Mitch Kapor

Best Mitch Kapor Quotes

• We have to examine very carefully any privacy-reducing technology. Any
• In an economy where more and more value is in information - is in the bits, not the atoms, where bits can be copied essentially… Any
• Open source can propagate to fill all the nooks and crannies that people want it to fill. All
• Microsoft represents the best of ourselves or the worst. Best
• Human intelligence is a marvelous, subtle, and poorly understood phenomenon. There is no danger of duplicating it anytime soon. Anytime
• Often, the disconnect between the marketing hype around a new product and what the product actually does is astounding. Astounding
• Few industries have the ability to transform society like tech, yet too few companies are asking the questions or working on the problems that would… Ability
• Life in cyberspace is often conducted in primitive frontier conditions, but it is a life which, at its best, is more egalitarian than elitist and… Audiences
• Life in cyberspace seems to be shaping up exactly like Thomas Jefferson would have wanted: founded on the primacy of individual liberty and a commitment… Commitment
• Old ways of thinking die hard, particularly when they were weaned by legally enforced monopolies. Die
• Jazz was a bomb. That was also the low point of Mac sales. People had just written it off. Bomb
• The kind of products you envision as an entrepreneur is a function of your life experience. Entrepreneur
• Technology advances at exponential rates, and human institutions and societies do not. They adapt at much slower rates. Those gaps get wider and wider. Adapt
• It is possible to take a population of students who are failing and whose schools are failing them, who are being written off as not… All
• I believe in having an impact in doing things. Believe
• I think there is widespread agreement that there is a crisis in public education. Agreement
• Hackers are seen as shadowy figures with superhuman powers that threaten civilization. Civilization
• We are living in an era of anxiety produced by computer and communications technology. Anxiety
• The computer environment is radically different today. In the 1980s, it was like the Wild West, with a lot of open territory. Now, the cowboys… Computer
• No, my family is Russian, Georgian, via Ellis Island. Ellis
• The culmination of all of that was the decision to start a company, which became Lotus, to do a product, which became 1-2-3. By the… All

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