Peter Barris Quotes

One of the nice things about living in Silicon Valley is that I end up at all these conferences and things, and I get to listen in on the zeitgeist.

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

The more angels we have in Silicon Valley, the better. We are funding innovation. We are funding the next Facebook, Google, and Twitter.

You know, technology CEOs like to think of themselves as rock 'n roll stars.

I was in Bangalore, India, the Silicon Valley of India, when I realized that the world was flat.

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.

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

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.

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.

Google is a place filled with open-minded, innovative people from all over the world. It's a fun place to work, and it's a place where different kinds of skills come together. As we grew from a startup, I remember our founders saying that people don't want us to change our culture, but we need to keep making it better. It's an attitude: "We are the ones we've been waiting for." Silicon Valley in general, tech in general, means using technology to solve big problems in the world.

Japan will change. Let's create a country where innovation is constantly happening, giving birth to new industries to lead the world, when I visit Silicon Valley I want to think about how we can take Silicon Valley's ways and make them work in Japan.

Silicon Valley is a great place for Bitcoin, since everyone understands computers, and there are lots of libertarians running around.

What I Iove about Y Combinator is that it is a level playing field. If you get in, you immediately become a Silicon Valley insider.

I follow cool. When I went up to see Steve Jobs, I said, 'The party's at this guy's house.'

In addition to encouraging failure, I would also encourage companies to broadly create a culture of innovation. That should mean more than just technology and invention; it should mean something millennials know well: Ingenuity.

Together, we can build a stronger, more innovative New Hampshire, where our businesses can grow, flourish, and create good jobs for our people.

You absolutely cannot be big time tech guy without attending Burning Man.

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.

Berlin is well on its way to becoming one of the most vibrant startup hubs in the world.

Cinema is always evolving.

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

The U.S. has always been a global innovation vanguard - driving advancements in computing, communication, and media to rail, automobiles, and aeronautics.

People see the speed; people see the innovation, the relentless innovation, and that's what Google is about.

Change the instruments and you will change the entire social theory that goes with them

The developers and entrepreneurs must somehow be taught a new vocabulary of values.