#silicon

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

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

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

#mentality #no reason #paris #real #reason

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

#companies #graduating #late #most #part

Silicon Valley is constantly saying that the government is irrelevant and powerless. But that's because most people there have never seen it get serious. ↗

— Dan Farmer

#constantly #get #government #irrelevant #most

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

#batteries #company #doing #early #ended

The chip comes from silicon foundries who have been running their plants for the past fifty years, understand mass manufacture, and are the area that is most likely to understand the volume increase problem. ↗

— Mike Marsh

#been #chip #comes #fifty #foundries