Noun
A nonmetalic element analogous to carbon. It always occurs combined in nature, and is artificially obtained in the free state, usually as a dark brown amorphous powder, or as a dark crystalline substance with a meetallic luster. Its oxide is silica, or common quartz, and in this form, or as silicates, it is, next to oxygen, the most abundant element of the earth's crust. Silicon is characteristically the element of the mineral kingdom, as carbon is of the organic world. Symbol Si. Atomic weight 28. Called also silicium.
Source: Webster's dictionaryI was in Bangalore, India, the Silicon Valley of India, when I realized that the world was flat. Thomas Friedman
When it's too easy to get money, then you get a lot of noise mixed in with the real innovation and entrepreneurship. Tough times bring out the best parts of Silicon Valley. Sergey Brin
Silicon Valley is 130 miles from Sacramento, but it might as well be a million miles away given how it operates. Meg Whitman
I would say probably Pirates of Silicon Valley just because I'm proud of the work, playing Gates. Anthony Michael Hall
The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist. McDonald's cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the designer of the F-15. And the hidden fist that keeps the world safe for Silicon Valley's technologies to flourish is called the US Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps. Thomas Friedman
Whether we are based on carbon or on silicon makes no fundamental difference we should each be treated with appropriate respect. Arthur C. Clarke