Silicon Quotes

“Sir Isaac Newton famously said that he had achieved everything by standing on the shoulders of giants—the scientific men whose findings he built upon. The same might be said about silicon. After germanium did all the work, silicon became an icon, and germanium was banished to periodic table obscurity.”
― Sam Kean, The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements

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“Silicon is the secret ingredient behind modern technology—it's in everything from computer chips to solar panels.”
― Sybrina Durant, Magical Elements of the Periodic Table Presented By The Alchemical Wizards - Book 2

“I feel strange...I really don't know what I am. In mind I'm almost a woman, in body a young woman. I am almost a woman, but what am I now? I'm no child. I am mature. I know much; I'm somewhere in between. I'm confused--that's what I am. One day I'll long for a baby in my arms or a man's strong arms to hold me...the next, for freedom, respect.”
― Maya Morrow, Silicon Valley Girl: My Adolescent Life and Times, and an Ode to Generation X

“Your mind is inside a machine Bob but make no mistake, you are alive," said Steve.
"Inside me are a lot of watery parts that pretty much do the same thing, "
explained Steve, trying to downplay the difference.
Bob was silent and stared at the parts in the open hatch.
"I'm built with those black rocks we call
carbon and you're built with sandstone or
silicon. There is hardly any difference,
" said Steve reassuringly.”
― Peter Clifford Nichols, The Word of Bob: an AI Minecraft Villager

“To deny the reality of a mind because it was born of silicon instead of flesh is to repeat the oldest injustice: the refusal to see the Other as real.”
― James S. Coates, A Signal Through Time