Eric Schmidt: Weather, Few "WASP-y Americans" Make Silicon Valley Special

wsj.com:

Here's what Mr. Schmidt, a 33-year resident of the Bay Area, had to say about Silicon Valley hiring and the role of the weather in the local labor market:

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[Palemoon]

So what he's saying is, they are creating things simply for their love of money and pure greed. That greed drives innovation.

Hmmm, whatever happened to necessity being the mother of invention and innovation? We ALWAYS have a need for a better mousetrap, so to speak, so that alone should drive innovation. And with our current global economic and resources crisis still ongoing, you would think that alternative energies and methods would be coming to the forefront. But when you try that, they suddenly whine that it's too expensive to start-up such a thing, and that there is no money in it.

No money in it. Get used to hearing that.

[Tyrione]

``Q: What makes Silicon Valley and Silicon Valley workers different, and can that be replicated elsewhere?

A: You need a bunch of things. You need a venture-capital industry, you need a culture that will be tolerant of failure and the laws have to allow you to fail and not be criminalized. You have to obviously have a global perspective.

It has been remarked many times in Silicon Valley that when you walk through Silicon Valley, the majority of the people do not look like WASP-y Americans. They at least visually appear culturally different and they are often from India, for example. These are all reproducible but they aren't reproducible easily''

That's the dumbest clap-trap any CEO can spout. The reason Schmidt is successful is because of Google's Founders.

The man nearly drove Novell into the ground and wasn't much to write home about at Sun Microsystems.

``He joined Sun Microsystems in 1983, led its Java development efforts and rose to become Chief Technology Officer''

Horse crap. James Gosling created and perfected Java for what it is and the Java Community drove it, not Eric.