"...I myself do not like the breathlessness of Silicon Valley. I do not like its hyperconnected communications style. I do not like its insistence on being young and hip and hot and hyped. I have this vision of Thoreau and Emerson and Whitman and Dickinson, all calling out to us, all trying to wave us away from some collision course with — what? I do not know. But I am nervous about it." - Geoffrey Moore in the foreword to Silicon Gold Rush