Silicon Valley Quotes - Page 4

• The zero-sum world [the movie The Social Network] portrayed has nothing in common with the Silicon Valley I know, but I suspect it's a pretty accurate portrayal of the dysfunctional relationships that dominate Hollywood.

  Peter Thiel

  Zero, Hollywood, Valleys

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• No place in the US better exemplifies the ethos to engineer new digital technologies than Silicon Valley

  John Maeda

  Technology, Ethos, Valleys

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• It was supposed to be a year or two just to refresh my batteries, but I moved to Silicon Valley in the early 90's, and one thing let to another, got very involved in high tech, and formed a company and it ended up doing pretty well.

  Thomas Dolby

  Technology, Years, Two

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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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• 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 the best case scenario, someone afraid to take risks. Ten years ago, if you saw a resume that had multiple jobs in ten years, you would be worried about the capability of the individual. Not so now.

  Maynard Webb

  Jobs, Men, Years

  "There’s Something Happening Here: Entrepreneurship and the Decline of Corporate Appeal" by Maynard Webb, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 26, 2011.

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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 York is certainly another. Silicon Valley really dominates. And you're seeing some stuff out of Boston and Seattle and down South.

  Eric Lefkofsky

  New York, Technology, Thinking

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• The entire world is now a rival to Silicon Valley. No country, state, region, nor city has a lock on innovation in technology anymore.

  Fred Wilson

  Country, Technology, Cities

  "New York vs. Silicon Valley? No City Has A Lock On Innovation" by Fred Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 4, 2011.

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• The next Google or Facebook will come from somewhere other than Silicon Valley.

  Niklas Zennstrom

  Google, Valleys, Next

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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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• Silicon Valley is the best place to start a tech company in so many ways.

  Niklas Zennstrom

  Valleys, Way, Best Place

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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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• 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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• I didn't know anything about Silicon Valley.

  Chris Hughes

  Valleys, Silicon, Knows

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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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• 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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• It’s not about having a Silicon Valley attitude—it’s about having an entrepreneurial attitude.  It’s about partnering with other organizations in and around your area.  It’s about thinking big with entrepreneurs that sit next to you in your coworking space.  It’s about collaborating with tech gurus, social media wizards and community leaders at cool business events.  It’s the people that make a community an entrepreneurial one—not the location—and it’s up to you to contribute.

  Brad Feld

  Attitude, Thinking, Media

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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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• ISIS is recruiting through the Internet. ISIS is using the Internet better than we are using the Internet, and it was our idea. What I wanted to do is I wanted to get our brilliant people from Silicon Valley and other places and figure out a way that ISIS cannot do what they're doing.

  Donald Trump

  Isis, Ideas, People

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• Silicon Valley companies need to be asked to bring the best and brightest, the most recent technology to the table. I was asked as a CEO. I complied happily. And they will as well. But they have not been asked. That's why it cost billions of dollars to build an [Barack] Obama website that failed because the private sector wasn't asked.

  Carly Fiorina

  Technology, Dollars, Needs

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• We don't celebrate failure in Silicon Valley. We celebrate learning

  Reid Hoffman

  Valleys, Celebrate, Silicon

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• Memory is knowledge; character is the box of values and habits in which our knowledge knocks around. People with a lot of knowledge thrown together in a box that encourages social intercourse and experimentation tend to come up with good ideas, which are the engine of change. Think of Silicon Valley in California, or Oxbridge in the United Kingdom.

  William Thorsell

  Memories, Character, Thinking

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• ...Silicon Valley's success comes from the way its companies build alliances with their employees.

  Reid Hoffman

  Valleys, Alliances, Way

  Reid Hoffman, Ben Casnocha, Chris Yeh (2014). “The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age”, p.13, Harvard Business Review Press

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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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• 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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