Ryan Holmes

Silicon Valley isn't the only game in town. Tech is increasingly decentralized. Around the world, new tech centers with younger companies are able to embrace a different approach to talent: recruit locally, identify homegrown prospects and, in a phrase, bring them along for the ride.

Canadian Businessman

Paul Davies

The way life manages information involves a logical structure that differs fundamentally from mere complex chemistry. Therefore chemistry alone will not explain life's origin, any more than a study of silicon, copper and plastic will explain how a computer can execute a program.

British Writer

Bill Gates

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.

American Businessman

Frances Arnold

In the universe of possibilities that exist for life, we've shown that it is a very easy possibility for life as we know it to include silicon in organic molecules. And once you can do it somewhere in the universe, it's probably being done.

American Scientist

Elon Musk

Silicon Valley has evolved a critical mass of engineers and venture capitalists and all the support structure - the law firms, the real estate, all that - that are all actually geared toward being accepting of startups.

South African Businessman

Ro Khanna

Silicon Valley needs partners. You can't do edited manufacturing just in the Valley. Why not have the DNA of manufacturing but combine it with the digital world?

American Politician

Jay Samit

Silicon Valley's long-running track record of creating globally disruptive startups is the envy of the world.

Julie Wainwright

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

American Businesswoman

Mary Lou Jepsen

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

Reid Hoffman

Silicon Valley is a mindset, not a location.

Silicon is essential in technology for its conductivity properties, enabling modern electronics.

Electronic Component

Don't confuse 'silicon' with 'silicone'; silicon is a chemical element, while silicone is a polymer.

Not Silicone

Pure silicon is rare in nature, manufactured for high-tech applications like solar panels.

Material Purity

Silicon Valley is synonymous with innovation and tech headquarters, not just a location.

Tech Hub Reference

While 'valley' suggests geography, Silicon Valley refers to the tech sector, not an actual valley.

Not Literal Valley

Silicon Valley isn't just a place but a culture of innovation, startups, and entrepreneurship.

Cultural Influence

Describing something as silicon means it contains or is made from the element silicon.

Material Composition

Silicon-based life forms are a common concept in sci-fi, imagining life with silicon as a structural backbone.

Science Fiction

 They're very useful; we've learned a lot about the Universe from them. The problem is, all the interesting physics happens in the core, and the core is hidden behind thousands of kilometers of iron and carbon and silicon. We'll never see through it, it's opaque to light.

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 feel pain the entire world uh pays attention and you have now this like people in silicon valley people in the in the top universities they are constantly thinking why are people in indiana and kentucky resentful and how much of the explanation of that is just almost the

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 And the lunar surface is rich in minerals, like silicon, aluminum, and magnesium, creating great economic potential for mining. But the biggest benefit of the moon camp may not lie on the moon but beyond it. With the nearest possibly habitable world light-years away,

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 water flows through sandstone, limestone, and basalt, picking up a microscopic compound called silicon dioxide. This silica-enriched water enters the voids inside pieces of volcanic rock, prehistoric river beds, wood and even the bones of ancient creatures.

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 The stars in those galaxies probably don't have planets around them. There's scant chance of life there -- that's because there's been no time for the nuclear fusion in stars to make silicon and carbon and iron, the building blocks of planets and of life.

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 laboratory experiments have shown some evidence that diamonds tend to grow into cubes at lower temperatures and octahedrons at higher temperatures. Trace amounts of water, silicon, germanium, or magnesium might also influence a diamond’s shape.

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 the market first as an ally rather than a competitor to silicon we can even print a low-cost prop Scot layer right on top of new silicon panels without any major changes to manufacturing installation or wiring this boosts the

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 the sequencing the genome of the bacteria that they found beginning of the first season they're finding out exactly what it's made from is it a carbon-based life-form like us is it based on silicon can interact with

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 you basically need to solve real-world AI and vision. Because we need cameras and silicon neural nets in order to have self-driving work

Elon Musk: A future...

 to solve real world ai and vision because because we we need we need cameras and silicon neural nets uh in order to have to have