Santa Clara Valley Historical Association

"The generation that's coming behind us is going to enjoy technology. They're going to know what they want. It's going to be really clear what hits and what doesn't hit. There's not going to be a lot of ambiguity about it. Technology will not be the thing that sells them. They couldn't care less if it doesn't solve some problem in their life or enhance something. And I think when they see it, there are going to be big markets for it."
Chris Malachowsky
Founder, NVIDIA

"I look at Silicon Valley as still the seed growth area for the computing industry and the future of information technology in the world."
John Warnock
Founder, Adobe Systems

"What is happening in the Valley is that you have a sense of the best and the brightest technical minds in the world. They congregate here. They come here from all over Europe, from all over the Far East, from all over India and the Americas. They find people like themselves, they find an environment which is very receptive to the energy and vitality they bring. The art form today is no longer painting and sculpture, but it is creating patterns that you etch in silicon or you etch and print into the circuit board — the breadth of knowledge that is required to do what we do, the new vitality that is brought to bear, the sense of the future and the belief in the future which was also part of the Renaissance."
Federico Faggin
Developer of the Microprocessor
Founder, Zilog, Inc.