Quotes of Silicon - somelinesforyou

“ Oh! 'tis a precious thing, when wives are dead, To find such numbers who will serve instead: And in whatever state a man be thrown, 'Tis that precisely they would wish their own. ”

- George Crabbe

“ Silicon Valley is a graveyard. Failure is Silicon Valley's greatest strength. ”

- Unknown

“ Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything, for 'Tis the only thing in this world that lasts, 'Tis the only thing worth working for, worth fighting for — worth dying for. ”

- Margaret Mitchell

“ Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round. ”

- Lewis Carroll

“ A drainless shower of light is poesy; 'tis the supreme of power; 'tis might half slumb'ring on its own right arm. ”

- John Keats

“ Besides 'tis known he could speak Greek As naturally as pigs squeak; That Latin was no more difficile That to a blackbird 'tis to whistle. ”

- Samuel Butler

“ Madam, I swear I use no art at all. That he is mad, 'tis true: 'tis true 'tis pity, And pity 'tis 'tis true — a foolish figure. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ That he is mad, 'tis true; 'tis true 'tis pity; And pity 'tis 'tis true. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Most writers steal a good thing when they can, and when 'Tis safely got 'Tis worth the winning. The worst of 't is we now and then detect em, they ever dream that we suspect em. ”

- Bryan Waller Proctor

“ Silicon Valley is like a person running around in front of a steamroller. You can outrun the steamroller on any given day. But if you ever sit down you get squashed. ”

- Bob Boschert

“ 'Tis not the meat, but 'tis the appetite makes eating a delight. ”

- Sir John Suckling

“ As the language of the face is universal, so 'tis very comprehensive; no laconism can reach it: 'Tis the short hand of the mind, and crowds a great deal in a little room. ”

- Jeremy Collier

“ In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side. ”

- B. H. Liddell Hart

“ Si vous reunissez a table une douzaine de personnes, il y a toujours une femme "qui fait la gueule", un monsieur qui s'ennuie, un homme qui parle trop et quelqu'un de distrait qui fait gaffe sur gaffe. Lorsque vous avez un medecin a votre table, pensez a mettre aupres de lui un bloc de papier et un stylo, afin qu'il puisse, entre la poire et le fromage, faire autant d'ordonnances qu'il y aura de convives… ”

- Sacha Guitry

“ They put over 100 million gates/transistors on a tiny piece of silicon. On that piece of silicon there are more lines than there are on a roadmap of London - and they work. There are very very few errors in a microprocessor. ”

- Alan Cox
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