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Gives birth to a high tech cult and a place called silicon valley. >> the magic part of silicon valley is that there is this boiling pot of people who were involved in technology, involved in science. silicon valley was hp, sri, xerox and stanford university. that was a hell of a powerful combination. >> there were these two cultures, engineers with ph.d.s and hobbyists. >> it was a time when there was a lot of social [ inaudible ] in and around the area. there was a lot of counter culture people. you had cheap semiconductors, you had people who would look at things differently than what the c...

Gives birth to a new high-tech cult and a place called silicon valley. >> the magic part of silicon valley is that there was this boiling pot of people who were involved in technology, involved in science. >> silicon valley was hp, sri, xerox park and the university. >> there were these two cultures engineers with ph.d.s and hobbyists. >> there was a lot of counter culture people. so you had cheap semi-conductors. people that would look at things differently than what the conventional person was, and that's what the technology needed then. >> one of the things that was really hard about making...

And how we a part of it, even at our companies we were the fringe element. we had the jeans. a clever design on its own had value. >> you had these guys like bill gates and steve wozniak. but no one in corporate america and no one in most of the homes of america thought that the personal computer was anything that would ever have, would ever even happen, let alone have any relevance to them. >> for all of us, the computer revolution was really exciting. it was like, wow, this is wide open. >> it was a group of people who want to make a change in the world. and eventually, the two forces in sil...

Perhaps in no area have past governments sold out special interests and foreign hobbyists more than on the issue of immigration. year after year you have pleaded for washington to enforce our laws. refugees flood in and lacked vetting that threatened your family's safety and security. your pleas have finally -- don't worry, we'll have the wall. don't worry about it. [cheers and applause] [crowd chants "build that wall"]

There was a lot of this revolutionary theme, a lot of people into the changes in technology and how we a part of it, even at our companies we were the fringe element. we had the genes. a clever design on its own had value. >> you had these guys like bill gates and steve wozniak. but no one in corporate america and no one in most of the homes of america thought that the personal computer was anything that would ever even happen, let alone have any relevance to them. >> for all of us, the computer revolution was really exciting. it was like, wow, this is wide open. >> it was a group of people wh...