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I've little in common with the scene in Silicon Valley and San Francisco. I'm a New Yorker. — Jon Oringer

SILICON VALLEY WAS THE BIRTHPLACE OF LORD MACHINA, — Julie Kagawa

Companies in Silicon Valley invest a lot in understanding their users and what drives user engagement. — Pierre Omidyar

Silicon Valley is 130 miles from Sacramento, but it might as well be a million miles away given how it operates. — Meg Whitman

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

Seed investing is the status symbol of Silicon Valley. Most people don't want Ferraris, they want a winning seed investment. — Sam Altman

You want failures to be small and informational. Silicon Valley does very well. It knows how to use failure as a tool for improvement. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

In Delicious's case, it's a great brand that belongs in Silicon Valley. — Chad Hurley

Silicon Valley has been a technology capital like New York is a financial capital. — Bill Maris

I didn't know anything about Silicon Valley. — Chris Hughes

Silicon Valley in the late 1990s was the closest that business has ever come to resembling a child's chemistry experiment. — Michael Lewis

Running a real business is exacting, daunting, repetitive work. Even in Silicon Valley. — Ben Stein

Engineers created the wealth. And during the 1990s Silicon Valley had created a fantastic amount of new wealth. — Michael Lewis

Look at what Silicon Valley has done - the advance of computers. — Buzz Aldrin

In Silicon Valley, when you're a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong. — Ben Horowitz

In this sense, the world of tomorrow will be more like the Silicon Valley of today: constant change and chaos. — Reid Hoffman

Everyone knows that Silicon Valley is chock full of fabulous people who 'do good while doing well.' — Ron Gutman

The most successful company in Silicon Valley is Apple, and they're the most secretive. — Carol Bartz

The rest of the world views the USA the way Silicon Valley views Microsoft. Except with tanks. — Brad Templeton

The amounts of money in Silicon Valley are staggering. — Alec Berg

If the whole U.S. was like Silicon Valley, we'd be in good shape. But now, the entire U.S. is not driven by technology, is not driven by innovation. — Peter Thiel

One of the nice things about living in Silicon Valley is that I end up at all these conferences and things, and I get to listen in on the zeitgeist. — Rick Smolan

There aren't many sources of money in San Diego, apart from local partnerships and local investors. It's pretty starkly polarized to Silicon Valley. — Steve Jurvetson

Something new will always be the source of growth in Silicon Valley. — Steve Jurvetson

There is a huge amount of wealth that's generated here in Silicon Valley. — John Morgridge

Never was a man's love of risk so beautifully amplified by his environment as Clark's was in Silicon Valley. — Michael Lewis

What I like about South Florida is there's a good quality of life here; the cost of living is much lower than Silicon Valley. — Rony Abovitz

China is to stock fraud as Silicon Valley is to technology. — Muddy Waters

I never knew Steve Jobs. I met him once, but I never knew him. But growing up in the Silicon Valley, he was the hero. He was the guy. — Jon M. Chu

Silicon Valley is to the United States what the United States is to the rest of the world. — Michael Lewis

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

Silicon Valley's long-running track record of creating globally disruptive startups is the envy of the world. — Jay Samit

Hollywood used to control the distribution; now Silicon Valley does. — Dana Brunetti

My relationship with Silicon Valley and the tech community historically has been really good. Many of these folks are my friends. — Barack Obama

more than just a corporate thriller, its about the lifestyle and culture of Silicon Valley — Patrick Krejcik

There is no fear in Silicon Valley right now, — Bill Gurley

I'm a Silicon Valley guy. I just think people from Silicon Valley can do anything. — Elon Musk

Two million people live in Silicon Valley and one million of them believe they've discovered the next big thing. — Ben Smith

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

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

For Silicon Valley and its idols, innovation is the new selfishness. — Evgeny Morozov

I got lucky because my dad moved us to Silicon Valley before it really was known worldwide as an important tech hub. — Robert Scoble

There's an adage in Silicon Valley that people who use online services are not the customers. We're the product. As — Dan Lyons

The romance of Silicon Valley was about money - excuse me, about changing the world, one million dollars at a time. — Jean-Louis Gassee

Silicon Valley is way more correlated with Nasdaq than anyone admits. — Bill Gurley

...a more open and honest appraisal of the true nature of Silicon Valley and its opportunities as well as the many problems. — David Welch

What created Silicon Valley was a culture of openness, and there is no future to Silicon Valley without it. — Sarah Lacy

I was in Bangalore, India, the Silicon Valley of India, when I realized that the world was flat. — Thomas Friedman

Half of Silicon Valley's got a little bit of autism. — Temple Grandin

At the core of Silicon Valley is a passion for 'yes.' — Steven Levy

What Musk has developed that so many of the entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley lack is a meaningful worldview. — Ashlee Vance

I had better cellular coverage on a ship in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea than I have in many parts of Silicon Valley. — Roger McNamee

Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world. — Elon Musk

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

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

In America, the glass is neither full nor empty. It is buy one, get one free. — Ali Sheikh

We don't celebrate failure in Silicon Valley. We celebrate learning — Reid Hoffman

I don't think Silicon Valley understands the power of Wikipedia, how it works, or the opportunities it represents. — Mitch Kapor

I think that's exactly what Silicon Valley was all about in those days. Let's do a startup in our parents' garage and try to create a business. — Walter Isaacson

I've been called 'paranoid,' 'schizophrenic,' 'the wild child of Silicon Valley.' — John McAfee

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

The whole Silicon Valley is oxymoronic - geeky and rich and hip. — Douglas Coupland

Israel is the second Silicon Valley, and it is therefore the only other place we have chosen to expand our activities. — Michael Moritz

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

Mozilla has one foot in the Valley, Silicon Valley product technology, and partly one foot in the social enterprise space. — Mitchell Baker

For investors, the thesis is a Silicon Valley adage: Get millions of people to use the service first, and eventually it will find a way to make money. — Anonymous

Car technology needs to advance, and the best place for that to happen in is Silicon Valley. — Jason Calacanis

I have always been very tech-focused, which you may almost say is the traditional CEO in Silicon Valley. — Michael Birch

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

I don't think you can look at my history and say they love me to death in Silicon Valley. — Kara Swisher

Silicon Valley is a mindset, not a location. — Reid Hoffman

The next Google or Facebook will come from somewhere other than Silicon Valley. — Niklas Zennstrom

If valleys are the dimples on the face of the earth, as Steven King once said, then Silicon Valley is the deepest, most sparkling dimple of them all. — Betty Dravis

China should be another United States from an economic standpoint. Beijing should be another Silicon Valley. — Marc Andreesen

We talk to our partners in Silicon Valley every week, so we have a real sense of what goes on. — Peter Barris

I'm a massive believer in brands. Silicon Valley has tried to reprogram everybody to think brands aren't valuable. Or theirs are, but yours aren't. — Tim Armstrong

'Silicon Valley' has come to mean the Bay Area, not just down the Peninsula. — Mitch Kapor

I would say probably Pirates of Silicon Valley just because I'm proud of the work, playing Gates. — Anthony Michael Hall

These days the investment bankers came to Silicon Valley. — Michael Lewis

If we hadn't put a man on the moon, there wouldn't be a Silicon Valley today. — John Sculley

The stuff coming out of Silicon Valley is dorky. Like, it's not very sexy. — Jason Calacanis

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

I've spent a good part of my life in Silicon Valley, California, and I really like that place. — Richard Li

In the Internet world, especially in Silicon Valley, everyone is at the ready all the time, and turnaround is relatively short, if not instant. — Chad Hurley

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

There's no reason why the future should happen only at Stanford, or in college, or in Silicon Valley. — Peter Thiel

The education needs in Silicon Valley versus rural Iowa versus Tennessee are very different. — Andy Ogle

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

There's no single right place to be an entrepreneur, but certainly there's something about Silicon Valley. — Peter Thiel

Founders often had to step aside to let corporate "grown-ups" raise their babies - that was just how Silicon Valley worked. — Gina Keating

A remarkable thing about the Silicon Valley culture is that its status structure is so based on technical accomplishment and prowess. — Jaron Lanier

For all the billions of dollars created here, Silicon Valley is remarkably stingy when it comes to giving. — Sarah Lacy