Nick Szabo

There's a strong distinction to be made between dry code smart contacts and wet code's physical law. So law is based on our minds, our wetware - it's based on analogy. The law is more flexible; software is more rigid. Various laws tend to be batched in jurisdictional silos. Software tends to be independent.

American Scientist

John T. Chambers

By exciting citizens about the new digital opportunity, breaking down silos of competing groups to form a truly open innovation ecosystem and shifting day-to-day resources to focus on big long-term investments for the future, countries can ensure that they break through and bridge the digital gap.

American Businessman

Michael Dell

I think it is going to be very difficult to be a company in silos. I think the game has changed. We won't define our success by looking at the competitors but at how satisfied are our customers, how engaged are our internal stakeholders, and how good is our product pipeline.

Eric Lefkofsky

Studying doesn't have to happen in a silo. It can be a social experience. You can engage with your friends and family to find out the answer to a tough question or have someone explain it to you. You can also study anywhere you happen to be and on any device.

Justin Simien

We get caught in our little silos and end up working against ourselves. And I think social media culture really encourages that, because you're really just shouting into a void hoping someone picks up on what you're saying.

American Director

Raney Aronson-Rath

There are no silos at 'Frontline.' Our digital team works with our filmmakers, and our filmmakers work with our digital team. They're always in touch, and they're always talking.

American Producer

Patrick Lencioni

Make sure that the people at the top are working together and there aren't divisions of labor. Don't have people working in silos; have them working across the team.

American Writer

Rod Lurie

People tend to forget about nuclear weapons. We think they are going to remain in silos for the rest of time. As long as they exist, they are going to be used.

Israeli Director

Susan Burton

It's important the sheriff and the D.A. work with the community to realize real-world solutions. If they make decisions in silos, it will fall short.

American Activist

Seth Godin

The internet was supposed to homogenize everyone by connecting us all. Instead what it's allowed is silos of interest.

Silo is commonly used in farming and agriculture-related conversations and literature.

Agricultural Usage

In addition to storage, silos are important for the fermentation process in making silage for livestock.

Fermentation Process

Silos are typically cylindrical but can also be constructed in different shapes.

Structure Shape

Silo in a business context implies lack of communication and cooperation, often viewed negatively.

Isolation Negative

Silos create invisible barriers in a workplace that can hinder team projects and overall performance.

Team Barriers

Silos are often the result of office politics where departments protect their interests.

Office Politics

Military silos are designed for maximum security due to their sensitive role in national defense.

Security Emphasis

These silos store and protect missiles, ready to be launched if necessary.

Missile Storage

Silos in military use are often camouflaged or built underground to avoid detection.

Concealed Locations

 connected to their sources, so that people and algorithms can better judge what is credible. And educators around the world are testing different techniques for finding ways to make people critical of the content they consume. All of these efforts are wonderful, but they're working in silos, and many of them are woefully underfunded.

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 from someone who's just looking at my work or buying my work and don't stop doing that but but also be a co-creator participate in bringing my work to life and for me it's really exciting that I'm here because I believe that I could have never done this within the silos of the art world I had to learn to color

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 industry for the computer manufacturer ICL everybody would have coffee together in the canteen every every day because that was where people interchanged information we were not in little silos I was a mathematician you're a scientist is an engineer it was an interesting

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 This is not for lack of information; it's a lack of integration. You know, it's a silo, people in silos. They didn't know that the same thing was happening. So one of them thought about it and said, OK, well, if this is just crystallization

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 thinking maybe I missed something, maybe the cavalry is still coming. They didn't come, so I bought bigger pillows. My grandmother could cure anything by talking the life out of it. And she said that I could make a thief in a silo laugh

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 to prepare the company to compete in a mobile-first, cloud-first world. This included changes to strategy, the organization and very importantly, the culture. Microsoft's culture at the time was one of silos and internal competition --

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 but think about the role we have to play in other people's successes, just like people do for me every single day. It's vitally important that we help each other, because society is increasingly placing people in silos

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 poverty worldwide has gone down. And that we should resist the temptation to retreat into our silos. And we should resist this upsurge in isolationism and jingoism. Which brings me to my final point.