Silicon Valley Quotes

• Silicon Valley is a mindset, not a location.

  Reid Hoffman

  Location, Valleys, Mindset

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• Silicon Valley is way more correlated with Nasdaq than anyone admits.

  Bill Gurley

  Valleys, Way, Silicon

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• At the core of Silicon Valley is a passion for 'yes.'

  Steven Levy

  Passion, Valleys, Silicon

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• The natives of Silicon Valley learned long ago that when you share your knowledge with someone else, one plus one usually equals three. You both learn each other's ideas, and you come up with new ones.

  Vivek Wadhwa

  Long Ago, Ideas, Three

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• Banks don't want certain asset classes, and that's created opportunities for private equity, hedge funds, Silicon Valley. In this case I think he was referring to some of the European banks shedding assets, and the big buyers are probably not going to be big American banks. Someone like Blackstone may have a very good chance to buy those assets, leverage them, borrow up a little bit, and do something good there.

  Jamie Dimon

  Opportunity, Thinking, Class

  "Jamie Dimon on Finance: 'Who Owns the Future?'". Interview with John Micklethwait, www.bloomberg.com. March 1, 2016.

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• Seasteaders bring a Silicon Valley sensibility to the problem of governments not innovating sufficiently. Innovators are held back and stymied by existing regulations, and we want to give them 21st century regulations on start-up governments.

  Joe Quirk

  Government, Giving, Valleys

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Running a real business is exacting, daunting, repetitive work. Even in Silicon Valley.

  Ben Stein

  Running, Real, Valleys

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• Distribution may not matter in fictional worlds, but it matters in most. The Field of Dreams conceit is especially popular in Silicon Valley, where engineers are biased toward building cool stuff rather than selling it. But customers will not come just because you build it. You have to make this happen, and it's harder than it looks.

  Peter Thiel

  Dream, World, May

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• There are three pillars, regardless of your work culture, whether you're in Silicon Valley or on Wall Street: how you look, how you speak, and how you behave. It's all three things, and nailing them makes you a contender.

  Sylvia Ann Hewlett

  Wall, Three Things, Pillars

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• A big factor is that the enthusiast camp's values are really rooted in Silicon Valley and in these supposedly new business models. But again, I think this such an interesting moment because things like the NSA revelations are really forcing people to recognize the connections between corporate and government surveillance.

  Astra Taylor

  Thinking, Nsa, Government

  Source: therumpus.net

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• think there's a culture of Silicon Valley that seems to have the attitude that you can have it both ways, that you can be an insurgent but also, ultimately, it's paid for by advertising, when in fact advertising is totally retrograde. Now that's an industry we should be disrupting, and maybe you disrupt it by funding public media. None of this is technological destiny; there are only social choices.

  Astra Taylor

  Attitude, Destiny, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The new Web is a very different thing. It's a tool for bringing together the small contributions of millions of people and making them matter. Silicon Valley consultants call it Web 2.0, as if it were a new version of some old software. But it's really a revolution.

  Lev Grossman

  People, Together, Different

  "You — Yes, You — Are TIME's Person of the Year" by Lev Grossman, content.time.com. December 25, 2006.

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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. I've been a successful Silicon Valley entrepreneur. I wouldn't touch 'visionary' with a 10-foot pole.

  Robert Metcalfe

  Successful, Feet, Entrepreneur

  "The Visionary Thing". www.wired.com. November 01, 1999.

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• Where you live matters: there’s only one MIT. And there's only one Hollywood and only one Silicon Valley. This isn't a coincidence: for whatever you're doing, there's usually only one place where the top people go. You should go there. Don’t settle for anywhere else. Meeting my heroes and learning from them gave me a huge advantage. Your heroes are part of your circle too - follow them.

  Drew Houston

  Inspirational, Hero, Circles

  Drew Houston's Commencement Address at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, news.mit.edu. June 7, 2013.

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• There is no fear in Silicon Valley right now.

  Bill Gurley

  Valleys, No Fear, Silicon

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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

  Angel, Google, Innovation

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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

  Ivy, League, Valleys

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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 they were not actually qualified to do it.

  Marc Andreessen

  Valleys, Graduates, Late

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• I didn't know anything about Silicon Valley.

  Chris Hughes

  Valleys, Silicon, Knows

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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

  Valleys, Matter, Remember

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• The real force of Silicon Valley is the mentality, the spirit. There's no reason at all that can't be replicated in Paris.

  Xavier Niel

  Real, Paris, Valleys

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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 Area. That entire brew came together in Steve Jobs.

  Erik Qualman

  Jobs, Counter Culture, Together

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• Even Silicon Valley investors have put well over a $1 billion in new energy technologies.

  Daniel Yergin

  Technology, Energy, Valleys

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• First we need to rethink the terms and recognize that we've imported this language from the technocratic class, from Silicon Valley, that talks about openness and transparency.

  Astra Taylor

  Class, Firsts, Needs

  Source: therumpus.net

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• 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 Valley today. This is not a coincidence.

  Eric Weiner

  Florence, Valleys, Looks

  "How your neighborhood coffee shop is brewing geniuses". Interview with Paul Solman, www.pbs.org. January 21, 2016.

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