If you have never visited the valleys, the view from the mountain top is not breathtaking.
That's what we do when we work in Silicon Valley tech startups: We think about who's going to benefit from this. That's almost the only thing we think about.
You are the mountain and the valley.
Though I walk through the valley of death I will fear no evil, for I am the evilest motherfucker in the valley
Life has all sorts of hills and valleys, and sometimes you don't end up doing what you had your heart set out on, but sometimes that's even better.
How green was my valley then, and the valley of them that have gone.
Shade and light are different in every valley.
Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.
In a mist the heights can for the most part see each other; but the valleys cannot.
I dreamed you were standing in this dark place and you touched these dead flowers and they lit up like they were electric or something. Electric lilies. Lighting up the Valley.
Current ethos in Silicon Valley is that if you build a website that people keep coming back to and is changing the lives of millions, you can eventually make money.
Mine is the Month of Roses; yes, and mine The Month of Marriages! All pleasant sights And scents, the fragrance of the blossoming vine, The foliage of the valleys and the heights. Mine are the longest days, the loveliest nights; The mower's scythe makes music to my ear; I am the mother of all dear delights; I am the fairest daughter of the year.
I would rather my descendants have greater abilities and a greater knowledge of the love of Christ than I do, much like standing on one's shoulders in order to get a clearer view of the valley.
If I were starting now I would do things very differently. I didn't know anything. In Silicon Valley, you get this feeling that you have to be out here. But it's not the only place to be. If I were starting now, I would have stayed in Boston. [Silicon Valley] is a little short-term focused and that bothers me.
Life was never meant to be a struggle, just a gentle progression from one point to another, much like walking through a valley on a sunny day.
Hollywood is in the perception business where you create layers to create mystery. In Silicon Valley it's about taking away the layers to get to the substance.
Silicon Valley is way more correlated with Nasdaq than anyone admits.
There are lots and lots of challenges that I wished - at the time - that I had done. There are lots of occasions where there were exciting things to be done but for some reason or another it was physically impossible for us to do them. I still wouldn't mind if I was able to go down into this most impressive valley in the Antarctic, but of course those things are beyond me now.
All the trials and tribulations have paid off. In life, you have setbacks. . . When you're in your valley, that's when you're tested the most -not when you're at your peak.
Character is forged not on the mountaintop but in the valley.