Quotes About Progress

We try and reflect that there's a lot of optimism, there's a lot of positive things that are happening in 'Silicon Valley'.

Unfortunately, in the race to the most douchebaggery, Silicon Valley is fast in gaining on Hollywood. That race is neck and neck.

Silicon Valley has been developing as a startup community for over 60-70 years. This notion that you can create something in two or five years is foolish.

There's no more silicon in Silicon Valley. It's all iPhone apps.

Silicon Valley's definition of luxury is a Tesla in every garage.

The future is going to happen in Toronto or Berlin or Bengaluru and not necessarily in the Valley.

Silicon Valley is the engine for wealth creation. They've displaced energy, they've displaced financial services, and if we don't start including a broader array of people in that, the same group of people is going to rise to the top.

People tend to pay too little attention to history - the history of Silicon Valley and American business - and think they're the first people to come across a problem.

Without competition, Silicon Valley will stop taking risks and will stop innovating.

More than stock prices or product launches, Silicon Valley's legacy will be defined by whether tech leaders step up to contribute to the larger American experiment.

We need to think about what Silicon Valley can contribute to the country - not just that somehow government bureaucrats should listen to our way.

When you look around Silicon Valley at new companies, there are very few ideas that are going to make a dent in the universe.

Historically, people have flocked to Silicon Valley because of the belief that that's where the latest innovation is happening. It's a snowball effect.

Baidu Research has three labs - two in Beijing that are already largely built up, and the Silicon Valley one is being built from scratch. We're hiring pretty rapidly, about one person a week, but we are about a month in, so honestly, we haven't done that much work yet.

Silicon Valley loves a good origin story.

We have a choice in Silicon Valley. We can either continue to exist as an island to ourselves, focused on wealth creation and innovation... or we can understand that we are in the middle of a software revolution and answer the nation's call to provide economic opportunity and technology to places left behind.

Silicon Valley has always been in my blood.

You have to go through those mountains and valleys - because that's what life is: soul growth.

The interstate highway system was built to get people from point A to point B as fast as possible. And they knocked down mountains and filled valleys and made everything nice and big and flat, and they bypassed every town.

The world's better off the more Silicon Valleys there are and the more scaled companies there are.

My career has been a slow burn with many peaks and valleys.

Homo Sapiens is a frontier creature. It is what we do; it defines what we are. This has been true from our very beginnings. It is the core reason our progenitors wandered forth from the first primordial valleys in search of more room, better hunting, or more fertile soil.

Football is a game of ebbs and flows, there's mountains and valleys through a full season, through a game, through a quarter, through a practice week.

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.