Introduction: "To serve man" -- John McCarthy: "Solving today's problems tomorrow" -- Frederick Terman: "Stanford can be a dominating factor in the West" -- Bill Gates: "Most of all you steal your software" -- Marc Andreesen: "By the power vested in me by no one in particular" -- Jeff Bezos: "When it's tough, will you give up, or will you be relentless?" -- Sergey Brin and Larry Page: "It was like, wow, maybe we really should start a company now" -- Peter Theil: "Monopolists lie to protect themselves" -- Reid Hoffman et al.: "My membership in a notable corporate alumni group in Silicon Valley has opened the door..." -- Jimmy Wales: "Wikipedia is something special" -- Mark Zuckerberg: "Nerds win" -- The future: "Local, small-scale, active"