Where to See Silicon Valley
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</td > October 2010 Silicon Valley proper is mostly suburban sprawl.
</td> 2010 年 10 月 硅谷大部分地区都在郊区蔓延。
At first glance it doesn't seem there's anything to see.
乍一看似乎没什么可看的。
It's not the sort of place that has conspicuous monuments.
这不是那种有显眼纪念碑的地方。
But if you look, there are subtle signs you're in a place that's different from other places.
但如果你仔细观察，就会发现一些微妙的迹象表明你身处一个与其他地方不同的地方。
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Stanford University Stanford is a strange place.
斯坦福大学 斯坦福是一个奇怪的地方。
Structurally it is to an ordinary university what suburbia is to a city.
从结构上来说，它对于一所普通大学就像郊区对于城市一样。
It's enormously spread out, and feels surprisingly empty much of the time.
它非常分散，而且大部分时间都令人惊讶地空荡荡。
But notice the weather.
但要注意天气。
It's probably perfect.
这可能是完美的。
And notice the beautiful mountains to the west.
请注意西边美丽的山脉。
And though you can't see it, cosmopolitan San Francisco is 40 minutes to the north.
尽管您看不到旧金山，但向北行驶 40 分钟即可抵达国际化大都市旧金山。
That combination is much of the reason
这种组合是主要原因
Silicon Valley grew up around this university and not some other one.
硅谷是围绕这所大学而不是其他大学成长起来的。
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<a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=university+and+ramona+palo+alto">University Ave A surprising amount of the work of the Valley is done in the cafes on or just off University Ave in Palo Alto.
<a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=university+and+ramona+palo+alto">大学大道 硅谷的大量工作都是在帕洛阿尔托大学大道上或附近的咖啡馆完成的。
If you visit on a weekday between 10 and 5, you'll often see founders pitching investors.
如果您在工作日上午 10 点到下午 5 点访问，您经常会看到创始人向投资者推销。
In case you can't tell, the founders are the ones leaning
如果你不知道的话，创始人是倾向于
forward eagerly, and the investors are the ones sitting back with slightly pained expressions.
急切地向前走，而投资者则是表情略显痛苦地坐在后面。
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<a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=165+university+ave+palo+alto">The Lucky Office The office at 165 University Ave was Google's first.
<a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=165+university+ave+palo+alto">幸运办公室 位于 165 University Ave 的办公室是 Google 的第一家办公室。
Then it was Paypal's.
然后是Paypal的。
(Now it's Wepay 's.) The interesting thing about it is the location.
（现在是 Wepay 的。）有趣的是它的位置。
It's a smart move to put a startup in a place with restaurants and people walking around instead of in an office park,
将初创公司放在有餐馆和人们走动的地方而不是办公园区是明智之举，
because then the people who work there want to stay there, instead of fleeing as soon as conventional working hours end.
因为在那里工作的人想留在那里，而不是在常规工作时间结束后立即逃离。
They go out for dinner together, talk about ideas, and then come back and implement them.
他们一起出去吃饭，讨论想法，然后回来实施。
It's important to realize that Google's current location in an office park is not where they started; it's just where they were forced to move when they needed more space.
重要的是要认识到，谷歌目前在办公园区的位置并不是他们开始的地方；这正是他们需要更多空间时被迫搬迁的地方。
Facebook was till
Facebook 直到
recently across the street, till they too had to move because they needed more space.
最近在街对面，直到他们也不得不搬家，因为他们需要更多的空间。
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Old Palo Alto Palo Alto was not originally a suburb.
老帕洛阿尔托 帕洛阿尔托最初并不是郊区。
For the first 100 years or so of its existence, it was a college town out in the countryside.
在它存在的最初一百年左右的时间里，它是一个位于乡村的大学城。
Then in the mid 1950s it was engulfed in a wave of suburbia that raced down the peninsula.
然后在 20 世纪 50 年代中期，它被一股席卷半岛的郊区浪潮所吞没。
But Palo Alto north of Oregon expressway still feels noticeably different from the area around it.
但俄勒冈州高速公路以北的帕洛阿尔托仍然给人与周围地区明显不同的感觉。
It's one
这是一个
of the nicest places in the Valley.
山谷中最好的地方。
The buildings are old (though increasingly they are being torn down and replaced with generic McMansions) and the trees are tall.
这些建筑很旧（尽管越来越多的建筑被拆除并被普通的豪宅取代），树木很高。
But houses are very expensive—around $1000 per square foot.
但房子非常昂贵——每平方英尺大约1000美元。
This is post-exit Silicon Valley.
这是退出后的硅谷。
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<a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=2900+sand+hill+road+menlo+park">Sand Hill Road It's interesting to see the VCs' offices on the north side of Sand
<a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=2900+sand+hill+road+menlo+park">Sand Hill Road 在 Sand Hill 北侧看到 VC 的办公室很有趣
Hill Road precisely because they're so boringly uniform.
正是因为它们统一得令人厌烦。
The buildings are all more or less the same, their exteriors express very little, and they are arranged in a confusing maze.
这些建筑物都或多或少相同，它们的外观表现得很少，而且排列在一个令人困惑的迷宫中。
(I've been visiting them for years and I still occasionally get lost.) It's not a coincidence.
（我已经拜访他们很多年了，但偶尔还是会迷路。）这不是巧合。
These buildings are a pretty accurate reflection of the VC business.
这些建筑相当准确地反映了风险投资业务。
If you go on a weekday you may see groups of founders there to meet
如果你在工作日去，你可能会看到一群创始人在那里见面
VCs.
风险投资。
But mostly you won't see anyone; bustling is the last word you'd use to describe the atmos.
但大多数时候你不会见到任何人；熙熙攘攘是你用来形容气氛的最后一个词。
Visiting Sand Hill Road reminds you that the opposite of "down and dirty" would be "up and clean." 6.
参观沙山路会提醒您，“肮脏肮脏”的反义词是“干净整洁”。 6.
<a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=castro+and+villa+mountain+view">Castro Street It's a tossup whether Castro Street or University Ave should be considered the heart of the Valley now.
<a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=castro+and+villa+mountain+view">卡斯特罗街 现在，究竟应该将卡斯特罗街还是大学大道视为山谷的中心地带，还存在争议。
University Ave would have
大学大道会有
been 10 years ago.
已经是10年前了。
But Palo Alto is getting expensive.
但帕洛阿尔托的房价越来越贵。
Increasingly startups are located in Mountain View, and Palo Alto is a place they come to meet investors.
越来越多的初创公司落户山景城，帕洛阿尔托是他们会见投资者的地方。
Palo Alto has a lot of different cafes, but there is one that clearly dominates in Mountain View: <a href="http://maps.google.com/places/us/ca/mountain-view/castro-st/201/-red-rock-coffee">Red Rock .
帕洛阿尔托拥有许多不同的咖啡馆，但在山景城，有一家显然占据主导地位：<a href="http://maps.google.com/places/us/ca/mountain-view/castro-st/201/-red-rock-coffee">Red Rock 。
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<a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=charleston+road+mountain+view">Google
<a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=charleston+road+mountain+view">Google
Google spread out from its first building in Mountain View to a lot of the surrounding ones.
谷歌从山景城的第一座大楼扩展到周围的许多大楼。
But because the buildings were built at different times by different people, the place doesn't have the sterile, walled-off feel that a typical large company's headquarters have.
但由于这些建筑是由不同的人在不同的时间建造的，所以这个地方并不像典型的大公司总部那样，给人一种枯燥、封闭的感觉。
It definitely has a flavor of its own though.
但它绝对有自己的味道。
You sense there is something afoot.
你感觉到有什么事情正在发生。
The general atmos is vaguely utopian; there are lots of Priuses, and people who
总体气氛隐隐约约是乌托邦式的。有很多普锐斯，还有很多人
look like they drive them.
看起来像是他们驾驶的。
You can't get into Google unless you know someone there.
除非您认识那里的人，否则您无法进入 Google。
It's very much worth seeing inside if you can, though.
不过，如果可以的话，里面非常值得一看。
Ditto for Facebook, at the end of California Ave in Palo Alto, though there is nothing to see outside.
Facebook 也是如此，位于帕洛阿尔托加州大道的尽头，不过外面没什么可看的。
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Skyline Drive Skyline Drive runs along the crest of the Santa Cruz mountains.
天际线大道（Skyline Drive） 天际线大道（Skyline Drive）沿着圣克鲁斯山脉的山顶行驶。
On one side is the Valley, and on the other is the sea—which because it's cold and foggy and has few harbors, plays surprisingly
一侧是山谷，另一侧是大海，由于寒冷、多雾且港口很少，这里的景色令人惊奇
little role in the lives of people in the Valley, considering how close it is.
考虑到距离有多近，它对硅谷人们的生活影响不大。
Along some parts of Skyline the dominant trees are huge redwoods, and in others they're live oaks.
天际线的一些地区的主要树木是巨大的红杉，而另一些地区的主要树木是活橡树。
Redwoods mean those are the parts where the fog off the coast comes in at night; redwoods condense rain out of fog.
红杉意味着这些地方是夜间海岸雾气进来的地方；红杉从雾中凝结雨水。
The MROSD manages a collection of <a href="http://www.openspace.org/">great walking trails off Skyline.
MROSD 管理着天际线上一系列<a href="http://www.openspace.org/">很棒的步行道。
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<a
<一
href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=interstate+280+san+mateo">280 Silicon Valley has two highways running the length of it: 101, which is pretty ugly, and 280, which is one of the more beautiful highways in the world.
href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=interstate+280+san+mateo">280 硅谷有两条高速公路贯穿整个硅谷：101 号（相当丑陋）和 280 号（世界上最美丽的高速公路之一）。
I always take 280 when I have a choice.
当我有选择的时候，我总是选择280。
Notice the long narrow lake to the west?
注意到西边狭长的湖泊了吗？
That's the San Andreas Fault.
这就是圣安德烈亚斯断层。
It runs along the base of the hills, then heads uphill through Portola Valley.
它沿着山脚延伸，然后上坡穿过波托拉山谷。
One of the MROSD trails runs <a
其中一条 MROSD 路线是 <a
href="http://www.openspace.org/preserves/pr_los_trancos.asp">right along the fault .
href="http://www.openspace.org/preserves/pr_los_trancos.asp">就沿着断层。
A string of rich neighborhoods runs along the foothills to the west of 280: Woodside, Portola Valley, Los Altos Hills, Saratoga, Los Gatos.
280 公路以西的山麓地带分布着一系列富裕社区：Woodside、Portola Valley、Los Altos Hills、Saratoga、Los Gatos。
SLAC goes right under 280 a little bit south of Sand Hill Road.
SLAC 位于沙山路 (Sand Hill Road) 以南一点的 280 米以下。
And a couple miles south of that is the Valley's equivalent of the "Welcome to Las Vegas" sign: The Dish .
其南面几英里处是硅谷相当于“欢迎来到拉斯维加斯”的标志：The Dish。
Notes
注释
I skipped the Computer History Museum because this is a list of where to see the Valley itself, not where to see artifacts from it.
我跳过了计算机历史博物馆，因为这是一个可以看到山谷本身的地方的列表，而不是可以看到山谷中文物的地方。
I also skipped San Jose.
我也跳过了圣何塞。
San Jose calls itself the capital of Silicon Valley, but when people in the Valley use the phrase "the city," they mean San Francisco.
圣何塞自称为硅谷之都，但当硅谷的人们使用“城市”一词时，他们指的是旧金山。
San Jose is a dotted line on a map.
圣何塞是地图上的一条虚线。
Thanks to Sam Altman, Paul Buchheit, Patrick Collison, and Jessica Livingston
感谢 Sam Altman、Paul Buchheit、Patrick Collison 和 Jessica Livingston