“Silicon Bayou - aka Lafayette, LA - is the best kept secret reservoir of innovation mojo in America” AmericaSecretInnovationSiliconReservoirsKept SecretsBayouMojoAkaLafayetteBest Kept Secrets Author:Todd Park
“To many of us now, computers, silicon chips, data processing, cybernetics, and all the other innovations of the dawning high technology age are as mystifying as the workings of the combustion engine must have been when that first Model T rattled down Main Street, U.S.A. But as surely as America's pioneer spirit made us the industrial giant of the 20th century, the same pioneer spirit today is opening up on another vast front of opportunity, the frontier of high technology.” FirstsHas BeensMadeAgeTodayAmericaSpiritOpportunityTechnologyStreetsCenturyFrontsComputerModelsInnovationOpeningDataGiantsEngines20th CenturyChipsFrontiersPioneersProcessingSiliconOpening UpCyberneticsMain StreetCombustionHigh TechnologyPioneer SpiritModel T Author:Ronald Reagan
“Swiss watchmaking and Silicon Valley is a marriage of technological innovation with watchmaking credibility. Our collaboration provides a rich host of synergies, forming a win-win partnership, and the potential for our three companies is enormous.” ThreeWinningCompanyRichInnovationEnormousCollaborationValleysHostPartnershipTechnologicalCredibilitySiliconSilicon ValleySwissWin WinSynergy Author:Jean-Claude Biver
“Japan will change. Let's create a country where innovation is constantly happening, giving birth to new industries to lead the world, when I visit Silicon Valley I want to think about how we can take Silicon Valley's ways and make them work in Japan.” ThinkingWorldWayWantGivingCountryChangeIndustryBirthHappeningsInnovationJapanValleysSiliconGiving BirthSilicon Valley Author:Shinzo Abe
“For Silicon Valley and its idols, innovation is the new selfishness.” InnovationSelfishnessValleysIdolsSiliconSilicon Valley Author:Evgeny Morozov
“Silicon Valley, after all, feeds off the existence of computers, the internet, the IT systems, satellites, the whole of micro electronics and so on, but a lot of that comes straight out of the state sector of the economy. Silicon Valley developed, but they expanded and turned it into commercial products and so on, but the innovation is on the basis of fundamental technological development that took places in places like this [MIT] on government funding, and that continues.” StatesWholeGovernmentExistenceEconomyProductsDevelopmentInternetComputerBasesInnovationFundamentalsValleysTechnologicalFundingSatellitesSiliconSilicon ValleyElectronicsMitTechnological DevelopmentGovernment Funding Author:Noam Chomsky
“The entire world is now a rival to Silicon Valley. No country, state, region, nor city has a lock on innovation in technology anymore.” WorldCountryStatesCitiesTechnologyInnovationRegionsValleysLocksRivalsSiliconSilicon Valley Author:Fred Wilson
“Steve Jobs was an iconic entrepreneur and businessman whose impact on technology was felt beyond Silicon Valley. He will be remembered for the innovation he brought to market and the inspiration he brought to the world.” WorldInspirationJobsRememberFeltChangeTechnologyPoliticianInnovationImpactEntrepreneurRememberedChanging The WorldExecutivesValleysBusinessmanIconicSiliconSilicon Valley Author:Meg Whitman
“When it’s too easy to get money, then you get a lot of noise mixed in with the real innovation and entrepreneurship. Tough times bring out the best parts of Silicon Valley.” RealEasyToughInnovationNoiseEntrepreneurshipValleysTough TimesEasy To GetSiliconGet MoneySilicon Valley Author:Sergey Brin
“The more angels we have in Silicon Valley, the better. We are funding innovation. We are funding the next Facebook, Google, and Twitter.” NextAngelInnovationValleysGoogleFundingSiliconSilicon Valley Author:Ron Conway