#silicon valley

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

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

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

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

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

#business #create #days #exactly #garage

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

I didn't know anything about Silicon Valley. ↗

— Chris Hughes

#anything #i #know #silicon #silicon valley