Patrick Collison Quotes

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.

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.

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.

The best training ground in the world is Silicon Valley and the tech space.

I really knew almost nothing about Silicon Valley. I read that Steve Jobs book and watched a bunch of documentaries, and read the book about Mark Zuckerberg. I tried to learn some stuff, but there are consultants on the Silicon Valley show that know so much about it where you can get answers. To me, it's more important to get the particulars about that type of person as opposed to the specifics of the technology world.

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

I was born in Africa. I came to California because it's really where new technologies can be brought to fruition, and I don't see a viable competitor.

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

I didn't know anything about Silicon Valley.

'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 infinite access to capital and can lose money indefinitely.

In 2016, you no longer have to be in Silicon Valley to launch a successful startup. Colorado is home to many.

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

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

New York is the new Silicon Valley.

My relationship with Silicon Valley and the tech community historically has been really good. Many of these folks are my friends.

For Silicon Valley and its idols, innovation is the new selfishness.

There is no fear in Silicon Valley right now.

Silicon Valley wouldn't exist without massive government spending and in fact initiative.

Once the Internet removes geography as a constraint, the smartest people go to the most beautiful places.

'Silicon Valley' likes being satirized. They've all been waiting for someone to come along and make fun of it.

Those in technology who can afford to stay in Silicon Valley all know it as one of the most beautiful places to live in the world, but a wariness has sunk in as folks from other walks of life are forced to leave: coffee shops are wall-to-wall with aspiring entrepreneurs, and restaurants buzz with talk of valuations and venture capital.

This is Massachusetts, we're supposed to be one of the tech centers of the world. We have MIT within walking distance of the state house.