Current ethos in Silicon Valley is that if you build a website that people keep coming back to and is changing the lives of millions, you can eventually make money.
Silicon Valley is the best place to start a tech company in so many ways.
If you want to build a great company, get the hell out of Silicon Valley.
The real force of Silicon Valley is the mentality, the spirit. There's no reason at all that can't be replicated in Paris.
At the core of Silicon Valley is a passion for 'yes. '
So a more sensible thing it seemed to me was to go to Silicon Valley and be pushing on the technology companies to accelerate the use of audio and music in computers.
Silicon Valley, after all, feeds off the existence of computers, the internet, the IT systems, satellites, the whole of micro electronics and so on, but a lot of that comes straight out of the state sector of the economy. Silicon Valley developed, but they expanded and turned it into commercial products and so on, but the innovation is on the basis of fundamental technological development that took places in places like this [MIT] on government funding, and that continues.
If I had to pick three of my favorite magazines, they would be 'Fast Company', 'Silicon India', and 'Smithsonian. '
We who work in technology have nurtured an especially rare gift: the opportunity to effect change at an unprecedented scale and rate. Technology, community, and capitalism combine to make Silicon Valley the potential epicenter of vast positive change.
For Silicon Valley and its idols, innovation is the new selfishness.
I'm as fond of my body as anyone, but if I can be 200 with a body of silicon, I'll take it.
I'm a Silicon Valley guy. I just think people from Silicon Valley can do anything.
If the Ivy League was the breeding ground for the elites of the American Century, Stanford is the farm system for Silicon Valley.
There is no fear in Silicon Valley right now.
The future economic success of Silicon Valley will be contingent on whether we have a good quality of life. World-class workers will only want to come to a world-class living environment.
If I were starting now I would do things very differently. I didn't know anything. In Silicon Valley, you get this feeling that you have to be out here. But it's not the only place to be. If I were starting now, I would have stayed in Boston. [Silicon Valley] is a little short-term focused and that bothers me.
Half of Silicon Valley's got a little bit of autism.
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.
I hope to someday live in a world where there are lots more Silicon Valleys.
We don't celebrate failure in Silicon Valley. We celebrate learning
