James B. Stewart Quotes

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

New York is the new Silicon Valley.

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

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.

And Seattle isn't really crazy anymore. It's a big dot-com city.

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

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.

Think of everything in Seattle - Microsoft, Amazon, Starbucks. Then you go down to Silicon Valley - Intel, Apple, Google, Facebook, Twitter. What does New York produce?

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

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

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.

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

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

Silicon Valley has evolved a critical mass of engineers and venture capitalists and all the support structure - the law firms, the real estate, all that - that are all actually geared toward being accepting of startups.

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

Israel has incredible entrepreneurial spirit and a deep bench of technology talent.

For a first-time entrepreneur, there's nothing better than being in Silicon Valley because there is so much going on, and there's such a large number of inventors, that even a B level idea or a C level idea could be nurtured and be given venture capital there.

Oakland's time is coming. In fact, Oakland's time is already here. Tech is coming to Oakland, and it's terribly exciting.

Some people have blithely dismissed growth in markets like China and India, saying Silicon Valley will always be the hub for tech: that everyone will come to us. Wake up: Because the numbers are showing money and talent is increasingly going elsewhere.

Boston is known for its innovation.

I didn't know anything about Silicon Valley.

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

The entire world is now a rival to Silicon Valley. No country, state, region, nor city has a lock on innovation in technology anymore.

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.