Great Tech Quotes

#1. Great tech opportunities happen only once.

Peter Thiel

#2. Do not presume global competitiveness from any feature of society in Silicon Valley, save those which are directly related to building great tech companies.

Anonymous

#3. I love technology. Matches, to light a fire, is really high tech. The wheel is really one of the great inventions of all time. Other than that, I am an ignoramus about technology.

William Shatner

#4. When I left Google to join Facebook, as a percentage of my team, fewer women tried to follow me. As they had been all along, the men were more interested in new and, as we say in tech, higher beta opportunities - where the risks were great but the potential rewards even greater.

Sheryl Sandberg

#5. The N.Y.C. tech scene is vibrant, and Betabeat will be a great vehicle to cover it in depth.

Jared Kushner

#6. Every Indian kid has access to MySpace and Facebook. But that doesn't mean they have access to books and great teachers. This idea about bringing digital tech into schools is great, but once again I'll say that this is not how people actually learn.

Sherman Alexie

#7. Most great companies in tech have been built by personal referrals for the first ... at least 100 employees and often many more.

Sam Altman

#8. Syn bio tech had come on stream, springing full-grown from the bench like the Incredible Hulk bursting his lab coat, a great green monster that sucked carbon dioxide from the air and sprouted wood, pissed oil, and shat diamonds.

Ken MacLeod

#9. When our eyes are set on eternity, the news that someone has come to know the Savior means a great deal more than the news of a salary raise or the prospect of getting the latest high-tech gadget.

Randy Alcorn

#10. Right now is a great time to be a woman in tech, but there's not enough women in tech,

Marissa Mayer

#11. The emergence of a hardware product from an African company marks a phase-change point for tech invention. The BRCK shows that great ideas can come from anywhere, that innovation comes from solving real problems with constrained resources.

Erik Hersman

#12. I hoping to make it [decision] sometime next week. I love the academics at Tech. I can get a great degree there in engineering. Georgia has the ability to win it all next season. I think I can play early at both schools. It's going to be tough.

Calvin Johnson

#13. I think like a Silicon Valley entrepreneur. Failure is a great teacher. At the same time, you must remember, success will never last ... Whether it's tech or fashion, it must be for the customer.

Tadashi Yanai

#14. From a high-tech point of view, an agriculture point of view, a goods-and-services point of view, a great deal of [committee Democrats] have no choice except to support allowing America access to these markets.

Charles Rangel

#15. For most Indians in America, wealth is not inherited. Neither do we make it as heads of large hedge funds and private equity funds. For us to make it to the top, we have to use our knowhow to create great new technology products and build high-tech companies.

Romesh Wadhwani

#16. There are so many things going on this week, ... It's great for Virginia Tech.

Frank Beamer

#17. One of the great things about building a tech company is the amazing people that you can hire.

Ben Horowitz

#18. An MBA is a great degree for career paths like investment banking, finance, consulting, and large companies. An MBA is not necessarily the right path for starting a tech company. You should be building a prototype, not getting an MBA in that case.

Guy Kawasaki

#19. An operating system is the great facilitator; it is the great protector; it is the great illusionist.

Subrata Dasgupta

#20. You can do great things with low-tech stuff.

Laurie Anderson

#21. Big Tech's nonchalance about copyright violation tramples over people like my wife and me, who strive to make a living in the great tradition of the creative realm.

Peter Lerangis