Silicon Valley Quotes

• 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 Andreesen
  • Start
  • Late
  • Silicon Valley

• 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
  • People
  • Live
  • Learning

• There are a lot of billionaires in Silicon Valley, but in the end, we are all heading to the same place. If given the choice between making a lot of money or finding a way to make people live longer, what do you choose?

  

  Bill Maris
  • Money
  • Choice
  • Silicon Valley

• When it comes to technology, we celebrate the icons of Silicon Valley as iGods worth emulating. We reward them for granting us superpowers. With a smartphone in our pocket, we can transcend the bodily limits of space and time. We can send and receive, buy and sell, upload and download with a swipe of our finger.

  

  Craig Detweiler
  • Technology
  • Smart phone
  • IGods

• If you want to build a great company, get the hell out of Silicon Valley.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Company
  • Silicon Valley
  • Hell out

• Look at what Silicon Valley has done - the advance of computers.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Done
  • Computer
  • Silicon Valley

• Silicon Valley has a lot of noise, a lot of hype. People are very excited about all of the Facebook stuff, Facebook applications. It's just been a huge hype over the last year when actually... there isn't really that much value.

  

  Jawed Karim
  • Value
  • Applications
  • Silicon Valley

• The people who built Silicon Valley were engineers. They learned business, they learned a lot of different things, but they had a real belief that humans, if they worked hard with other creative, smart people, could solve most of humankind's problems. I believe that very much.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • People
  • Engineers
  • Silicon Valley

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

  

  Harper Reed
  • New York
  • Silicon Valley
  • Salaries

• Here in Silicon Valley, I have taken part in hundreds of conversations trying to convince people to dive in and become entrepreneurs. All too often, innovators with good, safe, jobs are unwilling to put their family's access to health care at risk by walking away from company-backed medical insurance.

  

  Eric Ries
  • Conversations
  • Entrepreneurs
  • Innovators

• The rest of the world views the USA the way Silicon Valley views Microsoft. Except with tanks.

  

  Brad Templeton
  • Views
  • Microsoft
  • Tanks

• 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
  • Coincidence
  • Geniuses
  • Clusters

• If you want to go and build a company that exists in Silicon Valley, then you should go and do it there. But if you want to build a company that is Australian, that represents your culture and your being, then you should do it in Sydney.

  

  Harper Reed
  • Culture
  • Company
  • Sydney

• Outsiders think of Silicon Valley as a success story, but in truth, it is a graveyard. Failure.. is Silicon Valley's greatest strength. Every failed product or enterprise is a lesson stored in the collective memory of the country. We not only don't stigmatize failure, sometime we even admire it. Venture Capitalists actually like to see a little failure in the resumes of entrepreneurs.

  

  Michael Malone
  • Failure
  • Memory
  • Silicon Valley

• There is no greater country on Earth for entrepreneurship than America. In every category, from the high-tech world of Silicon Valley, where I live, to University R&D labs, to countless Main Street small business owners, Americans are taking risks, embracing new ideas and - most importantly - creating jobs.

  

  Eric Ries
  • Business
  • America
  • Jobs