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" Bulletin boards are sort of the garage bands of cyberspace. "
Mitch Kapor
Cyberspace
Boards
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Open source can propagate to fill all the nooks and crannies that people want it to fill. "
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" 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. "
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" I actually built a tiny computer as a junior high school project. "
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Tiny
School
" Old ways of thinking die hard, particularly when they were weaned by legally enforced monopolies. "
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Hard
Ways
Thinking
" 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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" 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. "
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Government
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" I was trying to figure out what to do next, I'd been accumulating ideas for productivity tools - software people could use every day, particularly to help organize their lives. "
Mitch Kapor
People
Day
Help
" The critical thing in developing software is not the program, it's the design. It is translating understanding of user needs into something that can be realized as a computer program. "
Mitch Kapor
Design
Software
Needs
" Human intelligence is a marvelous, subtle, and poorly understood phenomenon. There is no danger of duplicating it anytime soon. "
Mitch Kapor
Human
Danger
Understood
" People in the industry foresee a time in which, for many people, the only thing they'll need on a computer is a browser. "
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Many
Need
Time
" I'm fascinated by management and organizations: how organizations get things done and how successful organizations are built and maintained, how they evolve as they grow from start-ups to small companies to medium companies to big companies. "
Mitch Kapor
Grow
Small
Successful
" 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. "
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Me
World
Sense
" The main languages out of which web applications are built - whether it's Perl or Python or PHP or any of the other languages - those are all open source languages. So the infrastructure of the web is open source... the web as we know it is completely dependent on open source. "
Mitch Kapor
Open
Infrastructure
Know
" I believe in having an impact in doing things. "
Mitch Kapor
Doing
I Believe
Impact
" It became clear to me by 1984 that Microsoft was likely going to be the big winner in the PC software apps and operating system category, partly because of the dynamics of owning and controlling the operating system: that gave you enormous power, and I came to see Bill Gates was fierce competitor. "
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See
Winner
You
" There are a lot of similarities between cyberspace and the frontier. It's pretty raw and primitive. I mean, you have to churn your own butter in cyberspace. You can't go down to the 7-Eleven and buy a stick of butter because it's not that well developed. "
Mitch Kapor
Down
Own
Mean
" 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
October
Market
Available
" The kind of products you envision as an entrepreneur is a function of your life experience. "
Mitch Kapor
Life
Entrepreneur
You
" E-mail is a victim of its own success. "
Mitch Kapor
Own
Victim
E-Mail
" I give Bill Gates an A for vision because, as a business person and a strategist, he's brilliant. His flaw is that his view is not informed by a humanistic or compassionate vision of how to make computers work for people. "
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People
Work
Business
" 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 to pluralism, diversity, and community. "
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Life
Commitment
Diversity
" Today, in the Internet gold rush, so many people go into dot-com jobs right from school or even before finishing. Their motivation is understandable, but sometimes they just lack experience. "
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Experience
Gold
People
" No, my family is Russian, Georgian, via Ellis Island. "
Mitch Kapor
Family
Island
Russian
" The widespread adoption of broadband and the continued advances in personal computing technology are finally making it possible for the collective creation of an online world on a realistic scale. "
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Creation
World
Personal
" 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 have moved out and the farmers have moved in. "
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Farmers
Wild
Today
" If advertisers want to decorate their ads to increase their conversions by showing what users think, that's a good thing. "
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A Good Thing
Good
Want
" If we're not creating an educated and skilled workforce, there is just no conceivable way that were going to be economically competitive. "
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Competitive
Creating
Way
" Hackers are seen as shadowy figures with superhuman powers that threaten civilization. "
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Seen
Hackers
Civilization