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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. "
Mitch Kapor
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Engineers
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" It is possible to take a population of students who are failing and whose schools are failing them, who are being written off as not being college material, and if they have the right support, they can all go to college and succeed. "
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Go
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" There's an admirable belief about the virtues of meritocracy - that the best ideas prove the best results. It's a wrong and misguided belief by well-intentioned people. "
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Belief
Best
" 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 believe in having an impact in doing things. "
Mitch Kapor
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I Believe
Impact
" 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
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Take
" 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.' "
Mitch Kapor
Misunderstanding
Great
Data
" Hackers are seen as shadowy figures with superhuman powers that threaten civilization. "
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Seen
Hackers
Civilization
" Wikipedia has a way of compiling compendiums of information on subjects. "
Mitch Kapor
Way
Information
Subjects
" 'Silicon Valley' has come to mean the Bay Area, not just down the Peninsula. "
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Valley
Mean
Just
" I had no fear of speaking to large audiences. "
Mitch Kapor
Fear
No Fear
Had
" We have a responsibility to give people opportunities to do what they can do. It's a fundamental tenet of democratic society. Libertarians who believe in a completely minimalist state, and don't feel we have that responsibility, are harming humanity. "
Mitch Kapor
People
Responsibility
Society
" When new technology in the classroom starts happening, some people get very excited and think of it as a panacea. It attracts very high amounts of money; it raises expectations, and those expectations aren't met. "
Mitch Kapor
Technology
People
Money
" 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
Community
Meaning
Society
" E-mail is a victim of its own success. "
Mitch Kapor
Own
Victim
E-Mail
" 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
" We are living in an era of anxiety produced by computer and communications technology. "
Mitch Kapor
Computer
Anxiety
Living
" Few industries have the ability to transform society like tech, yet too few companies are asking the questions or working on the problems that would create meaningful social change. "
Mitch Kapor
Society
Questions
Problems
" 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
Organizing
Down
Create
" 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. "
Mitch Kapor
Practice
Performance
Medical
" Linden Lab's technological breakthroughs have made 'Second Life' a truly revolutionary experience. "
Mitch Kapor
Made
Technological
Life
" If you look at the history of other movements, whether Civil Rights or environmental rights, these are all decades-long undertakings. "
Mitch Kapor
History
You
Look
" Human intelligence is a marvelous, subtle, and poorly understood phenomenon. There is no danger of duplicating it anytime soon. "
Mitch Kapor
Human
Danger
Understood
" Well, I had a lot of help from my father with the soldering and so on, and he was very good at math and was fascinated with computers, and so I was fortunate enough to have a bunch of exposure going all the way back to high school - this was in the 1960s. "
Mitch Kapor
Father
School
Help
" I'm like George Lucas, bringing together a creative team that will come up with a unique, well-crafted product. "
Mitch Kapor
Unique
Will
Together
" The Internet, the network of networks, is growing at an exponential pace. It's growing so fast, in fact, nobody really knows how many people use the Internet. "
Mitch Kapor
Nobody
Internet
Fast
" 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. "
Mitch Kapor
See
Winner
You
" I actually built a tiny computer as a junior high school project. "
Mitch Kapor
High
Tiny
School
" My history is to find the next big thing early. "
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Big
Find
History
" Jazz was a bomb. That was also the low point of Mac sales. People had just written it off. "
Mitch Kapor
Point
People
Off
" Failing to continue to support the public higher-ed system in California will have devastating long-term consequences. "
Mitch Kapor
Consequences
Support
Will