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" A typical medical practice is like an old-fashioned business which keeps all of its records on paper. It can probably track down any individual transaction if it needs to, but it's basically helpless when it comes to overall measurements of performance. And that's the big problem. "

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" Diversifying our tech talent pool is an imperative for the tech sector. More diverse engineers and entrepreneurs will bring about a new type of innovation that Silicon Valley has yet to see. "

" Lotus's efforts around the Mac were pathetically unsuccessful, which is sad. "

" 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 more decentralized than hierarchical. It serves individuals and communities, not mass audiences, and it is extraordinarily multi-faceted in the purposes to which it is put. "

" There's a great deal of suspicion and misunderstanding about IT among practicing doctors. One hears things like, 'I don't want to be turned into a data entry clerk, and I don't want some machine between me and my patients.' "

" I don't think Silicon Valley understands the power of Wikipedia, how it works, or the opportunities it represents. "

" We've already gotten a significant grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and a university consortium. I think the whole sector of Foundations, potentially with government support, is promising - more than promising, I think, it's substantial. "

" There are excellent public interest grounds to have a search engine whose rankings are transparent. "

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" In an economy where more and more value is in information - is in the bits, not the atoms, where bits can be copied essentially for free - any time you have that situation, economic schemes that rely on existing models of intellectual property laws for protection are going to do less and less well. "

" 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. "

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

" That's why it has to be a nonprofit, because a nonprofit is required to take monies it receives and use them for the purposes for which it's chartered by the government. It can't be pocketed. "

" One of the perks of being the founder is that you get to build the company in your image. "

" Open source can propagate to fill all the nooks and crannies that people want it to fill. "

" 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 reform fear. "

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" Startups, in some sense, have gotten so easy to start that we are confusing two things. And what we are confusing, often, is, 'How far can you get in your first day of travel?' with, 'How long it is going to take to get up to the top of the mountain?' "

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

" I'd been a great angel investor, but professional venture capital was clearly not the right thing for me. "

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

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

" I woke up nights, worrying that Lotus was out of control - that no one would know what to do. "

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" 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. "

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

" My history is to find the next big thing early. "

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

" 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 order more tests and procedures. If the incentives were changed to pay to foster better health outcomes, I am convinced physician behavior would change over time. "

" E-mail is a victim of its own success. "

" 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. "