In a sense, Silicon Valley was born out of Shockley's…

“Shockley’s demonstration of the first junction transistors at a public unveiling at the West Street auditorium.”

— Jon Gertner

“Yes, we want a Silicon Valley,” she said, “but do we really want three hundred million people who actually think for themselves?”

— Warren Berger

My sense is that we're ready for another industrial revolution in this country. The great minds and innovators of Silicon Valley would come through…

— Jon Huntsman, Jr

We need to think about what Silicon Valley can contribute to the country - not just that somehow government bureaucrats should listen to our…

— Ro Khanna

I would say Silicon Valley and New York have inflated salaries.

— Harper Reed

I'm probably the worst Silicon Valley insider ever. I don't hang out with Silicon Valley people.

— Alexis Ohanian

The point of Silicon Valley at least when I moved here was we're all trying to do stuff and none of us quite felt…

— Chamath Palihapitiya

You look around the world at geniuses, and they don't appear randomly, they appear in genius clusters. Athens in 50 BC, Florence 1500, Silicon…

— Eric Weiner

Silicon Valley is like Wall Street in that it will fill and pursue market opportunities to their logical extremes.

— Andrew Yang

Silicon Valley does not breed great technology. Instead, the smartest people from around the world tend to move to Silicon Valley.

— Patrick Collison

I think there are four or five interesting pockets where a lot of cool technology companies are getting started. Chicago is one of them.…

— Eric Lefkofsky

Autism is a big continuum, going from someone who remains nonverbal, all the way up to geniuses on Silicon Valley. And some kids are…

— Temple Grandin

The reason why Silicon Valley is a worldwide innovation center is because it is a open culture that embraces diversity. You see people from…

— Eric Yuan

Sometimes it feels hard to remember that Silicon Valley is an actual place, a collage of parched suburbs, and not just the collective noun…

— Tatiana Schlossberg

Some article called me the most feared man in Silicon Valley. Good Lord! Why? My teenage boys got a kick out of it: 'Dad,…

— Nathan Myhrvold