Top 524 Silicon Quotes & Sayings

My mission is to grow business in Silicon Alley.

Silicon Valley, after all, feeds off the existence of computers, the internet, the IT systems, satellites, the whole of micro electronics and so on, but a lot of that comes straight out of the state sector of the economy. Silicon Valley developed, but they expanded and turned it into commercial products and so on, but the innovation is on the basis of fundamental technological development that took places in places like this [MIT] on government funding, and that continues.

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.

Silicon Valley is a mindset, not a location.

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.

There's no more silicon in Silicon Valley. It's all iPhone apps.

I didn't know anything about Silicon Valley.

America tends to assume Silicon Valley-style innovators can drive quick and transformative changes, but even Silicon Valley's would-be masters of the universe have discovered that energy transitions are subject to time spans and technical constraints that defy their reach.

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

There is a huge amount of wealth that's generated here in Silicon Valley.

I'm coming to Silicon Valley to turn up!

I don't program, so I don't belong in Silicon Valley. If I did belong in Silicon Valley, I'd be there creating a revolutionary compression algorithm for billions of dollars.

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

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

Most of the stress we feel here in Silicon Valley is self-inflicted.

Silicon Valley is actually a prime target for an ICBM missile strike. It occurred to me as I has touring Apple Park that if I was concerned about Americans' safety and the symbol of America's future I would think that those is Silicon Valley as the most vulnerable. That's where you would be attacking the future economy.

Silicon Valley loves a good origin story.

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

The best training ground in the world is Silicon Valley and the tech space.

Sometimes, in Silicon Valley, there is this attitude that we know best and we can change the world. The boldness allows us to invent the future. But, we need more empathy for those who are left behind and a recognition that Silicon Valley can't just call the shots and expect change.

The amounts of money in Silicon Valley are staggering.

Folks are leaving Silicon Valley, mostly because they can't afford to stay.

When I got to the Bay Area, everyone was talking about 'Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley,' so I just wanted to go and learn more about it.

What created Silicon Valley was a culture of openness, and there is no future to Silicon Valley without it.

Just the number of people - 'Silicon Valley''s a relatively small, core cast, whereas 'The Office' was enormous. Also, I feel more of a sense of ownership of 'Silicon Valley' because I've been there from the get-go.

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

There is no fear in Silicon Valley right now.

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 thriving in a rapidly changing world.

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.

Silicon Valley has infinite access to capital and can lose money indefinitely.

In 2014, Utah cities Salt Lake City and Provo both surpassed Silicon Valley in per-deal venture capital averages. From large, multi-campus companies to promising start-ups, Silicon Slopes offers a promising climate for businesses. The entire tech industry has its eyes on Utah.

If I were starting now I would do things very differently. I didn't know anything. In Silicon Valley, you get this feeling that you have to be out here. But it's not the only place to be. If I were starting now, I would have stayed in Boston. [Silicon Valley] is a little short-term focused and that bothers me.

In Silicon Valley, you want things done instantly.

I really knew almost nothing about Silicon Valley. I read that Steve Jobs book and watched a bunch of documentaries, and read the book about Mark Zuckerberg. I tried to learn some stuff, but there are consultants on the Silicon Valley show that know so much about it where you can get answers. To me, it's more important to get the particulars about that type of person as opposed to the specifics of the technology world.

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.

I hope to someday live in a world where there are lots more Silicon Valleys.

At the core of Silicon Valley is a passion for 'yes.'

Silicon Valley has always been in my blood.

The real secret of Silicon Valley is that it's really all about the people

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

...Silicon Valley's success comes from the way its companies build alliances with their employees.

I would say Silicon Valley and New York have inflated salaries.

The iPad is becoming the babysitter... Silicon Valley programs these things to be addictive.

Silicon Valley does not breed great technology. Instead, the smartest people from around the world tend to move to Silicon Valley.

I'm probably the worst Silicon Valley insider ever. I don't hang out with Silicon Valley people.

I'm a Silicon Valley guy. I just think people from Silicon Valley can do anything.

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.

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

It would be idiotic to position ourselves against Silicon Valley.

The people running Silicon Valley are not making the show because they want to do a satire of Silicon Valley. They are just comedy writers, and they want to make a funny show.

People in Silicon Valley are starting to realize politics is not a toy.

China is to stock fraud as Silicon Valley is to technology.

I love everyone on 'Silicon Valley.'

When I first moved to Hollywood from Silicon Valley, I had some misgivings. But I found that there were some advantages to being in Hollywood. And, in fact, some advantages to owning your own media company. And I also found that Hollywood and Silicon Valley have a lot more in common than I would have dreamed.

Half of Silicon Valley's got a little bit of autism.

Silicon is all around but it's tied up in rocks... with these very strong silicon-oxygen bonds that living systems would have to break in order to use silicon.

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 to an actual product.

Silicon Valley's definition of luxury is a Tesla in every garage.

Outsiders think of Silicon Valley as a success story, but in truth, it is a graveyard. Failure.. is Silicon Valley's greatest strength. Every failed product or enterprise is a lesson stored in the collective memory of the country. We not only don't stigmatize failure, sometime we even admire it. Venture Capitalists actually like to see a little failure in the resumes of entrepreneurs.

In Delicious's case, it's a great brand that belongs in Silicon Valley.