Silicon Quotes

[Return on investment] is essential to justify silicon usage. Stepping back and saying, how can I help my customers be more profitable is a very important game change that needs to happen. - Rajeev Madhavan

[Other players object that the EWC specification is not complete, that it omits key product categories, makes arbitrary technology choices, and represents big silicon vendors trying to bully other players into following Intel's lead.] What we have here is a group of silicon companies who want to try to force the standard to be what they are already trying to build... We don't think that's in the interest of standards process or consumer. - Greg Raleigh

[Gilberto Gil wears a sober suit and tie these days, and his dreadlocks are greying at the temples. But you soon remember that, as well as the serving culture minister of Brazil, you are in the presence of one of the biggest Latin American musicians of the 60s and 70s when you ask him about his intellectual influences and he cites Timothy Leary.] Oh, yeah! ... For example, all those guys at Silicon Valley - they're all coming basically from the psychedelic culture, you know? The brain-expanding processes of the crystal had a lot to do with the internet. - Gilberto Gil

(Mr. Johnson), like many officials in his position, have been scratching their heads as these small (wireless Internet) interests are campaigning to install wireless networks in cities throughout Silicon Valley. But we want what happens in Menlo Park to be consistent with another city. - Seth Fearey