Valleys Quotes - Page 20

• The real secret of Silicon Valley is that it's really all about the people

  Reid Hoffman

  Real, People, Secret

  Harvard Business Review, Michael D. Watkins, Reid Hoffman, Ben Casnocha (2015). “Leadership Transitions and Team Building: Leadership Collection (2 Books)”, Harvard Business Review Press

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

  Reid Hoffman

  Alliances, Way, Employee

  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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• I'm more or less happily writing Chapter Six of The Graveyard Book. I say more or less as I'm at that place where I hope that the book knows what it's doing because right now I don't have a clue - I'm writing one scene after another like a man walking through a valley in thick fog, just able to see the path a little way ahead, but with no idea where it's actually going to lead him.

  Neil Gaiman

  Book, Writing, Men

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

  Reid Hoffman

  Celebrate, Silicon, Silicon Valley

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• There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward. And there are those who give with pain, and that pain is their baptism. And there are those who give and know not pain in giving, nor do they seek joy, nor give with mindfulness of virtue; They give as in yonder valley the myrtle breathes its fragrance into space. Through the hands of such as these God speaks, and from behind their eyes he smiles upon the earth.

  Khalil Gibran

  Pain, Eye, Hands

  Khalil Gibran, “Giving Chapter V”

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• There was a transition going on - Baghdad being the intellectual capital of the world where major advances were made in agriculture and mathematics and engineering and medicine and astronomy, and then that all sort of collapsed. And I was trying to understand how such a intellectually fertile environment can lose its compass bearing. Because I think about the creative centers today - countries, or even regions. Will Silicon Valley always be as innovative? Will the United States be innovative, or will we become complacent?

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Country, Thinking, Engineering

  Source: bookriot.com

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• Of course, the Clintons are not only corrupt but cynical as well. They accept that the progressive media, the foundations, the universities, the bureaucracies, Hollywood, and Silicon Valley honor power more than trendy left-wing politics; they well understand that their fans will, for them, make the necessary adjustments to contextualize Clinton criminality or amorality.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Media, Wings, Cynical

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I'd met Simon [Segars] for the first time in London. He struck me as a quiet, natural-born engineer and an orthodox successor [to East]. He has a home in Silicon Valley, and he said it's just a few minutes' drive away from mine.

  Masayoshi Son

  Home, London, Firsts

  Source: asia.nikkei.com

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• Because I had visited Silicon Valley, I recognized the microprocessor was going to lead the second industrial revolution. We Chinese could not miss that opportunity again - we missed the first industrial revolution already. We put our effort into trying to bring this new technology from the United States to Taiwan. That was the begining of Acer.

  Stan Shih

  Technology, Opportunity, Effort

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• Taiwan's development in the past 20 years in high tech is almost 100 percent related to Silicon Valley.

  Stan Shih

  Past, Years, Taiwan

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• Silicon Valley tends to believe in the individual who creates a small group and does something big.

  Reid Hoffman

  Believe, Groups, Doe

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I could weep for a river-valley, and I have. But for a country? Oh man, I don't know.

  Arundhati Roy

  Country, Men, Rivers

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• An old-growth forest, a mountain range or a river valley is more important and certainly more loveable than any country will ever be.

  Arundhati Roy

  Country, Mountain Ranges, Rivers

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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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, Want

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• I think the hardest questions had to do with suffering. It had to do with all of our church members and friends passing through difficult times. Sometimes it's the global climate: tsunamis, earthquakes, radiation. I think these kinds of questions are absolutely the most difficult, yet we need to be ready to respond to them because we have to be able as pastors to walk people through these valleys, these tough times in their lives.

  Max Lucado

  Thinking, Earthquakes, People

  Source: www.sermoncentral.com

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• Autism is a big continuum, going from someone who remains nonverbal, all the way up to geniuses on Silicon Valley. And some kids are visual thinkers like me. Other kids are pattern thinkers - your mathematicians, your programmers. And there are others, they are word thinkers. Uneven skills. You need to take the thing that they're good at and you need to work on developing it.

  Temple Grandin

  Kids, Skills, Autism

  Source: www.kshb.com

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• I think that's actually what's missing from government, for the most part. We've got a lot of policy people, but we have no technologists, even though technology is such a big part of our lives. It's just amazing, because even these big Silicon Valley companies, the masters of the universe or whatever, haven't engaged with Washington until recently. They're still playing catch-up.

  Edward Snowden

  Technology, Thinking, Government

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• The goal shouldn't be to be the next Silicon Valley (there'll always only be one of those) - it's to be your own startup community.

  Alexis Ohanian

  Goal, Community, Next

  Source: tech.co

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• Not being like everyone else is a great thing, but when you're in elementary school, you want people to like you, and kids that age can be so closed-minded. I mean, I went to a little Catholic school in the San Fernando Valley! My life was so different from the other kids'.

  Katy Rose

  School, Mean, Kids

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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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• 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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• I grew up in the South Wales valleys, but I think my parents realised from quite an early age that if they hadn't sent me to boarding school I would have probably gone to prison. And it cost them absolutely everything.

  Thighpaulsandra

  School, Thinking, Parent

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Hot air balloons are terrific to shoot from, although they have become very expensive, as has most lodging and food in the Napa Valley.

  Peter Menzel

  Air, Hot, Balloons

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• We find that alchemy has to do with magicians or magic and may even have roots in the Chaldean people who lived in the land that we now call Iraq.Abraham emerged and took a flock of people with him into Egypt. They were later called the Hebrews because of the valleys that they came out of. The alchemy that they saw was a transformative power within the individuals to affect the "out there" reality - and that, of course, is the basis of shamanism and is the basis for most magical and so-called Third World belief systems.

  Fred Alan Wolf

  Reality, Egypt, Land

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• Man, just believe in yourself, be able to dream, and know that there's going to be valleys and peaks. Always stay centered, and know that God is the key, the beginning and end of everything you do.

  Common

  Dream, Believe, Men

  Source: aalbc.com

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