Quotes of: Silicon Keyword

For all the billions of dollars created here, Silicon Valley is remarkably stingy when it comes to giving.

Sarah Lacy

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

Thomas Friedman

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

So a more sensible thing it seemed to me was to go to Silicon Valley and be pushing on the technology companies to accelerate the use of audio and music in computers.

Thomas Dolby

I don't think you can look at my history and say they love me to death in Silicon Valley.

Kara Swisher

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

Ben Horowitz

I'm a massive believer in brands. Silicon Valley has tried to reprogram everybody to think brands aren't valuable. Or theirs are, but yours aren't.

Tim Armstrong

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

China should be another United States from an economic standpoint. Beijing should be another Silicon Valley.

Marc Andreesen

I have always been very tech-focused, which you may almost say is the traditional CEO in Silicon Valley.

Michael Birch

There aren't many sources of money in San Diego, apart from local partnerships and local investors. It's pretty starkly polarized to Silicon Valley.

Steve Jurvetson

I had better cellular coverage on a ship in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea than I have in many parts of Silicon Valley.

Roger McNamee

Obviously there are positives to working in the epicenter of innovation. But there are also disadvantages. There is a groupthink mentality that goes on. Being based outside of Silicon Valley, you're not as subject to it.

Peter Barris

Jean-Paul Sartre, the existentialist philosopher who celebrated the anguish of decision as a hallmark of responsibility, has no place in Silicon Valley.

Evgeny Morozov

The worst thing about knowing that Gary Fairchild had been dead for a month was seeing him every day at work.

The Silicon Mage

I think governments will increasingly be tempted to rely on Silicon Valley to solve problems like obesity or climate change because Silicon Valley runs the information infrastructure through which we consume information.

Evgeny Morozov

I've been reading a lot about Silicon Valley history recently and was struck by just how core the lack of unions has been to the American tech industry's evolution. It's enabled the constant creative destruction that keeps Silicon Valley relevant and...

Sarah Lacy

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

Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation

And then there is the most dangerous risk of all - the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.

Monk and the Riddle: The Education of a Silicon Valley Entrepreneur

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

At MIT, in Professor Rodney Brooks' lab, I was involved in a project, led by Anita Flynn, to build robots using techniques similar to those used in building silicon chips. We got some silicon micro-machined motors to move a bit, but this didn't lead ...

Colin Angle