Mitch Kapor Quotes

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• Virtual worlds are going to be a major disruptive element for mainstream society. The idea is that you might interact with other people in a…
• Reversing the escalation of health care costs is going to need more than legislation, yet it can be done without imposing rationing, as critics of…
• I was not a student of Wall Street, but I was a quick study.
• It became clear to me by 1984 that Microsoft was likely going to be the big winner in the PC software apps and operating system…
• I had no fear of speaking to large audiences.
• Today, in the Internet gold rush, so many people go into dot-com jobs right from school or even before finishing. Their motivation is understandable, but…
• In my case, having knocked around at different jobs helped me get a sense of what the world is actually like and also helped me…
• Beware angel investors: they can be disruptive.
• My history is to find the next big thing early.
• If you look at the history of other movements, whether Civil Rights or environmental rights, these are all decades-long undertakings.
• I soon realized that the best thing I could do for the profession of human services was to get out of it.
• Bulletin boards are sort of the garage bands of cyberspace.
• Wikipedia has a way of compiling compendiums of information on subjects.
• One of the perks of being the founder is that you get to build the company in your image.
• I woke up nights, worrying that Lotus was out of control - that no one would know what to do.
• Computers ought to help people find their own best path through lots of textual information.
• On a personal note, I was born in Brooklyn. My folks moved out to Long Island when I was quite young, but once a Brooklynite,…
• Physicians today, as human beings, are not exempt from the perverse economic pressures created by fee-for-service regimes to see more patients for shorter appointments and…
• The widespread adoption of broadband and the continued advances in personal computing technology are finally making it possible for the collective creation of an online…
• Velano Vascular has developed a simple, game-changing innovation that will improve the way medicine has been practiced for decades.

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