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by Adam Fisher

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Whole Earth Catalog

Jamis MacNiven: We had the Whole Earth Catalog as bible, then it went electronic, The Well, and it became one of the backbone models for the internet.

Ready Player One

Ready Player One: The first T-shirt tycoon

The Time Machine

The Time Machine: Inventing the future at Xerox PARC

The Hacker Ethic

The Hacker Ethic

What Information Wants

What Information Wants: Heroes of the computer revolution

The Return of the King

The Return of the King: iCame, iSaw, iConquered

The Martian

Exhibit B: The Martian’s unlikely journey from self-published NASA fan fiction to blockbuster hit.

Profiles of the Future

John Giannandrea: I’m fond of this book by Arthur C. Clarke, Profiles of the Future. He splits the book into two sections.

Whole Earth Catalog

Alan Kay: In those days the Whole Earth Catalog, which was actually a store as well, was located right across the street from SRI. Stewart Brand: I remember walking over there thinking, This could be interesting and maybe even important.

The Last Whole Earth Catalog

PARC’s first outside visitor of note was Stewart Brand, fresh from editing and publishing The Last Whole Earth Catalog, and newly famous as a result of its countercultural success.

Preston Blair book

I started teaching myself from this Preston Blair book by animating on this machine. Blair was this great animator who did the dancing hippos for Fantasia. The book had the classic walk cycle and the run cycle and it had a striptease—all the stuff.

The Mythical Man-Month

Biggerism—I think I coined that word. It grew out of an observation that had been made by Fred Brooks in his book The Mythical Man-Month. One of the things Fred pointed out is that the second system is the hardest one.

THE HACKER ETHIC

BOOK TWO THE HACKER ETHIC We are as gods and might as well get good at it. —STEWART BRAND

Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution

Steven Levy made the argument in a popular ethnography entitled Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, and the weekend-long book party for its release was the first Hackers Conference.

Whole Earth Software Catalog

Doubleday was also doing the Whole Earth Software Catalog.

Whole Earth Catalog

Fred Davis: The Whole Earth Software Catalog would be the digital follow-on to the Whole Earth Catalog and this would be a mega-blockbuster. That was what we all hoped.

Introduction to Visual BASIC

Hank Barry: He went down and bought a book called Introduction to Visual BASIC. Napster was the first software program he ever wrote.

The Wizard of Oz

All of a sudden, everything broke open like in The Wizard of Oz. We’d been in black-and-white and then it all turned into color, and that happened in ’95.

Autobiography of a Yogi

Marc Benioff: And then we were all leaving, and on the way out they handed us a small brown box, and I received the box and I said, “This is going to be good.” Because I knew that Steve made a decision that everyone was going to get this—and so whatever this was, it was the last thing he wanted us to all think about. So I waited until I got to my car and I opened the box. And what is the box? What is in this brown box? It was a copy of Yogananda’s book. Andy Hertzfeld: They gave Autobiography of a Yogi to every attendee as they were leaving. It was kind of an interesting thing to do. Marc Benioff: And here his last message to us was: “Look inside yourself, realize yourself, look to The Autobiography of a Yogi, which is a story of self-realization.”

Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind

Dan Kottke: I was actually surprised, because Steve was much more of a fan of Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind. That, I would say, is more his favorite book.

Whole Earth Catalog

Initially it was just sort of friends of the Whole Earth Catalog.

Indirect References

Al Alcorn: Nolan had read this book about a company’s growth and he learned from this book that the team that gets you to $1 million in sales can’t get you any further. You’ve got to get pros to get any further.

Marc Porat: I wrote a book on it, all the things that this thing is supposed to do and why this computing-communication object would change the world.

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Places Referenced

Hollywood, Los Angeles, California
"Hollywood has jumped on the bandwagon, too:"
Avenue of the Americas, New York
"Twelve Hachette Book Group 1290 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10104"
Silicon Valley, California
"I grew up in what is now known as Silicon Valley. Only in retrospect does it seem like an unusual place."
New York, New York
"There I started to notice something odd: The stories about Silicon Valley emanating from the New York media world were vastly different from those stories that I had heard at sleepaway camp and in computer rooms, and then later in barrooms and at Burning Man."
Berkeley, California
"Silicon Valley is a sheltered place, but the intense vibrations emanating from Berkeley and San Francisco did penetrate."
San Francisco, California
"Silicon Valley is a sheltered place, but the intense vibrations emanating from Berkeley and San Francisco did penetrate."
Alameda, California
"Adam Fisher Alameda, California June 2018"
downtown Palo Alto, Palo Alto, California, United States
"His company was called the Federal Telegraph Company, and there is a bronze plaque in downtown Palo Alto where his lab was."
California, United States
"Scott Hassan: Back in the 1870s, California, for some reason, decided to enact a law that prohibits employers from suing former employees for going on to a competing company."
Spain, Europe
"Brad Handler: The reason goes back to the Spanish control of California—through Mexico. The law in Spain, through Mexico, to the California territory did not allow what we now call 'covenants not to compete."
Mexico City, Mexico
"Brad Handler: The reason goes back to the Spanish control of California—through Mexico. The law in Spain, through Mexico, to the California territory did not allow what we now call 'covenants not to compete."
Stanford, California
"Ron Johnson: There’s the Bay on the east and the foothills on the west, and they’re about five miles apart, and the entire Valley kind of runs from Stanford to the south toward Cupertino, and to the north toward San Francisco."
Berkeley, California
"Steve Jobs: You also had Stanford and Berkeley, two awesome universities drawing smart people from all over the world and depositing them in this clean, sunny, nice place where there’s a whole bunch of other smart people and pretty good food."
Bay Area, California
"Jamis MacNiven: The first gold rush: That’s what launched San Francisco. It was a sleepy little town of twelve hundred, and then three years later there’s three hundred thousand people in the Bay Area."
Silicon Valley, California
"Silicon Valley, Explained: The story of the past, as told by the people of the future"
Palo Alto, California
"The Time Machine: Inventing the future at Xerox PARC"
Cupertino, California
"Ron Johnson: There’s the Bay on the east and the foothills on the west, and they’re about five miles apart, and the entire Valley kind of runs from Stanford to the south toward Cupertino, and to the north toward San Francisco."
Silicon Valley, California
"Doug Engelbart was the first to actually build a computer that might seem familiar to us, today. He came to Silicon Valley after a stint in the Navy as a radar technician during World War Two."
America, United States
"The computer then (and, in postwar America, there was only one computer) was used to calculate artillery tables."
Berkeley, California
"I got accepted to graduate school at Berkeley, because they were building a computer there."
Stanford Research Institute, Menlo Park, California
"I finally got my PhD and was teaching and applied to the Stanford Research Institute, thinking if there was anyplace I could explore this augmenting idea it was there."
Brooks Hall, San Francisco, California
"The NLS debuted at the national computer conference at Brooks Hall in San Francisco’s Civic Center."
Civic Center, San Francisco, California
"The NLS debuted at the national computer conference at Brooks Hall in San Francisco’s Civic Center."
Skyline Boulevard, Menlo Park, California
"They set up a microwave link: two transmitters on the top of the building at SRI, receiver/transmitters up on Skyline Boulevard on a truck, and two receivers at the Civic Center."
University Avenue, Palo Alto, California
"In that whole area—University Avenue in Palo Alto and then El Camino going all the way into Menlo Park—the counterculture was going on."
El Camino, Menlo Park, California
"In that whole area—University Avenue in Palo Alto and then El Camino going all the way into Menlo Park—the counterculture was going on."
Washington, D.C., United States
"His manager, early in the NASA support, came to see me at my office in Washington and he said, "I want to talk to you about Doug. Why are you funding him?"
Japan, Asia
"Nolan Bushnell: We didn’t realize that Japan was a closed market and so we were in violation of all kinds of rules and regulations of the Japanese, and they were starting to give us a real bad time."
Rochester, New York, United States
"Xerox is starting this new lab and it’s a long way away from Rochester, and the charter is to invent ‘the office of the future.’"
Arastradero Road, Palo Alto, California, United States
"I remember we used to ride our bikes along Arastradero Road over to Alpine Road and go to the Alpine Inn at lunchtime."
Alpine Road, Palo Alto, California, United States
"I remember we used to ride our bikes along Arastradero Road over to Alpine Road and go to the Alpine Inn at lunchtime."
Alpine Inn, Palo Alto, California, United States
"I remember we used to ride our bikes along Arastradero Road over to Alpine Road and go to the Alpine Inn at lunchtime."
Western New York, New York, United States
"Corporate Xerox was three-piece button-down suits—businessmen in Western New York State."
California, United States
"And it was California, so we rode bicycles."
Disneyland, Anaheim, California
"Manny Girard from Warner said that the chairman, Steve Ross, had been with his kids to Disneyland and played Atari games for a full afternoon."
New York, New York
"After we land in New York we get picked up by a limousine and swept off to the Waldorf Towers."
Waldorf Towers, New York, New York
"and swept off to the Waldorf Towers: not just the Waldorf, the Waldorf Towers! It was a nine-room suite that had a pool table and a grand piano."
Grass Valley, California
"Al Alcorn: I would fly Nolan and the guys back to Grass Valley quite often."
Santa Cruz, California
"the office was too noisy or whatever, and so they had to have a facility over at Santa Cruz or something."
Mount Olympus, Greece
"Was Apple’s visit to PARC the Promethean moment, where Steve Jobs stole the graphical user interface from Mount Olympus in order to give it to us mere mortals?"
Seattle, Washington
"In February of ’81 I drove my car up to Seattle and started working right away."
Billionaires’ Row, Lake Washington
"He took me over to his mansion there on Billionaires’ Row on Lake Washington."
Silicon Valley, California
"By the mideighties, the technologists who were creating the future in Silicon Valley started to see themselves as more than simply engineers."
Xerox PARC, Palo Alto, California
"Alvy Ray Smith and his midnight crew at Xerox PARC."
Stanford, California
"When I first started writing about technology, I did a story for Rolling Stone about hackers at Stanford."
Sausalito, California
"Andy Hertzfeld: So I got a phone call from Stewart Brand, and once a week for seven weeks we drove up to Sausalito."
Fort Cronkhite, Sausalito, California
"Kevin Kelly: We had the conference at Fort Cronkhite in southern Marin."
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
"before I went to do the Atari Cambridge thing."
Stanford, California
"Bear in mind that I had seen people playing Spacewar as early as 1962 in the computer labs at Stanford."
Silicon Valley, California
"In the wake of the young engineers who were drawn to Silicon Valley to work at the old-school electronics shops (like Ampex and Hewlett-Packard) and in the newfangled semiconductor foundries (Fairchild and Intel)..."
Silicon Valley, California
"The new new thing—that wasn’t Virtual reality is Silicon Valley’s next new thing."
Palo Alto, California
"In the early seventies the company had decided to build a research and development lab in the heart of the Valley: the Palo Alto Research Center—also known as Xerox PARC."
Palo Alto, California
"I had already been working on virtual reality stuff in garages in Palo Alto before I went to do the Atari Cambridge thing."
Panama City, Panama
"We used to sit around and talk about how this was what it felt like to be with Balboa in Panama or something. You know: the first guys ashore, the first Europeans ashore."
Sun Valley, Idaho, United States
"I climbed up into this G2 and they said, 'We hope you don't mind but we are going to have to stop in Sun Valley and pick up another guest.' Clint Eastwood!"
Sunnyvale, California, United States
"Al Alcorn: We moved to a brand-new facility out in Sunnyvale next to Lockheed."
NASA Ames, Moffett Field, California, United States
"Scott Fisher, who was part of the proto-VR scene at Atari, went on to NASA Ames and really put the first systems together."
Kathmandu, Nepal
"the thrill is probably closest to visiting a really weird temple in Kathmandu."
Amsterdam, Netherlands
"Oh, I am supercool. I publish the underground magazine from Amsterdam and I know Tim Leary."
Stonehenge, England
"We made a tiny virtual Stonehenge in honor of their movie!"
South of France, France
"And while Jean-Louis Gassée did his French thing and went off for a two‐week summer vacation on the beach in the south of France, Bill just released it."
Michigan, United States
"Tony Fadell: I had my own start-up in Michigan doing educational software and getting frustrated being a big fish in a little pond."
San Francisco, California
"Megan left Magic and went to San Francisco and founded PlanetOut, the first online community for lesbians."
United States of America
"It became very successful and of course she ended up as the CTO of the United States of America. Not bad!"
Long Island, New York, United States
"The journey first took Smith to a research lab in Long Island, where he met his future partner in Pixar, the like-minded Ed Catmull."
San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
"Then, in 1979, the two boomeranged back to the Bay Area where they found new patrons: The first was George Lucas, who was in the process of finishing The Empire Strikes Back."
Utah, United States
"We knew there was one was being built in Utah, so we went there and they looked at us, a couple of hippie freaks."
San Anselmo, California, United States
"Just after Labor Day 1980, I show up at our office, which was not much of an office for a computer research group. It was in a renovated Laundromat in San Anselmo that George Lucas owned."
San Rafael, California, United States
"So I went over and talked to Steve, and then I guess the next week or two weeks later Steve and I took a limo together up to San Rafael."
Vietnam, Southeast Asia
"He had this school funded by government money for Vietnam vets returning from Vietnam."
Silicon Valley, California
"The internet is almost as old as Silicon Valley itself, but before the browser was invented, the Valley took the ’net for granted."
Southern California, United States
"Today’s internet started with the ARPANET, and the ARPANET started with two nodes, and one of them was in Southern California and the other one was at Menlo Park in Doug Engelbart’s Augment project."
Menlo Park, California
"Today’s internet started with the ARPANET, and the ARPANET started with two nodes, and one of them was in Southern California and the other one was at Menlo Park in Doug Engelbart’s Augment project."
Palo Alto, California
"So it was either East Coast or West Coast. So I came out to Palo Alto and I went to work at a small networking company in Palo Alto called EIT."
Berkeley, California
"Jamie Zawinski: When I decided to take the job at Netscape, I thought I’d been working really hard. ... I was living in Berkeley and commuting to Mountain View."
Mountain View, California
"Jamie Zawinski: When I decided to take the job at Netscape, I thought I’d been working really hard. ... I was living in Berkeley and commuting to Mountain View."
California, United States
"A week later we’re in California driving down 101. We saw Oracle, Sun, SGI, and I was like, “How come no one told me about this place before? This is awesome!”"
Stanford, California
"At the end of ’93 I was just finishing my twelfth year after founding and starting Silicon Graphics with a group of my graduate students from Stanford."
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
"Jim Clark: It had the tallest mast in the world—until John Williams, this real estate guy in Atlanta, decided he was going to build a bigger one."
Geneva, Switzerland
"Louis Rossetto: It was only in the second issue that we had a small news item in the front talking about Tim Berners-Lee in Geneva. That was the first mention of the web in our magazine. But not the last. Then it became something we were paying attention to."
Stanford, California
"…an impresario businessman who in the thesis he did at Stanford came up with the first use of the term “information economy.”"
Stanford, California
"Jim Clark: I was fired from NYIT, which led to my going to Stanford."
Berkeley, California
"I was working at Berkeley in the AI group there, and somehow we got an invite."
Japan, Asia
"Tony Fadell: Japan was it for electronics in the early nineties. Even Apple could not make small stuff back then. And Mitsubishi Electric was a partner of General Magic’s."
Kansas City, Missouri, United States
"The first night we were there, we got together for pizza with the entire group of guys that ended up founding the company. Even Lou Montulli came in from Kansas."
Silicon Valley, California
"Chances are that you’ve never heard of General Magic, but in Silicon Valley the company is the stuff of legend."
Silicon Valley, California
"Pixar is not a Silicon Valley company, as its headquarters have never been in the Valley proper—but its roots lead directly back to Xerox PARC."
Silicon Valley, California
"The solution? An inspired bit of what Silicon Valley likes to call “social engineering.”"
Palo Alto, California
"Pixar is not a Silicon Valley company, as its headquarters have never been in the Valley proper—but its roots lead directly back to Xerox PARC."
Mountain View, California
"Michael Stern: We had a building right on the Mountain View–Palo Alto border. That building had been empty for ten years, and it had a pack of feral dogs living in the basement."
2 South Park, San Francisco, California
"Justin Hall: I went to visit the Wired magazine offices at 2 South Park and it was awesome. You know, just people with tattoos and long hair and earplugs. Like plugs in their ears, not like for sound but for aesthetics. I had been to Grateful Dead shows and I had been to rock concerts and I had been to all kinds of stuff, but walking into the Wired office you had the sense that all these different subcultures were converging."
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois
"Brian Behlendorf: At Wired in the summer of ’93 I was setting up a website, but I was also fixing bugs, I was adding features, and sending them upstream over this e-mail list to the kids at the University of Illinois building, this along with everyone else, the other users, and we were trading these fixes like baseball cards. This was kind of like the Brownian motion of how technology improvement took place in the early days of the web."
Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
"Howard Rheingold: Julie Petersen was the one who found Justin. She said, “Hey, I know you wanted to have a nineteen-year-old around. There’s this guy at Swarthmore whose site is getting more traffic than Wired does!”"
New York, New York
"Steven Johnson: I had founded Feed in New York with some friends in May of ’95. We were the first digital-only magazine. We were coming out of this academic- and pop-culturally aware, somewhat left-y zine culture. And then Suck appeared."
Stanford, California
"Jonathan Steuer: I was the nerd getting a virtual reality PhD at Stanford. What pulled me over to Wired to start HotWired was the data piece. To get interesting data about how people use media and new technologies, you have to pay college sophomores to do weird stuff for you."
Washington State, United States
"Up in Washington State, Amazon sold books."
Silicon Valley, California
"But down in Silicon Valley, something stranger and more surprising was being sold."
Bascom Avenue, San Jose
"Mary Lou Song: In 1996 I had just graduated from Stanford and I met Jeff and Pierre. It was just the two of them in this teeny-tiny office on Bascom Avenue in San Jose."
Vermont, United States
"Jim Griffith: I remember the day I started using eBay, it was May 10, 1996. I was living in Vermont at the time, rebuilding computers and selling them locally to people who wanted to get online, for a couple hundred bucks."
France, Europe
"Mary Lou Song: Okay, so this is the real Pez story that I was told. That at the time that Pierre was thinking about all of this, he and Pam were in France driving through the French countryside. They stopped at a French country store, where she found French Pez, and she scooped it up."
Caribbean, West Indies
"…and Mike for the first time in three years took a vacation. He went off to the Caribbean somewhere and he was sort of out of touch for a week, and that was the week the system went down."
Washington, D.C., United States
"Mark Pincus: Sean Parker came and worked for Freeloader in the summer of ’96 when he was fourteen. We were the only internet company in DC, and Freeloader was, for a minute, the first viral phenomenon on the internet."
San Mateo, California, United States
"Ali Aydar: It’s just a little four-story building in downtown San Mateo."
Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
"So here’s the deal, here’s how Shawn fundamentally came up with the concept. So he’s in his dorm room at Northeastern University in 1998."
Northern California, United States
"Sean Parker: Shawn Fanning and I moved out to Northern California."
San Mateo County, California
"Sean Parker: The San Mateo County police department had their motorcycle squad there, there were helicopters swirling and news crews. It was covered on MTV and a lot of other media outlets live."
Silicon Valley, California
"Sean Parker: Hank Barry was this copyright attorney from Silicon Valley."
Bay Area, California
"engulfing the Bay Area at the start of the new century."
San Francisco, California
"flowed to its most exciting outpost—San Francisco, the unofficial headquarters of the dawning web."
Silicon Valley, California
"it didn’t make much sense to the generation of hardware engineers that had actually put the silicon in Silicon Valley, but the newcomers were having a lot of fun and billions were pouring in."
Woodside, California
"In 1991 I opened a restaurant in Woodside, Buck’s, that has become pretty well known."
South Park, San Francisco, California
"the dot-com scene was clustered around South Park, a seedy neighborhood park in San Francisco’s industrial South of Market district."
South of Market, San Francisco, California
"in San Francisco’s industrial South of Market district."
Hangar One, Moffett Field, Mountain View, California
"Draper Fisher Jurvetson once rented one of the biggest buildings in the world, Hangar One at Moffett Field—it was where the USS Macon zeppelin was—and filled it with amusement park rides."
Chicago, Illinois
"I was a partner of a venture firm based in Chicago, and I believed the internet was going to change the world. The other partners told me that this was just another wave of technology and it soon would be gone. And I said, 'I disagree. Bye-bye. I’m going out to Silicon Valley."
Los Angeles, California
"Jordan Ritter: I was a paid hacker. I lived in downtown Boston, which was the center of hacking in the United States at the time: It wasn’t New York, it wasn’t LA, it wasn’t even Silicon Valley."
San Francisco, California
"Mark Pincus: We got acquired just as we were moving to San Francisco. We felt like San Francisco was the Motor City of the internet."
Boston, Massachusetts
"Jordan Ritter: I was a paid hacker. I lived in downtown Boston, which was the center of hacking in the United States at the time: It wasn’t New York, it wasn’t LA, it wasn’t even Silicon Valley. Boston was the seat of it, and I was in the middle of that."
Canada
"In fact, “Canada” was the code word for Microsoft, because it was big and up north, right?"
Silicon Valley, California
"In the late nineties dot-com hype and hysteria overtook Silicon Valley and the nation."
Palo Alto, California
"Ali Aydar: So we met in a restaurant in downtown Palo Alto."
Santa Clara, California, United States
"There’s an old Silicon Valley lifestyle that comes off of the old NASA base in Santa Clara that was confused by the dot-com thing."
Mission District, San Francisco, California
"I felt that there were about six people that I knew who were interested in doing anything in the consumer internet, and we all kind of went to the same two coffee shops in the Mission."
Las Vegas, Nevada
"There was a guy—the name of the company was Pixelon—he raised fifteen, eighteen million dollars, had no product, went to Las Vegas, hired the Who and, I think, Kiss."
Europe
"When the towers fell, my boyfriend—who’s now my husband—and I were in Europe for a month, traveling around."
Utah, United States
"We ended up leaving because my husband got a job in Utah. We were like, “Oh God, we don’t want to go to Utah, that sounds horrible!”"
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
"Scott Marlette: We launched it at Harvard and Stanford first, because that’s where our friends were."
Stanford University, Stanford, California
"Scott Marlette: We launched it at Harvard and Stanford first, because that’s where our friends were."
East Coast, United States
"Ruchi Sanghvi: Mark was on his very first press tour on the East Coast, and the rest of us were in the Palo Alto office dealing with this and looking at these logs and seeing the engagement and trying to communicate that 'It’s actually working!"
Palo Alto, California
"Ruchi Sanghvi: Mark was on his very first press tour on the East Coast, and the rest of us were in the Palo Alto office dealing with this and looking at these logs and seeing the engagement and trying to communicate that 'It’s actually working!"
Canada
"All the interesting work was either in Finland or in Japan or in Canada."
United States
"There was nothing in the US, much less in Silicon Valley."
Moscone Center, San Francisco, California
"Now right before these phones go to Moscone Center, it’s time to flash that new software that has all the fixes on them, right?"
Silicon Valley, California
"Guy Bar-Nahum: Apple is the most nonweb company in Silicon Valley. They are very product-centric in their DNA. It was really a mistake, almost."
Rodin Sculpture Garden, Stanford, California
"Ron Johnson: The Rodin Sculpture Garden is a very peaceful place. It’s one of my favorite places to go sit at Stanford and they had transformed it into almost like a nightclub. It was just really a lovely place to be. It was just this beautiful, beautiful setting, and the temperature is coming down, but there’s a warmth and a freshness to the evening, and everyone just didn’t want to leave."
Stanford, California
"Ron Johnson: It’s one of my favorite places to go sit at Stanford and they had transformed it into almost like a nightclub."
India, South Asia
"Marc Benioff: And if you look back at the history of Steve—that early trip where he went to India to the ashram of his maharishi."
Santa Clara, California, United States
"Silicon Valley was Santa Clara and Sunnyvale, until it became Palo Alto, and then nobody lived in Menlo Park until they did."
Sunnyvale, California, United States
"Silicon Valley was Santa Clara and Sunnyvale, until it became Palo Alto, and then nobody lived in Menlo Park until they did."
Redwood City, California, United States
"Redwood City was a place that basically was working-class until now—in some parts of Redwood City you can’t afford it."
Richmond, California, United States
"spreading up to Mill Valley, across to Richmond, down to Oakland and Berkeley, and then down through Fremont and Hayward and then back down to San Jose."
Fremont, California, United States
"spreading up to Mill Valley, across to Richmond, down to Oakland and Berkeley, and then down through Fremont and Hayward and then back down to San Jose."
San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
"So the entire San Francisco Bay Area would be Silicon Valley."
Silicon Valley, California
"Doug Engelbart: Silicon Valley’s original visionary and the inventor of the modern “interactive” style of computing—not to mention the mouse"
Stanford, California
"I was in the middle of Mountain View the other day, astonished at how this suburban town, where graduate students at Stanford used to live in funky apartments, is now this booming city!"
Berkeley, California
"spreading up to Mill Valley, across to Richmond, down to Oakland and Berkeley, and then down through Fremont and Hayward and then back down to San Jose."
Japan, Asia
"All the interesting work was either in Finland or in Japan or in Canada."
Brooklyn, New York
"Oakland was too dangerous to even contemplate going into, and now it’s the new Brooklyn."
Silicon Valley, California
"But all of the technical advancements around phones were happening somewhere other than Silicon Valley. All the interesting work was either in Finland or in Japan or in Canada. There was nothing in the US, much less in Silicon Valley."
Palo Alto, California
"Silicon Valley was Santa Clara and Sunnyvale, until it became Palo Alto, and then nobody lived in Menlo Park until they did."
Mountain View, California
"And Mountain View was a place you went to get some Asian food, until it wasn’t."
Menlo Park, California
"Silicon Valley was Santa Clara and Sunnyvale, until it became Palo Alto, and then nobody lived in Menlo Park until they did."
Finland, Europe
"All the interesting work was either in Finland or in Japan or in Canada."
Oakland, California
"Oakland was too dangerous to even contemplate going into, and now it’s the new Brooklyn."
Mill Valley, California
"spreading up to Mill Valley, across to Richmond, down to Oakland and Berkeley, and then down through Fremont and Hayward and then back down to San Jose."
Hayward, California
"spreading up to Mill Valley, across to Richmond, down to Oakland and Berkeley, and then down through Fremont and Hayward and then back down to San Jose."
San Jose, California
"spreading up to Mill Valley, across to Richmond, down to Oakland and Berkeley, and then down through Fremont and Hayward and then back down to San Jose."
Silicon Valley, California
"Nolan Bushnell: the maverick man-child who founded Atari, mentored Steve Jobs, invented the video game business, and pushed Silicon Valley into the popular culture"
India, South Asia
"Steve Jobs: a native son who made a pilgrimage to India seeking enlightenment as a young hippie, only to find that his true calling was the computer business"
America, United States
"This is the only place in America where rock and roll really happened, right?"
Stanford, California
"You also had Stanford and Berkeley, two awesome universities drawing smart people from all over the world and depositing them in this clean, sunny, nice place where there’s a whole bunch of other smart people and pretty good food"
Berkeley, California
"You also had Stanford and Berkeley, two awesome universities drawing smart people from all over the world and depositing them in this clean, sunny, nice place where there’s a whole bunch of other smart people and pretty good food"
Silicon Valley, California
"In Silicon Valley there are two really common sets of values."
Silicon Valley, California
"The Hackers Conference, which was first held in 1984, is where Silicon Valley technical types started to recognize themselves as a culture"
Silicon Valley, California
"Stewart Brand: the Zelig Silicon Valley avant-gardist"
Silicon Valley, California
"the cofounders of Wired magazine who captured and popularized Silicon Valley’s distinctive voice and point of view"
Silicon Valley, California
"Sean Parker: one of a long line of bad-boy Silicon Valley entrepreneurs—but the first to destroy a traditional industry"
California, United States
"Mark Zuckerberg: the cofounder of Facebook who came to California as a teenager with little more than an idea"
Silicon Valley, California
"quickly rose to become Silicon Valley’s most powerful man"
Silicon Valley, California
"What’s different about Silicon Valley are those people who are driven by the creation. —Ev Williams"
Silicon Valley, California
"Very important and extremely busy people throughout Silicon Valley not only made time for me but also spoke with remarkable candor—and it happened time and time again."
Alameda, California
"Adam Fisher lives a quiet life in Alameda, a small island near the center of the greater Bay Area."
Bay Area, California
"Adam Fisher lives a quiet life in Alameda, a small island near the center of the greater Bay Area."
Silicon Valley, California
"I’ve got audio clips, rare photos, outtakes, and other neat Silicon Valley stuff to share."
Columbia University, New York City, New York, United States
"I was at Columbia in ’67, ’68, ’69, and ’71, and of those four years in college, two of them were wiped out by eruptions in the spring."
Silicon Valley, California
"Howard Warshaw: the creative force behind Silicon Valley’s biggest bomb, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, a game that will forever live in infamy"
Wall Street, Los Angeles, California
"I mean you can be on Wall Street and just transact."
New York, New York
"it took a writer from New York City to realize that this new class of creatives added up to a bona fide culture complete with its own lore, jokes, and ethic."
New York, New York
"We needed this video projector, and I think that year we rented it from some outfit in New York."
New York, New York
"and that was my entry into the New York avant-garde art scene."
New York, New York
"He had this school funded by government money for Vietnam vets returning from Vietnam. Alvy Ray Smith: New York Tech, or the “New York Institute of Technology,” as they are very careful to say these days."
New York, New York
"Jordan Ritter: I was a paid hacker. I lived in downtown Boston, which was the center of hacking in the United States at the time: It wasn’t New York, it wasn’t LA, it wasn’t even Silicon Valley."
San Francisco, California
"Ron Johnson: There’s the Bay on the east and the foothills on the west, and they’re about five miles apart, and the entire Valley kind of runs from Stanford to the south toward Cupertino, and to the north toward San Francisco."
San Francisco, California
"In San Francisco, I’ve never seen skyscrapers go up so fast."
London, England
"In London, which was our last stop, we got to the end of it. “Mr. Barksdale, what is going to happen when Microsoft just bundles the browser into their product?” I said, “Well, sir, there are two ways to make money in this world. Bundling and unbundling. We have to catch a flight. Maybe another day, I’ll go through that with you.” We laughed at that one."
China, Asia
"And we used to send people over to China with empty suitcases. They would take units off the factory line over at Foxconn and turn around: Just fly there, pick them up, and fly them back."
Stanford, California
"I met Jaron at a Stanford electronic music concert at night in the outdoors."
Silicon Valley, California
"Silicon Valley is a seemingly ordinary place: a suburban idyll surrounded by a few relatively small cities. So how is it that the Valley keeps conjuring up the future?"
Silicon Valley, California
"But what is the future of this place that makes the future? Where is Silicon Valley going? Where is its technology taking us?"