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On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity. -- Adam Smith
I was in Bangalore, India, the Silicon Valley of India, when I realized that the world was flat. -- Thomas Friedman
Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space. -- Ansel Adams
An open-minded and diverse population that readily shares information, encourages experimentation, accepts failure and dispenses with formality and hierarchy is what makes Silicon Valley the successful hub that it is. -- Vivek Wadhwa
My two must-haves are my cell phone and my MacBook Pro laptop, which allows me to update my Web site from wherever I am, whether I'm in Africa or in Sun Valley skiing. -- Daryn Kagan
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. -- Elon Musk
I wish HP nothing but the best. I think HP is an icon. Those of us who had their careers in the Valley think of Dave Packard and Bill Hewlett as role models. We would love to be half as good as they were. -- Larry Ellison
I didn't know anything about Silicon Valley. -- Chris Hughes
I love the Valley. There's no attitude. -- Jeremy London
Silicon Valley is a mindset, not a location. -- Reid Hoffman
Commenced operations in the Valley of the Kings. -- Howard Carter
Sun Valley is one of my favorite spots. -- Rob Lowe
There is no fear in Silicon Valley right now, -- Bill Gurley
I'm a doofus from the Valley, a blue-collar guy. -- Adam Carolla
There's a Hidden Valley ranch party in my mouth. -- Melissa M
Bear Valley is the hidden treasure of the Sierra. -- Lloyd Bridges
We don't celebrate failure in Silicon Valley. We celebrate learning -- Reid Hoffman
Half of Silicon Valley's got a little bit of autism. -- Temple Grandin
Silicon Valley is way more correlated with Nasdaq than anyone admits. -- Bill Gurley
For Silicon Valley and its idols, innovation is the new selfishness. -- Evgeny Morozov
China is to stock fraud as Silicon Valley is to technology. -- Muddy Waters
Look at what Silicon Valley has done - the advance of computers. -- Buzz Aldrin
Something new will always be the source of growth in Silicon Valley. -- Steve Jurvetson
At the core of Silicon Valley is a passion for 'yes.' -- Steven Levy
In Delicious's case, it's a great brand that belongs in Silicon Valley. -- Chad Hurley
Silicon Valley wouldn't exist without massive government spending and in fact initiative. -- Noam Chomsky
Girls are going to school again in Swat Valley. And that is great. -- Malala Yousafzai
I've read 'Valley of the Dolls' at least four times. It's so epic! -- Ashley Madekwe
There was a lovely bit of play which set Valley Parade alight again -- Jimmy Armfield
I belonged in Idle Valley like a pearl onion on a banana split. -- Raymond Chandler
The next Google or Facebook will come from somewhere other than Silicon Valley. -- Niklas Zennstrom
Running a real business is exacting, daunting, repetitive work. Even in Silicon Valley. -- Ben Stein
...Silicon Valley's success comes from the way its companies build alliances with their employees. -- Reid Hoffman
The education needs in Silicon Valley versus rural Iowa versus Tennessee are very different. -- Andy Ogle
It's Ethan Hawke and John Travolta [in Valley of Violence]. It's awesome. They're awesome. -- Ti West
Even Silicon Valley investors have put well over a $1 billion in new energy technologies. -- Daniel Yergin
The most successful company in Silicon Valley is Apple, and they're the most secretive. -- Carol Bartz
In Silicon Valley, when you're a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong. -- Ben Horowitz
My career is pretty much over. I'm out in the Valley eating soft-boiled eggs. -- Tim Conway
Silicon Valley' has come to mean the Bay Area, not just down the Peninsula. -- Mitch Kapor
The real secret of Silicon Valley is that it's really all about the people -- Reid Hoffman
The stuff coming out of Silicon Valley is dorky. Like, it's not very sexy. -- Jason Calacanis
If you want to build a great company, get the hell out of Silicon Valley. -- Bill Gates
Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world. -- Elon Musk
It's very hard to go to Monument Valley and not think of John Ford's films. -- Janusz Kaminski
Silicon Valley is the best place to start a tech company in so many ways. -- Niklas Zennstrom
The Loire Valley is grossly underestimated. The prices are fair, and the wines are real. -- Gary Vaynerchuk
I'm a Valley Girl. You can't get me out of the Valley, I'm still here. -- Cindy Margolis
I'm a Silicon Valley guy. I just think people from Silicon Valley can do anything. -- Elon Musk
I remain committed to improving the government services to which Hudson Valley veterans are entitled. -- Sue Kelly
If we hadn't put a man on the moon, there wouldn't be a Silicon Valley today. -- John Sculley
There's no single right place to be an entrepreneur, but certainly there's something about Silicon Valley. -- Peter Thiel
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If we hadn't put a man on the moon, there wouldn't be a Silicon Valley today -- John Sculley
China should be another United States from an economic standpoint. Beijing should be another Silicon Valley. -- Marc Andreesen
Car technology needs to advance, and the best place for that to happen in is Silicon Valley. -- Jason Calacanis
The rest of the world views the USA the way Silicon Valley views Microsoft. Except with tanks. -- Brad Templeton
No place in the US better exemplifies the ethos to engineer new digital technologies than Silicon Valley -- John Maeda
We had always dwelled together, beneath a tropical sun, in the Valley of the Many Colored Grass. -- Edgar Allan Poe
I grew up in Southern California, Simi Valley. I've lived in the same house all my life. -- Jason Dolley
I would say probably Pirates of Silicon Valley just because I'm proud of the work, playing Gates. -- Anthony Michael Hall
Everyone knows that Silicon Valley is chock full of fabulous people who do good while doing well. -- Ron Gutman
I was chased through a chateau in the Loire Valley by a bunch of American school girls. -- David Hyde Pierce
For all the billions of dollars created here, Silicon Valley is remarkably stingy when it comes to giving. -- Sarah Lacy
Promoting job creation and economic growth in the Hudson Valley is one of my top priorities in Congress. -- Sue Kelly
The Battle of Koom Valley is the only one known to history where both sides ambushed each other. -- Terry Pratchett
Everyone knows that Silicon Valley is chock full of fabulous people who 'do good while doing well.' -- Ron Gutman
'Sweet Valley High' is fantastic, fabulous, a little bit campy, and - dare I say it - cinematic. -- Diablo Cody
We're phenomenally blessed in the Walla Walla Valley. We have great, complex soil that's nutrient-rich but fairly porous. -- Drew Bledsoe
Sweet Valley High' is fantastic, fabulous, a little bit campy, and - dare I say it - cinematic. -- Diablo Cody
What created Silicon Valley was a culture of openness, and there is no future to Silicon Valley without it. -- Sarah Lacy
I don't think you can look at my history and say they love me to death in Silicon Valley. -- Kara Swisher
Between Peaks There Are Always Valleys. How You Manage Your Valley Determines How Soon You Reach Your Next Peak. -- Spencer Johnson
We talk to our partners in Silicon Valley every week, so we have a real sense of what goes on. -- Peter Barris
After graduation, I was floundering in L.A., doing stand-up comedy and working in a shoe store in the Valley. -- Kevin Spacey
Silicon Valley is 130 miles from Sacramento, but it might as well be a million miles away given how it operates. -- Meg Whitman
Mozilla has one foot in the Valley, Silicon Valley product technology, and partly one foot in the social enterprise space. -- Mitchell Baker
There's a new generation of entrepreneurs in the Valley who have arrived since 2000, after the dotcom bust. They're completely fearless. -- Marc Andreessen
North Hollywood isn't actually Hollywood, it's in the San Fernando Valley... it's not the most glamorous part of L.A. -- Elizabeth McGovern
Over the years, I've spent time in Saudi Arabia, the Bekaa Valley, Afghanistan, Jordan, and Kenya, among other vacation hotspots. -- Alex Berenson
Seed investing is the status symbol of Silicon Valley. Most people don't want Ferraris, they want a winning seed investment. -- Sam Altman
A remarkable thing about the Silicon Valley culture is that its status structure is so based on technical accomplishment and prowess. -- Jaron Lanier
My relationship with Silicon Valley and the tech community historically has been really good. Many of these folks are my friends. -- Barack Obama
I was with George Washington at Valley Forge, sitting around before an attack... gimme a break. That's over 70 years ago already. -- Don Rickles
The wind bit hard at Valley Forge one Christmas. Soldiers tied rags on their feet. Red footprints wrote on the snow . . . -- Carl Sandburg
The romance of Silicon Valley was about money - excuse me, about changing the world, one million dollars at a time. -- Jean-Louis Gassee
Israel is the second Silicon Valley, and it is therefore the only other place we have chosen to expand our activities. -- Michael Moritz
The real force of Silicon Valley is the mentality, the spirit. There's no reason at all that can't be replicated in Paris. -- Xavier Niel
I got lucky because my dad moved us to Silicon Valley before it really was known worldwide as an important tech hub. -- Robert Scoble
Jean-Paul Sartre, the existentialist philosopher who celebrated the anguish of decision as a hallmark of responsibility, has no place in Silicon Valley. -- Evgeny Morozov
[Ronald Reagan] called the image of [George] Washington praying on his knees in Valley Forge "the most sublime image in American history." -- Paul Kengor
It?s a beautiful descent in a 737, into the Bitterroot Valley, following the Clark Fork River, on a perfect golden autumn day . -- Garrison Keillor
The more angels we have in Silicon Valley, the better. We are funding innovation. We are funding the next Facebook, Google, and Twitter. -- Ron Conway
If the Ivy League was the breeding ground for the elites of the American Century, Stanford is the farm system for Silicon Valley. -- Ken Auletta
There aren't many sources of money in San Diego, apart from local partnerships and local investors. It's pretty starkly polarized to Silicon Valley. -- Steve Jurvetson
One of my favorite scenes of the movie [Valley of Violence] is when Ethan Hawke is sitting at the campfire with the dog. -- Ti West
The hardest animal was the vulture. But the horses were great, the dog was great [in Valley of Violence]. It was really easy. -- Ti West
It definitely could have been a horror story [Valley of Violence], oh my God, if the dog was impossible. So could the horses. -- Ti West
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
You want failures to be small and informational. Silicon Valley does very well. It knows how to use failure as a tool for improvement. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I have no fancy living at all. Well, I have a house in Sun Valley. Five acres in the woods. I guess that's fancy. -- B. Wayne Hughes
The entire world is now a rival to Silicon Valley. No country, state, region, nor city has a lock on innovation in technology anymore. -- Fred Wilson
Hot air balloons are terrific to shoot from, although they have become very expensive, as has most lodging and food in the Napa Valley. -- Peter Menzel
In the Internet world, especially in Silicon Valley, everyone is at the ready all the time, and turnaround is relatively short, if not instant. -- Chad Hurley
The culture around here is much less cutthroat than it is in, say, Silicon Valley, or even within the non-profit culture in D.C.. -- Ethan Zuckerman
I've probably failed more often than anybody else in Silicon Valley. Those don't matter. I don't remember the failures. You remember the big successes. -- Vinod Khosla
My grandmother lives with my mother in a gorgeous house in the San Fernando Valley. I am afforded these luxuries, and I'm very young. -- Kirsten Dunst
Over the Mountains Of the Moon, Down the Valley of the Shadow, Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied,- "If you seek for Eldorado. -- Edgar Allan Poe
Labor-rich manufacturing doesn't exist anymore. Manufacturing jobs are white-collar, Silicon Valley programmers or highly-skilled technicians. They are not going to employ lots of people. -- David Brooks
O Lord! You are the guide of those who are passing through the Valley of Bewilderment. If I am a heretic, enlarge my heresy. -- Mansur Al-Hallaj
I had better cellular coverage on a ship in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea than I have in many parts of Silicon Valley. -- Roger McNamee
Silicon Valley benefits, as all of industry, from highly protectionist policy - patent policies and things like that - which come out of the government. -- Noam Chomsky
I mean, I grew up in the Valley. All my friends were white Jewish kids. So the Latino kids thought I was this white girl. -- America Ferrera
I was technically a Valley Girl, even though I absolutely dreaded being called that. I really hated the idea that I was a Valley Girl. -- Robin Wright
The goal shouldn't be to be the next Silicon Valley (there'll always only be one of those) - it's to be your own startup community. -- Alexis Ohanian
Jumpy is the most incredible animal of all time. The movie [Valley of Violence] is the tamest example of what that dog is capable of. -- Ti West
I was born in San Antonio, TX, but moved to Lakewood, CO in elementary school. Then, I moved to Valley Center, CA in high school. -- Katie Leclerc
I was technically a Valley Girl, even though I absolutely dreaded being called that. I really hated the idea that I was a Valley Girl -- Robin Wright
The toughest place to play in the SEC is LSU, Death Valley. The fans there are relentless. They don't stop at all. They keep going. -- Darren McFadden
Venture capital today is clustered in just a few locations - Silicon Valley, New York, Boston, and D.C. It's far from efficiently distributed and accessible. -- Jose Ferreira

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