Mitch Kapor Quotes
Top 56 wise famous quotes and sayings by Mitch Kapor
Mitch Kapor Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Mitch Kapor on Wise Famous Quotes.
Often, the disconnect between the marketing hype around a new product and what the product actually does is astounding.
I soon realized that the best thing I could do for the profession of human services was to get out of it.
If advertisers want to decorate their ads to increase their conversions by showing what users think, that's a good thing.
I'd always wanted to live in San Francisco, and my circumstances never permitted it. I'm so happy I made the move.
Oakland's time is coming. In fact, Oakland's time is already here. Tech is coming to Oakland, and it's terribly exciting.
If you look at the history of other movements, whether Civil Rights or environmental rights, these are all decades-long undertakings.
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, always a Brooklynite.
I'm an inveterate note taker - I scribble all these things down on pieces of paper. I wanted to create some way of organizing all of them.
If we're not creating an educated and skilled workforce, there is just no conceivable way that were going to be economically competitive.
I routinely failed to understand that 'simple and straightforward' would have been a much better product strategy for Lotus.
The accomplishment of open source is that it is the back end of the web, the invisible part, the part that you don't see as a user.
I tell people that the history of Mozilla and Firefox is so one of a kind that it should not be used - ever - as an example of what's possible.
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.
If you go back to the '50s and '60s ... there was zero tech in S.F. It was all in the Valley ... and it crept northward in early 2000s.
People are hungry for community. They're hungry for meaning in a society that is oriented around the production and consumption of consumer goods.
If you can command a lot of attention, that's what is valuable, and many in the commercial ecology would like to have a piece of that attention.
Everyone has a subconscious and automatic preference of this over that. Once you're aware of that, you can take steps to change.
Velano Vascular has developed a simple, game-changing innovation that will improve the way medicine has been practiced for decades.
Before I started a company, I was an employee with a bad attitude. I was always felt like, bosses are stupid, and people weren't well treated.
Failing to continue to support the public higher-ed system in California will have devastating long-term consequences.
I don't think Silicon Valley understands the power of Wikipedia, how it works, or the opportunities it represents.
I'd been a great angel investor, but professional venture capital was clearly not the right thing for me.
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 get out of a cocoon.
People in the industry foresee a time in which, for many people, the only thing they'll need on a computer is a browser.
Human intelligence is a marvelous, subtle, and poorly understood phenomenon. There is no danger of duplicating it anytime soon.