#silicon

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

— Daniel Yergin

#energy #even #investors #new #over

Who do you think made the first stone spears? The Asperger guy. If you were to get rid of all the autism genetics, there would be no more Silicon Valley. ↗

— Temple Grandin

#first #genetics #get #guy #made

Over the next 10 years, I expect many more industries to be disrupted by software, with new world-beating Silicon Valley companies doing the disruption in more cases than not. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#companies #disrupted #disruption #doing #expect

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

— Jaron Lanier

#accomplishment #based #culture #prowess #remarkable

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

— John Sculley

#man #moon #put #silicon #silicon valley

Qualified software engineers, managers, marketers and salespeople in Silicon Valley can rack up dozens of high-paying, high-upside job offers any time they want, while national unemployment and underemployment is sky high. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#dozens #engineers #high #high-paying #job

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

#completely #different #edge #finnish #here

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

— Thomas Friedman

#i #india #realized #silicon #silicon valley

Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world. ↗

— Elon Musk

#business people #engineers #people #silicon #silicon valley

So a more sensible thing it seemed to me was to go to Silicon Valley and be pushing on the technology companies to accelerate the use of audio and music in computers. ↗

— Thomas Dolby

#audio #companies #computers #go #me