#silicon

It had not yet been named Silicon Valley, but you had the defense industry, you had Hewlett-Packard. But you also had the counter-culture, the Bay Area. That entire brew came together in Steve Jobs. ↗

— Erik Qualman

#area #bay #bay area #been #brew

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

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

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

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