Silicon Valley, California (Google Maps ⧉, OpenStreetMap ⧉)

"I grew up in what is now known as Silicon Valley. Only in retrospect does it seem like an unusual place."

"Silicon Valley, Explained: The story of the past, as told by the people of the future"

"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."

"By the mideighties, the technologists who were creating the future in Silicon Valley started to see themselves as more than simply engineers."

"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)..."

"The new new thing—that wasn’t Virtual reality is Silicon Valley’s next new thing."

"The internet is almost as old as Silicon Valley itself, but before the browser was invented, the Valley took the ’net for granted."

"Chances are that you’ve never heard of General Magic, but in Silicon Valley the company is the stuff of legend."

"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."

"The solution? An inspired bit of what Silicon Valley likes to call “social engineering.”"

"But down in Silicon Valley, something stranger and more surprising was being sold."

"Sean Parker: Hank Barry was this copyright attorney from Silicon Valley."

"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."

"In the late nineties dot-com hype and hysteria overtook Silicon Valley and the nation."

"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."

"Doug Engelbart: Silicon Valley’s original visionary and the inventor of the modern “interactive” style of computing—not to mention the mouse"

"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."

"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"

"In Silicon Valley there are two really common sets of values."

"The Hackers Conference, which was first held in 1984, is where Silicon Valley technical types started to recognize themselves as a culture"

"Stewart Brand: the Zelig Silicon Valley avant-gardist"

"the cofounders of Wired magazine who captured and popularized Silicon Valley’s distinctive voice and point of view"

"Sean Parker: one of a long line of bad-boy Silicon Valley entrepreneurs—but the first to destroy a traditional industry"

"quickly rose to become Silicon Valley’s most powerful man"

"What’s different about Silicon Valley are those people who are driven by the creation. —Ev Williams"

"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."

"I’ve got audio clips, rare photos, outtakes, and other neat Silicon Valley stuff to share."

"Howard Warshaw: the creative force behind Silicon Valley’s biggest bomb, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, a game that will forever live in infamy"

"Worse, they were uncomfortable. Silicon Valley covers a big area, but it’s a small place."

"And there was a lot of work in Silicon Valley,' Gordon noted."

"‘And where do you do that work?’ ‘In the Valley.’"

"But I can’t leave the Valley. I have to stay here."

"In short, Silicon Valley is no place for a passive person, and I’m not one."

"Dodgson kept up the contact, meeting the man monthly at Carlos and Charlie's in Silicon Valley, helping him in small ways."

"From the last homestead frontier in Saskatchewan to the information age in Silicon Valley, from horse and plow to mouse and computer."

"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?"

"But what is the future of this place that makes the future? Where is Silicon Valley going? Where is its technology taking us?"