#silicon valley

Free is really, you know, the gift of Silicon Valley to the world. It's an economic force, it's a technical force. It's a deflationary force, if not handled right. It is abundance, as opposed to scarcity. ↗

— Chris Anderson

#economic #force #free #gift #handled

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 would say probably Pirates of Silicon Valley just because I'm proud of the work, playing Gates. ↗

— Anthony Michael Hall

#gates #i #just #just because #pirates

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

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

Silicon Valley is the best place to start a tech company in so many ways. ↗

— Niklas Zennstrom

#company #many #place #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