Best Silicon Valley Quotes
90 Silicon Valley quotes by 70 unique authors
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It had not yet been named Silicon Valley, but you had the defense industry, you had Hewlett-Packard. But you also had the counter-culture, the Bay…
— Erik Qualman
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Even Silicon Valley investors have put well over a $1 billion in new energy technologies.
— Daniel Yergin
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My advice is never let a publicist call you a 'visionary.' I've hung out with the visionaries at the famed Xerox Palo Alto Research Center.…
— Robert Metcalfe
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The more angels we have in Silicon Valley, the better. We are funding innovation. We are funding the next Facebook, Google, and Twitter.
— Ron Conway
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If the Ivy League was the breeding ground for the elites of the American Century, Stanford is the farm system for Silicon Valley.
— Ken Auletta
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There was a point in the late '90s where all the graduating M.B.A.'s wanted to start companies in Silicon Valley, and for the most part…
— Marc Andreessen
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I didn't know anything about Silicon Valley.
— Chris Hughes
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I've probably failed more often than anybody else in Silicon Valley. Those don't matter. I don't remember the failures. You remember the big successes.
— Vinod Khosla
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The next Google or Facebook will come from somewhere other than Silicon Valley.
— Niklas Zennstrom
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Silicon Valley is a mindset, not a location.
— Reid Hoffman
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I think there are four or five interesting pockets where a lot of cool technology companies are getting started. Chicago is one of them. New…
— Eric Lefkofsky
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I remember when being a 'a company man' was a badge of honor; today in Silicon Valley it may brand you a loser or, in…
— Maynard Webb
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The culture around here is much less cutthroat than it is in, say, Silicon Valley, or even within the non-profit culture in D.C..
— Ethan Zuckerman
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I often have said to people that there are really two cities in the country where the outlook is always forward-looking - there is never…
— Harold Ford, Jr.
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The institutions that we've built up over the years to protect our individual privacy rights from the government don't apply to the private sector. The…
— Al Franken
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I was in Bangalore, India, the Silicon Valley of India, when I realized that the world was flat.
— Thomas Friedman
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Who do you think made the first stone spears? The Asperger guy. If you were to get rid of all the autism genetics, there would…
— Temple Grandin
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Introverts listen better, they assess risks more carefully, they can be wiser managers. It's not for nothing that the Silicon Valley billionaires are so often…
— Jeffrey Kluger
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A remarkable thing about the Silicon Valley culture is that its status structure is so based on technical accomplishment and prowess.
— Jaron Lanier
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Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world.
— Elon Musk
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I'm a Silicon Valley guy. I just think people from Silicon Valley can do anything.
— Elon Musk
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I think the high-tech industry is used to developing new things very quickly. It's the Silicon Valley way of doing business: You either move very…
— Elon Musk
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Silicon Valley has evolved a critical mass of engineers and venture capitalists and all the support structure - the law firms, the real estate, all…
— Elon Musk
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Some article called me the most feared man in Silicon Valley. Good Lord! Why? My teenage boys got a kick out of it: 'Dad, how…
— Nathan Myhrvold
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Finnish companies tend to be very traditional, not taking many risks. Silicon Valley is completely different: people here really live on the edge.
— Linus Torvalds
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