesn’t belong on an NFL field. You put his size and speed in an IBM computer up in Silicon Valley, it would chew up his data card and laugh.

  Lester Hayes

  Unique, Data, Nfl

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• The dissonance that I felt daily flew in the face of what Silicon Valley says about itself: that it is a meritocracy, that it values intelligence and creativity, that everyone has a fair shot if they just work hard enough. This was true only if you were technical, and even that may not always be enough: in the age of the social network, who you know and who your friends were was becoming increasingly important.

  Katherine Losse

  Hard Work, Creativity, Important

  Katherine Losse (2012). “The Boy Kings: A Journey into the Heart of the Social Network”, p.127, Simon and Schuster

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• In the ideology of the new Silicon Valley, work was for the owned. Play was for the owners. There was a fundamental capitalism at work: While they abhorred the idea of being a wage slave, the young men of Silicon Valley were not trying to tear down the capitalist system. They were trying to become its new masters.

  Katherine Losse

  Men, Play, Ideas

  Katherine Losse (2012). “The Boy Kings: A Journey into the Heart of the Social Network”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

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• The rest of the world views the USA the way Silicon Valley views Microsoft. Except with tanks.

  Brad Templeton

  Views, Usa, Tanks

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• I'm speaking to you from Silicon Valley, where some of the most prominent and successful companies have built their businesses by lulling their customers into complacency about their personal information. They're gobbling up everything they can learn about you and trying to monetize it. We think that's wrong. And it's not the kind of company that Apple wants to be.

  Tim Cook

  Successful, Thinking, Apples

  "Apple boss delivers strongest attack yet on Facebook and Google over privacy" by Stuart Dredge, www.theguardian.com. June 3, 2015.

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• The pressure to perform is relentless in today's workplace - regardless of where you work. We are all being asked to do more with less. I think what we could borrow from the culture of Silicon Valley is "eat your own dog food ." That is an expression used by tech types to mean using what you make or sell.

  Willow Bay

  Dog, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• You want failures to be small and informational. Silicon Valley does very well. It knows how to use failure as a tool for improvement.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Doe, Valleys, Tools

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Whatever happens in Washington, Wall Street, Hollywood or Silicon Vally in the next ten years, it will be irrelevant if our families don't come together at a much higher level. Without a renaissance of family, no new candidate can rise to save us. No new legislation, policy or program will heal our land.

  Oliver DeMille

  Wall, Years, Land

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• The institutions that we've built up over the years to protect our individual privacy rights from the government don't apply to the private sector. The Fourth Amendment doesn't apply to corporations. The Freedom of Information Act doesn't apply to Silicon Valley. And you can't impeach Google if it breaks its 'Don't be evil' campaign pledge.

  Al Franken

  Rights, Government, Years

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• The days when you needed amazing Silicon Graphics machines to run animation software are gone now.

  Dave Rowntree

  Running, Gone, Machines

  "Reanimator". Interview With Hamish Mackintosh, www.theguardian.com. April 4, 2001.

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• More and more major industries are being run on software and delivered as online services—from movies to agriculture to national defense. Many of the winners are Silicon Valley-style entrepreneurial technology companies that are invading and overturning established industry structures. Over the next 10 years, I expect many more industries to be disrupted by software, with new world-beating Silicon Valley companies doing the disruption in more cases than not.

  Marc Andreessen

  Running, Technology, Agriculture

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• I'm as fond of my body as anyone, but if I can be 200 with a body of silicon, I'll take it.

  Danny Hillis

  Body, Ifs, I Can

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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 Soviet Union had the greatest mathematicians on earth, and plenty of sand, but without the institutions of freedom their brilliant mathematicians were not empowered to create those devices that are changing the world.

  Michael Strong

  Freedom, Business, Math

  Michael Strong, John Mackey (2009). “Be the Solution: How Entrepreneurs and Conscious Capitalists Can Solve All the World?s Problems”, p.60, John Wiley and Sons

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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 geeks and nerds become autism? That's a gray area. Half the people in Silicon Valley probably have autism.

  Temple Grandin

  Jobs, Smart, Autism

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• To many of us now, computers, silicon chips, data processing, cybernetics, and all the other innovations of the dawning high technology age are as mystifying as the workings of the combustion engine must have been when that first Model T rattled down Main Street, U.S.A. But as surely as America's pioneer spirit made us the industrial giant of the 20th century, the same pioneer spirit today is opening up on another vast front of opportunity, the frontier of high technology.

  Ronald Reagan

  Technology, Opportunity, Data

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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