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

I've spent a good part of my life in Silicon Valley, California, and I really like that place.

Hollywood is the only thing more ridiculous than Silicon Valley. There's nowhere else where it's stranger.

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

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

One of the great things about moving to Silicon Valley is that you're surrounded by all these people who've done it before. This place is an assembly line that takes a couple of twenty-somethings and walks you through everything you need to learn.

The real force of Silicon Valley is the mentality, the spirit. There's no reason at all that can't be replicated in Paris.

There is a huge amount of wealth that's generated here in Silicon Valley.

Silicon Valley isn't the only game in town. Tech is increasingly decentralized. Around the world, new tech centers with younger companies are able to embrace a different approach to talent: recruit locally, identify homegrown prospects and, in a phrase, bring them along for the ride.

What I found in Silicon Valley is an industry that's sort of been kept a very far remove from Washington and had an attitude of 'Just let us do our thing and make the miracles that people love around the world and leave us alone.'