First of all, it's going to be built up, we're going to build the stuff out of silicon.

At the core of America s success is technology, symbolized by Silicon Valley.

And right here guys, Silicon Valley, I mean how many people have an iPhone on them right now?

And then this is the silicon sheath I roll over, to keep it on. Which, when I sweat, you know, I'm pistoning out of it.

Chinese and Indian engineers hail from places that have much more in common with nitty gritty Africa than comfortable Silicon Valley or Cambridge.

The Asperger guy. And if you were to get rid of all the autism genetics there would be no more Silicon Valley, and the energy crisis would not be solved.

There's going to be about half the people on the spectrum that are not going to learn to talk, and they're not going to be working Silicon Valley, that would not be a reasonable thing for them to do.

Back in 1992, I started working for a company called Interval Research, which was just then being founded by David Lidell and Paul Allen as a for profit research enterprise in Silicon Valley.

But there are many others New Profit in Cambridge, New School's Venture Fund in Silicon Valley, Venture Philanthropy Partners in Washington, Global Fund for Women in San Francisco.

Visiting Silicon Valley in California last year, I saw how investment has been pouring into new renewable energy and fuel efficiency technologies.

And I saw something extraordinary happening in Silicon Valley, so I wanted to be there, and I saw that the computer was coming into our homes, that it had to change in order to be with us in our homes.

Fear of crises is understandable, yet without these new, creative approaches to financing, Silicon Valley might never have been born.

In Silicon Valley, for example, the government has acted as a strategic investor through a decentralized network of public institutions The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, NASA, the Small Business Innovation Research program (SBIR), and the National Science Foundation.

And when it became possible to manipulate DNA in vitro, the metaphor of a genetic program appeared even more precise scientists could construct experiments that corresponded to the reprogramming of cells merely by working on symbols in silicon.