Has ‘Silicon Valley’ ended? The best quotes from 6 seasons of kruft
After six seasons on HBO, Silicon Valley has officially ended. Over the course of Silicon Valley, fans followed the ups and downs of startup company Pied Piper and group trying to make their company the next big thing in the tech world. Silicon Valley remains yet another critical darling with HBO.
While the ending of Silicon Valley isn’t on par with, say, Game of Thrones finish, fans of the series were still sad to see it end. What better way to honor Silicon Valley, then send it off with some of the series most inspiring quotes? Here are the Silicon Valley quotes to live your life by.
Richard Hendricks (Thomas Middleditch)
“We are in the seat of the US government, a government that was founded by people who were, at one point, ruled by kings they couldn’t overthrow. So, what did they do, right? They started over. They came here, to the New World. World 2.0, version 1776. And the way we win is by creating a new, democratic, decentralized Internet, one where the behavior of companies like this will be impossible, forever. One where it is the users, not the kings, who have sovereign control over their data. This, I promise to you: I will help you end this tyranny by building an Internet that is of the people, by the people, and for the people, so help me God.”
“You… hypocrites. You f–king hypocrites. When I wouldn’t use the fake users, you called me a pussy. When I wouldn’t lie on the stand, you called me a pussy. But now, when I’m actually doing what you’ve been wanting me to do, you quit? You’re the pussies. You are the pussies. I’m the only one that’s trying to f–king… save what we do here!”
“Face it, Jared, being too early is the same as being wrong.”
“Last night I was watching my friends here have this argument. About, you know, manipulating data And, you know, how many datas could one guy manipulate at once and, uh And I was just I was thinking. Maybe it could be another way, you know? Something that I would call, “middle-out”.”
“Look, guys, for thousands of years, guys like us have gotten the shit kicked out of us. But now, for the first time, we’re living in an era, where we can be in charge and build empires. We could be the Vikings of our day.”
Nelson “Big Head” Bighetti (Josh Brener)
“Hey, good news. They said we can each keep one of the cannonballs, so not a total loss, right?”
“Your phone has technology inside it, so you’re double-learning.”
“Yeah, turns out the guy who built this place knew exactly what he was doing, and the pool was right where it needed to be the whole time. But now I know that for sure, which feels good.”
Bertram Gilfoyle (Martin Starr)
“It’s not magic. It’s talent and sweat.”
“Why do people covet the silly pieces of green cotton paper in their wallets? It’s because we are all sheep. And we’ve mutually agreed to endow certain things with value.”
“This thing is addressing problems that don’t exist. It’s solutionism at its worst. We are dumbing down machines that are inherently superior.”
“You wanted to do something, Richard. This is something. It’s time to walk the left-hand path, Richard.”
“I entice the flesh, I don’t pay for it.”
Dinesh Chugtai (Kumail Nanjiani)
“I know all my embarrassing shit is on your phone and if you look at it, you will mock me endlessly and without mercy. But what’s also true is that you already mock me endlessly and without mercy, so I have nothing to lose and, potentially, a huge amount to gain.”
“Just cause making the box sucks doesn’t mean we have to suck at making it.”
Erlich Bachman (T.J. Miller)
“By no metric, could you possibly be considered more attractive than me.”
“Time is a sphere, and I have been reincarnated in the same time at which I exist!”
“We have to act like an animal that’s been cornered, acting erratically and blindly lashing out at anything around us.”
“You ungrateful pricks, all of you. Your tepid response to our intrepid boss makes me ill. His plan, will it work? Almost certainly not. All of you will likely look back at this time in your lives and realize you wasted a whole year with nothing to show for it. But if this company is a plane, then this is Richard’s goddamn plane, and if he wants to fly it in the side of a fucking mountain, that is his prerogative and it is our duty to climb on, strap in and have a fiery death right behind him.”
Gavin Belson (Matt Ross)
“I don’t know about you people, but I don’t want to live in a world where someone else makes the world a better place better than we do.”
“I was sitting up here feeling totally just impotent, and then you came along and exposed your underbelly, and practically begged me to plunge the knife in! I mean, I still have a deep hole to crawl out of, but this is a f–king great start.”
“Failure is growth. Failure is learning. But sometimes failure is just failure.”
Laurie Bream (Suzanne Cryer)
“Dress unattractively when you tell them. I read a study. The less sexual interest they feel for you, the less perturbing it will be. It sounds strange, but it’s credible. May I suggest the beige ensemble in which you came to work Tuesday?”
“Monica, you have certain values. And I see no reason you should not work with companies that share them. Similarly, I should work with companies that share my values.”
Donald “Jared” Dunn (Zach Woods)
“The word companion derives from the Latin word “panis” for bread, and while I can no longer digest bread, I know that you leaven my life.”
“Richard, adversity is a great teacher. Just like cigarette burns.”
“I did have to cancel a speaking engagement this afternoon, with an underprivileged middle school computer education class, but I suppose being abandoned by a role model is in itself an important life lesson.”
“People don’t wanna follow an idea, they wanna follow a leader.”
“I don’t want to count our chickens before they hatch. I mean, three percent of hatchlings are born mutated or dead, but we may have a healthy brood on our hands!”
“I simply imagine that my skeleton is me and my body is my house. That way I’m always home.”
Jian-Yang (Jimmy O. Yang)
“You know, the car was a mistake. I was driving next to a store window, and I stop and look in my reflection. I looked like an asshole.”
“Question for you. What’s better than an octopus recipe? Answer for you. Eight recipes for octopus.”
