Krist Novoselic Quotes

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

Seattle was hardly a tech magnet before Amazon, Microsoft, and then a host of once-fledgling technology firms set up operations there.

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

San Francisco is an interesting place. It's always been such a nice culturally diverse environment, which it still is, but there's a lot of money there now and a lot of dot com's so it's a little different than it used to be.

New York is the new Silicon Valley.

Seattle is a fantastic place to build a great technology-enabled consumer company.

I love San Francisco more than any other city outside of Seattle, but I've seen it go from a vibrant, creative community to a playground for tech bros.

New York has definitely turned into more of, like, a hipster place.

Every city is always changing, on its own trajectory.

The trouble with New York today is that it's lost its balance. I love the new, greener New York, but it takes all kinds of worlds to make a World.

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

In the past Berlin was much more radical and extreme and now it's becoming much more of a conventional European city.

I definitely think New York is a very, very vibrant, wonderful city, but I certainly, of course, can't help but miss a lot of the stuff that's no longer there.

When I grew up here, there was no T-Hub. Probably, the closest to T was the Tank bund.

I know that the Seattle my parents knew is not the Seattle I know and that these things exist in a state of constant flux and change. The hope is that at least some of that change can be for the better.

I am committed to ensuring San Francisco remains a center for tech and the innovation capital of the world.

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.

The old Paris is no more (the form of a city changes faster, alas! than a mortal's heart).

Cities are magical things. You know the energy in them. You have to walk the streets in any borough here and you can see between what was in this city in the 1970's and where it is today and how much more energy there is and how much more just sheer.

The way our big cities change sucks. The beauty of cities was that they were edgy, sometimes even a little dangerous. Artists, poets, and activists could come and unify and create different kinds of scenes. Not just fashion scenes, scenes that were politically active. Big cities are getting so high-end oriented, business corporate fashion, fashion not in an artistic sense but in a corporate sense. For me that edgy beauty of cities is lost, wherever you go.

Sometimes, I feel that Manhattan in particular has gotten really tame and gentrified or something.

New York has always been a city of change and a city about change, and it is a back-leading development. Nobody's going to want to come to New York if it looks like another strip mall.

In writing 'A Portrait of Athens' I have attempted - rather impressionistically - to give a panorama of its present. But I have also brought in its past because I sincerely think that there is a continuity.

I didn't know anything about Silicon Valley.

In the beginning, New York and I had kind of a love-hate relationship. It seemed so abrasive compared to Europe. But the transformation here in recent years is really something. I don't think I would have seen as much change if I'd lived in any other city in the world.