The natives of Silicon Valley learned long ago that when you share your knowledge with someone else, one plus one usually equals three. You both learn each other's ideas, and you come up with new ones.

An open-minded and diverse population that readily shares information, encourages experimentation, accepts failure and dispenses with formality and hierarchy is what makes Silicon Valley the successful hub that it is.

Silicon Valley is a mindset, not a location.

The amounts of money in Silicon Valley are staggering.

I was in Bangalore, India, the Silicon Valley of India, when I realized that the world was flat.

It is like being at Oracle in the 1990s Silicon Valley.