Quotes tagged ‘Silicon Valley’

“For centuries alchemists tried to make gold from base metals. Today, we make microchips from silicon, which is common sand, but far better than gold. Now, for several years, we had a profitable partnership, you as manufacturers, while I acquired and passed on to you industrial information that made…”

— Richard Maibaum, Michael G. Wilson, Max Zorin, Christopher Walken, imdb.com

“There's a sense here that failure is not the death knell, that it actually can be a badge of honor and a learning experience. All of our country would benefit from having that attitude towards failure.”

— Laurene Powell Jobs, seattlepi.com

“The investors, mostly from China, accounted for 40% of the $154 billion in global venture financing last year — the most ever — up from under 5% a decade ago.”

— Yasufumi Saito, Phred Dvorak, wsj.com

“If online financial planning, stock picking and Bitcoin trading are in gold rush mode, Perret and Hockey have the surefire business: the shovels and pans.”

— Alex Konrad, forbes.com

“Dr. Spencer Reid: Braden certainly would be vulnerable. Unlike classic autism, language ability is intact in people with Asperger's. They appear to lack empathy and have trouble reading social cues. Albert Einstein supposedly had it, as do some well-known Silicon Valley types. Alex Blake: Well, how…”

— Sharon Lee Watson, Dr. Spencer Reid, Matthew Gray Gubler, imdb.com

“The Trump campaign slogan, ‘Make America Great Again,’ was perhaps the single most offensive thing you could say to Silicon Valley. Silicon Valley says the future is going to be better than the past. That is the propaganda, if you will.”

— Peter Thiel, foxbusiness.com

“It's amazing we have this incredible tech thing going on in Silicon Valley, and if you go just to the East Bay, across the Bay Bridge or the Dumbarton Bridge, you're in this basically failing state, this failing state that, you know, in the next recession probably will go broke.”

— Peter Thiel, sfgate.com

“When people are unanimously on one side, that tells me not that they’ve all figured out the truth but that they are in sort of a totalitarian place, that they are in a one-party state where they are not allowed to have dissenting views.”

— Peter Thiel, foxbusiness.com

“Hi my name is Erlich Bachman, I'm a lying fuck.”

— Chris Provenzano, Dan O’Keefe, Jian Yang, Jimmy O. Yang, imdb.com

“At least the actual Judas had the curtosy to kill himself after betraying his leader, Jesus Chris. He's the CEO of the world. Ever heard of him?”

— Dan O’Keefe, Elrich Bachmann, T.J Miller, imdb.com

“The payouts of A-list actors and the wolves of Wall Street just aren’t that impressive among the Silicon Valley elite. Managing directors at top-tier investment banks may pocket a million a year and be worth tens of millions after a long career. Early employees at tech firms like Uber, Airbnb, and S…”

— Emily Chang, vanityfair.com

“The bigger you are, the more the government is going to get inside what you do and impose rules and standards. Sometimes for good, sometimes not for good.”

— Jamie Dimon, youtube.com

“Growth becomes the overriding motivation — something treasured for its own sake, not for anything it brings to the world.”

— Noam Cohen, nytimes.com

“'Ive reminded people when were in Detroit a few weeks ago that Detroit 75 years ago was in essence Silicon Valley when the car was the hot technology of the day and 75 years ago Silicon Valley was just fruit orchards.”

— Steve Case, usatoday.com

“The risk for the technology industry is that we are now the incumbents: we have a stake in keeping things exactly as they are, and we build products for ourselves — we’re our own best customers. That, though, cedes the future to the powerless — those with nothing to lose under the current system wil…”

— Ben Thompson, stratechery.com

“Silicon Valley plan to solve poverty: 1: Invite-only event on Stanford campus 2. Palantir demo 3. Uber ride home”

— Pinboard, twitter.com

“Most of all, the June is a product built less for you, the user, and more for its own ever-impending perfection as a platform.”

— Mark Wilson, fastcodesign.com

“I slide a piece of salmon into the June, one of the most advanced ovens ever built. Loaded with a camera, temperature probe, Wi-Fi, and algorithms, it'll cost you $1,500. It required nearly $30 million in venture capital to create.”

— Mark Wilson, fastcodesign.com

“The running joke these days is that you know your startup is failing if it switches from LaCroix to Talking Rain”

— Elaine Strauss, digiday.com

“Maybe it’s time for Silicon Valley to tone things down. To admit that, no, the Valley can’t solve all human problems -- not even close -- and never will.”

— Keith Emmer, reuters.com