Robert Scoble Quotes

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

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

The best programmers and internet entrepreneurs are in the Bay Area. Don't kid yourself about that, not even for a second.

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

New York is the new Silicon Valley.

Before I came to Silicon Valley I was in Beijing, China and I was twenty-seven. When I saw the Internet, I immediately realized that it was going to change everything.

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.

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

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

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.

I don't think you can look at my history and say they love me to death in Silicon Valley.

I didn't know anything about Silicon Valley.

We live in a dynamic time, where the rate of change and the rate of innovation are very high. It’s not equal in all segments or sectors of the economy, but we are seeing a lot of innovation in certain sectors, and I expect that to continue.

The energy in Silicon Valley is because of the very talented engineers immigrating from around the world, especially Indians and Chinese. They are the best engineers, and Japan doesn't have enough of them.

It would be idiotic to position ourselves against Silicon Valley.

There's no better place in the world for technology start-ups than Silicon Valley; there's such an incredible well of talent and capital and resources. The whole system is set up to foster the creation of new companies.

When I first came to the Bay area, I worked in Silicon Valley in the early to mid-'90s, and I think what mattered then was our ability as designers to create a vision around people's ideas.

Silicon Valley has been this global engine of innovation and economic growth over the last few decades, but a tidal wave of innovation that has been focused very much in the digital realm.

ChicagoNEXT is focused on making Chicago the best possible place for technology entrepreneurs.

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

Not everybody wants to be Mark Zuckerberg, but everybody wants to create a little piece of the American dream, the Silicon Valley version. I don't think that's a bad thing.

If the whole U.S. was like Silicon Valley, we'd be in good shape. But now, the entire U.S. is not driven by technology, is not driven by innovation.

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

A remarkable thing about the Silicon Valley culture is that its status structure is so based on technical accomplishment and prowess.