I consider everybody who takes themselves seriously to be a little bit off. And Silicon Valley seems to be the most effusive about how important their contributions are to society.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Everyone knows that Silicon Valley is chock full of fabulous people who 'do good while doing well.'
Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world.
Hollywood is the only thing more ridiculous than Silicon Valley. There's nowhere else where it's stranger.
Silicon Valley is a mindset, not a location.
For all the billions of dollars created here, Silicon Valley is remarkably stingy when it comes to giving.
What people often ask me is, 'What are the ingredients of Silicon Valley?' While the answer to that is complex, some of the ingredients I talk about are celebrating entrepreneurship, accepting failure, and embracing a mobile and diverse workforce.
A remarkable thing about the Silicon Valley culture is that its status structure is so based on technical accomplishment and prowess.
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.
Unfortunately, in the race to the most douchebaggery, Silicon Valley is fast in gaining on Hollywood. That race is neck and neck.
Silicon Valley is constantly saying that the government is irrelevant and powerless. But that's because most people there have never seen it get serious.