Finnish companies tend to be very traditional, not taking many risks. Silicon Valley is completely different: people here really live on the edge.
Quotes about silicon (16 Quotes)
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.
The chip comes from silicon foundries who have been running their plants for the past fifty years, understand mass manufacture, and are the area that is most likely to understand the volume increase problem.
I was in Bangalore, India, the Silicon Valley of India, when I realized that the world was flat.
If we hadn't put a man on the moon, there wouldn't be a Silicon Valley today.
My sense is that we're ready for another industrial revolution in this country. The great minds and innovators of Silicon Valley would come through China and say, The pipeline is full of ideas - there's personalized medicine, biotechnology, new forms to power ourselves, clean energy, etc., etc.
You can still strike it rich with technology. If you have a smart idea, a lot of ambition and a lot of luck, Silicon Valley is where some billionaires are going to be made.
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.
It was supposed to be a year or two just to refresh my batteries, but I moved to Silicon Valley in the early 90's, and one thing let to another, got very involved in high tech, and formed a company and it ended up doing pretty well.
Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.
The days when you needed amazing Silicon Graphics machines to run animation software are gone now.
The key here for any innovation is that there has to be a level of consistency -- in terms of academics, in terms of incentives for venture capital, and in terms of new category development. Regardless of the administration, when you see areas of the country like Silicon Valley going through roller-coaster cycles, that's what's harmful.
Free is really, you know, the gift of Silicon Valley to the world. It's an economic force, it's a technical force. It's a deflationary force, if not handled right. It is abundance, as opposed to scarcity.
I would say probably Pirates of Silicon Valley just because I'm proud of the work, playing Gates.
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Even Silicon Valley investors have put well over a $1 billion in new energy technologies.