Silicon Quotes - Page 4

• The more angels we have in Silicon Valley, the better. We are funding innovation. We are funding the next Facebook, Google, and Twitter.

  Ron Conway

  Angel, Google, Innovation

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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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• 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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• I didn't know anything about Silicon Valley.

  Chris Hughes

  Valleys, Knows, Silicon Valley

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Even Silicon Valley investors have put well over a $1 billion in new energy technologies.

  Daniel Yergin

  Technology, Energy, Valleys

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• My advice is never let a publicist call you a 'visionary.' I've hung out with the visionaries at the famed Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. I've been a successful Silicon Valley entrepreneur. I wouldn't touch 'visionary' with a 10-foot pole.

  Robert Metcalfe

  Successful, Feet, Entrepreneur

  "The Visionary Thing". www.wired.com. November 01, 1999.

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• The next Google or Facebook will come from somewhere other than Silicon Valley.

  Niklas Zennstrom

  Google, Valleys, Next

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• Silicon Bayou - aka Lafayette, LA - is the best kept secret reservoir of innovation mojo in America

  Todd Park

  Best Kept Secrets, America, Aka

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• Silicon Valley is a mindset, not a location.

  Reid Hoffman

  Location, Valleys, Mindset

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• I think there are four or five interesting pockets where a lot of cool technology companies are getting started. Chicago is one of them. New York is certainly another. Silicon Valley really dominates. And you're seeing some stuff out of Boston and Seattle and down South.

  Eric Lefkofsky

  New York, Technology, Thinking

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• The Silicon Valley Manufacturing Group strongly supports green-line policies, because the only way to attract top level employees and their families is to protect the region's open space and environment. We want to build a community that is demonstrates smart growth rather than a model for L.A.-type growth.

  Carl Guardino

  Nature, Smart, Space

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• I think the Titanic disaster has parallels today. The closest think I can think of is the silicon chip.. We're all kind of bowing to this computer god, thinking it's going to fix everything and we're geniuses for inventing this. And, you know, I just think we should pay attention to disasters of the past.

  Billy Zane

  Past, Thinking, Attention

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• The culture around here is much less cutthroat than it is in, say, Silicon Valley, or even within the non-profit culture in D.C.

  Ethan Zuckerman

  Culture, Valleys, Profit

  "Dot-coms turn declining small town into 'Silicon Village'" by Perri Peltz, cnn.com. December 30, 2000.

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• I often have said to people that there are really two cities in the country where the outlook is always forward-looking - there is never really a backward-looking tendency. My banking work has taken me out to Palo Alto, what is commonly called Silicon Valley. And you sense out there is always a forward-looking outlook. And New York City.

  Harold Ford, Jr.

  Country, New York, Taken

  Interview with Michael Barbaro, www.nytimes.com. January 12, 2010.

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• Look at what Silicon Valley has done - the advance of computers.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Valleys, Looks, Done

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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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• Running a successful, growing company in Silicon Valley can create an ironic sort of depression and delusion. The better you're doing, the higher the stakes, and higher expectations for you to win. Maybe that's why people say it's so hard. But that doesn't make it hard. That just makes it distracting.

  David Ulevitch

  Running, Successful, Winning

  "Honestly, It's Not All That Hard To Start A Company" by David Ulevitch, www.businessinsider.com. November 20, 2012.

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• Silicon Valley is 130 miles from Sacramento, but it might as well be a million miles away given how it operates.

  Meg Whitman

  Valleys, Might, Miles

  The Economist, October 02, 2010.

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• Here in Silicon Valley, I have taken part in hundreds of conversations trying to convince people to dive in and become entrepreneurs. All too often, innovators with good, safe, jobs are unwilling to put their family's access to health care at risk by walking away from company-backed medical insurance.

  Eric Ries

  Jobs, Taken, Walking Away

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• Silicon Valley is way more correlated with Nasdaq than anyone admits.

  Bill Gurley

  Valleys, Way, Silicon Valley

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• Women had been on the verge of taking over the world-the Western world, anyway. Then some sexist pig in Silicon Valley invented the cell phone and women took a sidetrack on which all four billion of them would soon be happily talking to each other twenty-four hours a day, getting nothing else done, and Men Would Be Back.

  John Sandford

  Men, Phones, Pigs

  John Sandford (2015). “Gathering Prey: Prey”, p.53, Penguin

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