Eric Yuan Quotes

I got lucky because my dad moved us to Silicon Valley before it really was known worldwide as an important tech hub.

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

You know, IBM was almost knocked out of the box by other types of computer software and manufacturing.

The City of London has never been known for understanding technology and has never matched Silicon Valley's tradition of knowledgeable investment in technology start-ups, just as the U.K. government has never matched the vast investment made by the U.S. government.

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

I'm sure that the ideas being incubated at places like Startup Village today will form the core of the technologies of tomorrow.

I've been in a room in Silicon Valley where on the wall they have 160 industries they think blockchain can disrupt. We picked six of them to focus on.

I'm a Silicon Valley guy. I just think people from Silicon Valley can do anything.

Every kid coming out of Harvard, every kid coming out of school now thinks he can be the next Mark Zuckerberg, and with these new technologies like cloud computing, he actually has a shot.

Even some of the greatest technology-led revolutions, or allegedly technology-led, really were only made possible because of trends already present.

Because I do think - not just in building AOL - but just the world in which we live is a very confusing, rapidly changing world where technology has accelerated.

Over the next 10 years, I expect many more industries to be disrupted by software, with new world-beating Silicon Valley companies doing the disruption in more cases than not.

Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world.

I often have said to people that there are really two cities in the country where the outlook is always forward-looking - there is never really a backward-looking tendency. My banking work has taken me out to Palo Alto, what is commonly called Silicon Valley. And you sense out there is always a forward-looking outlook. And New York City.

The Internet is overrated. It's much smaller an innovation than people think it is. I don't think it's changed the way anybody makes music.

So many of the things I've predicted were technologies that were just sitting right in front of us.

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

The Internet creates as well as destroys. Social networks, search advertising, and cloud computing are multibillion dollar industries that didn't exist 10 years ago. They are products of the same force that has rendered the Postal Service's core business obsolete.

Look at what Silicon Valley has done - the advance of computers.

Something new will always be the source of growth in Silicon Valley.

Silicon Valley is a mindset, not a location.

The Internet is truly God's gift to the Chinese people.

The investment we're all looking for is actually saving labor... Look at what the internet is doing to retail.

I didn't know anything about Silicon Valley.

Wealth today has been created by a world view dominated by fast-moving networks, open information, bottom-up entrepreneurialism.