T. J. Miller Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

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

Silicon Valley is a mindset, not a location.

I didn't know anything about Silicon Valley.

We who work in technology have nurtured an especially rare gift: the opportunity to effect change at an unprecedented scale and rate. Technology, community, and capitalism combine to make Silicon Valley the potential epicenter of vast positive change.

To spend time in Silicon Valley in a year of political upheaval is, on one level, soothing. It is pleasant to hear talk of wearables, walled gardens, and disruptive beverages in between updates about mass deportation.

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.

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

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

I have always been very tech-focused, which you may almost say is the traditional CEO in Silicon Valley.

I hope that I have had some effect on the fact that Israel is a start-up nation.

There's a new generation of entrepreneurs in the Valley who have arrived since 2000, after the dotcom bust. They're completely fearless.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

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

In America, innovation does not just improve our lives. It is the way we make our living.

We need to unleash the entrepreneurial spirit that is alive in Colorado.

People tend to pay too little attention to history - the history of Silicon Valley and American business - and think they're the first people to come across a problem.

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

At Microsoft, we know first-hand how passionate entrepreneurs can change the world. We believe that technology can empower everyone to achieve more.

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

It seems like there's a real world for new ideas in Philly.