#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

My friends are people who like building cool stuff. We always have this joke about people who want to just start companies without making something valuable. There's a lot of that in Silicon Valley. ↗

— Mark Zuckerberg

#always #building #companies #cool #friends

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

— Daniel Yergin

#energy #even #investors #new #over

The next Google or Facebook will come from somewhere other than Silicon Valley. ↗

— Niklas Zennstrom

#facebook #google #next #other #silicon

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

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

I have a very basic leg. But it has a silicon cover on it. I have a flat foot leg, a high heel leg and then I have a leg which, in the winter, I have to ski in and in the summer I swap it into my roller blades. ↗

— Heather Mills

#blades #cover #flat #foot #heel