I love Silicon Valley, but there is a dominant voice of, 'Tech is cool. Tech is geeky. Tech is a guy with a hoodie.'

While shooting 'Selma,' I would train on my off time with the assistant men's track and field coach at Georgia Tech.

I don't know anything about tech, but I do know something about slightly socially crippled and overly cerebral guys.

I got lucky because my dad moved us to Silicon Valley before it really was known worldwide as an important tech hub.

I actually really like DJ Assault - a Detroit a ghetto tech DJ, who's produced good music that's influenced me a bit.

Arizona should be to the Sharing Economy what Texas is to Oil and what Silicon Valley used to be to the tech industry.

I wanna make it cool for kids to get into tech, startups, and entrepreneurship - cooler than buying a bunch of jewelry.

One thing I learned about Tech N9ne is just hard work. That dude don't sleep. I ain't ever seen this dude really sleep.

Minorities often feel like they are on the outside looking in when it comes to the Valley and tech start-ups in general.

India has long been an exporter of talent to tech companies... But it is India that's now undergoing its own revolution.

Oakland's time is coming. In fact, Oakland's time is already here. Tech is coming to Oakland, and it's terribly exciting.

I like video games. I like tech. I like travel. I like my dog. I like food. I'm like, 'That's what I'm going to focus on.'

Tech is a funny industry; I don't think there is any other industry on the planet that reinvents itself every 10-12 years.

Tech gives people more opportunities to be themselves in front of other people. Sometimes that's great; sometimes it's bad.

Everyone I look up to is bringing me into the tech world. You'd be surprised by all the music people in it, invested in it.

People always worry that buying tech products today carries a risk of obsolescence. Most of the time, that fear is overblown.

Competition in the American tech sector is being gobbled up by the largest players, and it's threatening our entire industry.

In tech entrepreneurship, even a lot of hack events tend to be overly commercial in that they're designed to produce companies.

I was a little bit of a tech lord. Not a lord. More of a duke or a nobleman. I was into that stuff as a kid. Nothing too crazy.

I remember loving food tech because of the precision and the creativity, the weights and measures, the tiny glimpses of flavour.

On the tech side, little start-ups can do something magnificent. They don't need too much in terms of plants and infrastructure.

Tech companies don't exist in a bubble; they draw from and feed into a larger community. Ideally, the relationship is symbiotic.

My dad has never had a mobile phone or computer. And that was the way when I grew up, so I still take tech with a pinch of salt.

History suggests the 2010s will give rise to a super-unicorn or two that reflect the key tech wave of the decade, the mobile web.

The tech rehearsal for Brits is so different. They have little glasses of wine and walk around saying, 'Lovely, darling, lovely.'

I'm excited to launch 'Waveform,' which will explore everything from tech news and new products to the videos that surround them.

My family know not to get me any tech for Christmas. I can never get it to work, and it all becomes very tearful and pressurised.

We've got to make sure tech companies - all of them - aren't taking steps that will place content beyond the reach of the courts.

Paul Otellini, the former CEO of Intel, I worked with while I was still with VMware. I knew Ram Shriram through the tech industry.

Ever since me and the brothers no longer make music together, I stepped aside, and I've been doubling down here in the tech world.

Minority founders often feel like they are on the outside looking in when it comes to Silicon Valley and tech startups in general.

Cities like New York have already followed San Francisco and have started similar organizations like sfCiti; New York has TECH NYC.

We understand bringing girls into the tech space is about giving them skills to create social impact and change in their community.

Open-minded tech tinkerers may still prefer traditional PCs for work because they allow much more customization than, say, an iPad.

Securing and attracting the best talent is an obsession in the tech industry for good reason. It's your main asset; it's your edge.

I've never thought of myself as a female engineer or founder or a woman in tech. I just think of myself as someone who's passionate.

Cultivating a thoughtful citizenry is a project for educators, parents, and religious and community leaders as much as tech leaders.

The way we'll get more jobs is by creating new industries, new companies, businesses that are higher tech and therefore can compete.

If you go back to the '50s and '60s... there was zero tech in S.F. It was all in the Valley... and it crept northward in early 2000s.

I felt that I didn't get a fair chance at Texas Tech to compete, for an assortment of reasons, but reasons I couldn't really control.

We can't have tech just for the sake of it. To maximise the potential of technology solutions you have to understand how to use them.

Seattle was hardly a tech magnet before Amazon, Microsoft, and then a host of once-fledgling technology firms set up operations there.

There tends to be a lot of autism around the tech centers... when you concentrate the geeks, you're concentrating the autism genetics.

There's tonnes of room for more people in the tech market, and there are lots of content gaps that have still not yet been tapped into.

Our goal is to really have young women of color embrace the tech marketplace and the tech innovation space as both leaders and creators.

It's an absurd world - you know, billionaires in Birkenstocks. But I'd rather have nerdy tech guys as the next Carnegie than oil tycoons.

A conservative vision to tech issues assumes the imperfection of mankind and a preference for markets - not politics - to drive outcomes.

This is Massachusetts, we're supposed to be one of the tech centers of the world. We have MIT within walking distance of the state house.

Major global institutions need to harvest clean tech knowledge wherever it can be found and integrate it into their major export systems.

The fashion sector is very hot in New York, especially the fashion tech sector, and a lot of women have been the leaders in the industry.

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