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You can't be in the tech community ... without realizing there's a big shortage of talent.
— Mitch Kapor
Often, the disconnect between the marketing hype around a new product and what the product actually does is astounding.
— Mitch Kapor
I soon realized that the best thing I could do for the profession of human services was to get out of it.
— Mitch Kapor
My history is to find the next big thing early.
— 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
I'd always wanted to live in San Francisco, and my circumstances never permitted it. I'm so happy I made the move.
— 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
We are living in an era of anxiety produced by computer and communications technology.
— Mitch Kapor
Open source can propagate to fill all the nooks and crannies that people want it to fill.
— Mitch Kapor
This is the snobbery of the people on the Mayflower looking down their noses at the people who came over ON THE SECOND BOAT!
— Mitchell Kapor
The more you eliminate the inefficient use of information, the better it is for productivity.
— Mitch Kapor
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.
— Mitch Kapor
Inside every working anarchy, there's an Old Boy Network.
— Mitchell Kapor
Beware angel investors: they can be disruptive.
— 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
Old ways of thinking die hard, particularly when they were weaned by legally enforced monopolies.
— Mitch Kapor
I believe in having an impact in doing things.
— Mitch Kapor
One of the perks of being the founder is that you get to build the company in your image.
— Mitch Kapor
If we're not creating an educated and skilled workforce, there is just no conceivable way that were going to be economically competitive.
— Mitch Kapor
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.
— Mitch Kapor
I routinely failed to understand that 'simple and straightforward' would have been a much better product strategy for Lotus.
— Mitch Kapor
Linden Lab's technological breakthroughs have made 'Second Life' a truly revolutionary experience.
— Mitch Kapor
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.
— Mitch Kapor
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.
— 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
Architecture is politics.
— Mitchell Kapor
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.
— Mitch Kapor
Hackers are seen as shadowy figures with superhuman powers that threaten civilization.
— Mitch Kapor
People are hungry for community. They're hungry for meaning in a society that is oriented around the production and consumption of consumer goods.
— Mitch Kapor
I had no fear of speaking to large audiences.
— Mitch Kapor
E-mail is a victim of its own success.
— Mitch Kapor
If Microsoft is the new IBM, Google is the new Microsoft - the defining company of the industry.
— Mitchell Kapor
Everyone has a subconscious and automatic preference of this over that. Once you're aware of that, you can take steps to change.
— Mitch Kapor
Velano Vascular has developed a simple, game-changing innovation that will improve the way medicine has been practiced for decades.
— Mitch Kapor
Computers ought to help people find their own best path through lots of textual information.
— Mitch Kapor
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.
— Mitch Kapor
Jazz was a bomb. That was also the low point of Mac sales. People had just written it off.
— Mitch Kapor
Failing to continue to support the public higher-ed system in California will have devastating long-term consequences.
— Mitch Kapor
I don't think Silicon Valley understands the power of Wikipedia, how it works, or the opportunities it represents.
— Mitch Kapor
If information wants to be free, then that's true everywhere, not just in information technology.
— Mitch Kapor
Entrepreneurship is not only a mindset but a skillset.
— Mitchell Kapor
I'd been a great angel investor, but professional venture capital was clearly not the right thing for me.
— Mitch Kapor
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.
— Mitch Kapor
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.
— Mitch Kapor
There are excellent public interest grounds to have a search engine whose rankings are transparent.
— 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 browser.
— Mitch Kapor
Human intelligence is a marvelous, subtle, and poorly understood phenomenon. There is no danger of duplicating it anytime soon.
— Mitch Kapor
I'm like George Lucas, bringing together a creative team that will come up with a unique, well-crafted product.
— Mitch Kapor
Microsoft represents the best of ourselves or the worst.
— Mitch Kapor
No, my family is Russian, Georgian, via Ellis Island.
— Mitch Kapor
I woke up nights, worrying that Lotus was out of control - that no one would know what to do.
— Mitch Kapor
The kind of products you envision as an entrepreneur is a function of your life experience.
— Mitch Kapor
[The Internet,] A Superhighway through the Wasteland?
— Mitchell Kapor