Inventors often don't know how to pitch their ideas. So many people in Silicon Valley want to hear you say 'disruptive,' and… — Sir Mix-a-Lot Copy Share Image
What makes Silicon Valley really work? It's a unique combination of great educational institutions - especially at Stanford - that generate engineers… — John T. Chambers Copy Share Image
Observe, orient, decide, act. It's fighter pilot terminology. If you have the faster OODA loop in a dogfight, you live. The other… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
People are still very focused on the startup story: Risk-taking founders, with a bold idea, some capital and a network supportive environment,… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
The City of London has never been known for understanding technology and has never matched Silicon Valley's tradition of knowledgeable investment in… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
“In a Silicon Valley state of mind, we care less about actively seeking out the truth than we do about engaging in… — Christian Madsbjerg Copy Share Image
These big Silicon Valley companies that are popping up are projecting growth skyrocketing in a few years. So they need a space… — James Pearse Connelly Copy Share Image
Growing up in Silicon Valley, during my time at Morgan Stanley and as a member of Stanford's Board, I've had the opportunity… — Ruth Porat Copy Share Image
“From Long Island to Silicon Valley, a fear of being perceived as weak forces men into pretending they are never afraid, lonely,… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
I think the most important thing that a company can do, not just in the customer space but the employee space, is… — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
The Silicon Valley companies are not understating that they are so politically and socially and culturally central in the world. They would… — Ramesh Srinivasan Copy Share Image
...Something we once loved, and love now, in the shape of a book. Maybe eBooks are going to take over, one day,… — Russell T Davies Copy Share Image
The institutions that we've built up over the years to protect our individual privacy rights from the government don't apply to the… — Al Franken Copy Share Image
Apple does all of its research and development in America. It has all these brilliant people sitting in Silicon Valley. But until… — Michael Porter Copy Share Image
The dissonance that I felt daily flew in the face of what Silicon Valley says about itself: that it is a meritocracy,… — Katherine Losse Copy Share Image
He’s totally different from the typical jock. He has no ego. That’s unique for someone with such accolades. His strength comes from… — Lester Hayes Copy Share Image
Silicon Valley benefits, as all of industry, from highly protectionist policy - patent policies and things like that - which come out… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
My role on 'Silicon Valley' was so small that I didn't have a lot of influence anyway in the show. There are… — Daniel Lyons Copy Share Image
“I wanted to believe that as generations turned over, those coming into economic and political power would build a different, better, more… — Anna Wiener Copy Share Image
A lot of people didn't know why I went to Cal. The Bay Area, Silicon Valley, I wanted to put myself in… — Jaylen Brown Copy Share Image
When it’s too easy to get money, then you get a lot of noise mixed in with the real innovation and entrepreneurship.… — Sergey Brin Copy Share Image
Finnish companies tend to be very traditional, not taking many risks. Silicon Valley is completely different: people here really live on the… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
America tends to assume Silicon Valley-style innovators can drive quick and transformative changes, but even Silicon Valley's would-be masters of the universe… — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
We are seeing a new wave of young biologists that are attacking old problems with new tools and fresh ideas, leading to… — Arvind Gupta Copy Share Image
I really like the 'Silicon Valley' show. It's good to do a little rib-poking and not take yourself too seriously, so I… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
I had apprehensions of playing Jobs in 'Pirates of Silicon Valley.' TNT was really excited about me taking the part, but I… — Noah Wyle Copy Share Image
Silicon Valley has been this global engine of innovation and economic growth over the last few decades, but a tidal wave of… — Bjarke Ingels Copy Share Image
The Kindle is the most successful electronic book-reading tablet so far, but that's not saying much; Silicon Valley is littered with the… — David Pogue Copy Share Image
An open-minded and diverse population that readily shares information, encourages experimentation, accepts failure and dispenses with formality and hierarchy is what makes… — Vivek Wadhwa Copy Share Image
Historically, people have flocked to Silicon Valley because of the belief that that's where the latest innovation is happening. It's a snowball… — Taavet Hinrikus Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, I live in Silicon Valley and L.A., and for selfish reasons, I'd love to have Los… — Shervin Pishevar Copy Share Image
I think the high-tech industry is used to developing new things very quickly. It's the Silicon Valley way of doing business: You… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
Silicon Valley is the engine for wealth creation. They've displaced energy, they've displaced financial services, and if we don't start including a… — Stewart Butterfield Copy Share Image
If you want to go and build a company that exists in Silicon Valley, then you should go and do it there.… — Harper Reed Copy Share Image
The pressure to take irrelevant characteristics like race and sex into account in academic science is dangerous enough. But Silicon Valley continues… — Heather Mac Donald Copy Share Image
Steve Jobs was probably mildly on the autistic spectrum. Basically, you've probably known people who were geeky and socially awkward but very… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
There is a revolution taking place in school and college campuses in India, and particularly in Kerala, much like the one that… — Pranav Mistry Copy Share Image
Silicon Valley builds its bridges on abundance. Abundant bits of information floating out there, writing great programs to process it, then giving… — Robert Kyncl Copy Share Image
The technology companies don't understand creative things at all. Silicon Valley's view of the creative process in Hollywood is a bunch of… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
There aren't many sources of money in San Diego, apart from local partnerships and local investors. It's pretty starkly polarized to Silicon… — Steve Jurvetson Copy Share Image
