Mitch Kapor

Beware angel investors: they can be disruptive.

— Mitch Kapor

I had no fear of speaking to large audiences.

— Mitch Kapor

I was not a student of Wall Street, but I was a quick study.

— Mitch Kapor

Microsoft represents the best of ourselves or the worst.

— Mitch Kapor

Wikipedia has a way of compiling compendiums of information on subjects.

— Mitch Kapor

My history is to find the next big thing early.

— Mitch Kapor

We have to examine very carefully any privacy-reducing technology.

— Mitch Kapor

I believe in having an impact in doing things.

— Mitch Kapor

The kind of products you envision as an entrepreneur is a function of your life experience.

— Mitch Kapor

Velano Vascular has developed a simple, game-changing innovation that will improve the way medicine has been practiced for decades.

— Mitch Kapor

I think there is widespread agreement that there is a crisis in public education.

— Mitch Kapor

If advertisers want to decorate their ads to increase their conversions by showing what users think, that's a good thing.

— Mitch Kapor

Oakland's time is coming. In fact, Oakland's time is already here. Tech is coming to Oakland, and it's terribly exciting.

— Mitch Kapor

I tell people that the history of Mozilla and Firefox is so one of a kind that it should not be used…

— Mitch Kapor

The accomplishment of open source is that it is the back end of the web, the invisible part, the part that you…

— Mitch Kapor

Both VisiCalc and MultiPlan were available when the IBM PC shipped in October 1981. 1-2-3 didn't hit the market until January 1983.

— Mitch Kapor

In an economy where more and more value is in information - is in the bits, not the atoms, where bits can…

— Mitch Kapor

I've been around long enough to know that empires come and empires go, and I can't tell how long the Google empire…

— Mitch Kapor

Fundly is at the dynamic intersection of high-growth technology startups, social entrepreneurship, and the exploding world of social media. Kapor Capital is…

— Mitch Kapor

Even though I had the talent, programming just didn't feel right. I never considered it very seriously. Some people get gratification from…

— Mitch Kapor

We have a responsibility to give people opportunities to do what they can do. It's a fundamental tenet of democratic society. Libertarians…

— Mitch Kapor

The culmination of all of that was the decision to start a company, which became Lotus, to do a product, which became…

— Mitch Kapor

Successful entrepreneurs develop products that inspire their passion. They have to. It's that passion that gets them through the long, arduous, uncertain…

— Mitch Kapor

I'm fascinated by management and organizations: how organizations get things done and how successful organizations are built and maintained, how they evolve…

— Mitch Kapor

Virtual worlds are going to be a major disruptive element for mainstream society. The idea is that you might interact with other…

— Mitch Kapor

Life in cyberspace is often conducted in primitive frontier conditions, but it is a life which, at its best, is more egalitarian…

— Mitch Kapor

Physicians today, as human beings, are not exempt from the perverse economic pressures created by fee-for-service regimes to see more patients for…

— Mitch Kapor

No, my family is Russian, Georgian, via Ellis Island.

— Mitch Kapor

Bulletin boards are sort of the garage bands of cyberspace.

— Mitch Kapor

E-mail is a victim of its own success.

— Mitch Kapor

People in the industry foresee a time in which, for many people, the only thing they'll need on a computer is a…

— Mitch Kapor

If you look at the history of other movements, whether Civil Rights or environmental rights, these are all decades-long undertakings.

— Mitch Kapor

I'm an inveterate note taker - I scribble all these things down on pieces of paper. I wanted to create some way…

— Mitch Kapor

We are living in an era of anxiety produced by computer and communications technology.

— Mitch Kapor

Failing to continue to support the public higher-ed system in California will have devastating long-term consequences.

— Mitch Kapor

Linden Lab's technological breakthroughs have made 'Second Life' a truly revolutionary experience.

— Mitch Kapor

Jazz was a bomb. That was also the low point of Mac sales. People had just written it off.

— Mitch Kapor

Technology advances at exponential rates, and human institutions and societies do not. They adapt at much slower rates. Those gaps get wider…

— Mitch Kapor

Human intelligence is a marvelous, subtle, and poorly understood phenomenon. There is no danger of duplicating it anytime soon.

— Mitch Kapor

Before I started a company, I was an employee with a bad attitude. I was always felt like, bosses are stupid, and…

— Mitch Kapor