Technology Hub Quotes

To spend time in Silicon Valley in a year of political upheaval is, on one level, soothing. It is pleasant to hear talk of wearables, walled gardens, and disruptive beverages in between updates about mass deportation.

We will build the city from scratch. It will be drone-friendly and a center for the development of robotics. We want to create something different. Neom is a place for dreamers who want to create something new in the world, something extraordinary.

Silicon Valley wouldn't exist without massive government spending and in fact initiative.

For a first-time entrepreneur, there's nothing better than being in Silicon Valley because there is so much going on, and there's such a large number of inventors, that even a B level idea or a C level idea could be nurtured and be given venture capital there.

'Silicon Valley' has come to mean the Bay Area, not just down the Peninsula.

Silicon Valley is 130 miles from Sacramento, but it might as well be a million miles away given how it operates.

The amount of start-ups that are being generated from Israel, and it's such a small state, they're looking for markets to really take those businesses in scale. We really, I think, have done a good job of indicating how Iowa is a good place for that.

The place of exciting innovation - where the action is - that's Rhode Island!

I didn't know anything about Silicon Valley.

People are still very focused on the startup story: Risk-taking founders, with a bold idea, some capital and a network supportive environment, go out and take the shot on goal. But the problem is, this is no longer the truth about what makes Silicon Valley so special.

I would still rather be in Silicon Alley. I like the West Coast also, but it's sort of fragmented. You have companies in downtown San Francisco, companies in Mountain View, and people are driving between them all. It's kind of nice in New York to just jump in a cab and reach another company so easily.

The best training ground in the world is Silicon Valley and the tech space.

Silicon Valley has evolved a critical mass of engineers and venture capitalists and all the support structure - the law firms, the real estate, all that - that are all actually geared toward being accepting of startups.

My relationship with Silicon Valley and the tech community historically has been really good. Many of these folks are my friends.

Silicon Valley has been a technology capital like New York is a financial capital.

Silicon Valley's long-running track record of creating globally disruptive startups is the envy of the world.

Silicon Bayou - aka Lafayette, LA - is the best kept secret reservoir of innovation mojo in America

For Silicon Valley and its idols, innovation is the new selfishness.

I had better cellular coverage on a ship in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea than I have in many parts of Silicon Valley.

I often talk about the PayPal mafia out of San Francisco, people that were in PayPal and got out of PayPal and continue to reinvest in other start-ups and create a huge pay-it-forward type of network there.

There's a reason why Silicon Valley is the worldwide innovation center, or why this is the startup valley, because I truly believe startup companies like mine are pushing the economy forward.

The people who built Silicon Valley were engineers. They learned business, they learned a lot of different things, but they had a real belief that humans, if they worked hard with other creative, smart people, could solve most of humankind's problems. I believe that very much.

My mission is to grow business in Silicon Alley.

India's prosperity is sectioned by geography, such as in Bangalore, where the information technology industry is prominent. Because they have a conduit out of India, competing in the world by the Internet, it's not regulated in corrupt ways, and it is very prosperous.

I had always thought that Gurgaon was some village, it was only when I came here that I realized that it is nothing less than a world-class city.