High-Tech Industry Quotes

Israel stands proudly at the forefront of international achievement. The world's leading corporations - Google, Intel and Motorola, to name but a few - maintain research and development facilities here, and our technology start-ups continue to be acquired by the likes of AOL, eBay and IBM.

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.

I think the high-tech industry is used to developing new things very quickly. It's the Silicon Valley way of doing business: You either move very quickly and you work hard to improve your product technology, or you get destroyed by some other company.

Israel is a wonderful country, especially Tel Aviv.

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

A lot of young people just starting out unskilled, as all Americans do when they're born here, come to this country, and so the business community is for immigration. Big businesses, small businesses, high-tech, low-tech, the communities of faith, and the Republican leadership.

India should be an exporter of technology.

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

We've gone from the image of India as land of fakirs lying on beds of nails, and snake charmers with the Indian rope trick, to the image of India as a land of mathematical geniuses, computer wizards, software gurus.

I didn't know anything about Silicon Valley.

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

In 2001, we were like most high-tech companies, with one or two primary products that were really important to us.

My freshman year in college, I got a job working security. This was a high-tech building in Santa Clara, engineers coming in and out all the time.

The country that spends the most per GDP on research and development is Israel.

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

I remember talking to, 40 years ago, one of the leading people in the government who was involved in arms control, pressing for arms control measures, détente, and so on. He's very high up, and we were talking about whether arms control could succeed. And only partially as a joke he said, "Well it might succeed if the high tech industry makes more profit from arms control than it can make from weapons-related research and production. If we get to that tipping point maybe arms control will work." He was partially joking but there's a truth that lies behind it.

The San Francisco Bay Area has more VC firms and dollars invested than all East Coast cities combined.

What auto and steel is to Ohio River Valley, refineries are to the oil regions. You wouldn't tell Silicon Valley you're going to put a moratorium on high-tech.

If you go back to the '50s and '60s... there was zero tech in S.F. It was all in the Valley... and it crept northward in early 2000s.

Companies that get started and built in New York City tend to be applied technology.

Look at MIT—the smartest people in the world. They start up 50 companies a year. Only 1 makes it.

I love everyone on 'Silicon Valley.'

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

Ben Horowitz, he's the guy. He's really big into hip-hop, and he's a brainiac.

I've been impressed, obviously, with what Israel has done over the years, as it related to technology, agriculture, research in general.