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" 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
Change
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Take
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" 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. "
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" You can't be in the tech community... without realizing there's a big shortage of talent. "
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" I believe in having an impact in doing things. "
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" 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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" No, my family is Russian, Georgian, via Ellis Island. "
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" 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. "
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" I woke up nights, worrying that Lotus was out of control - that no one would know what to do. "
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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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" 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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" Oakland's time is coming. In fact, Oakland's time is already here. Tech is coming to Oakland, and it's terribly exciting. "
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Coming
Exciting
" 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. "
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Society
Questions
Problems
" Jazz was a bomb. That was also the low point of Mac sales. People had just written it off. "
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Point
People
Off
" 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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People
Belief
Best
" 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
" Beware angel investors: they can be disruptive. "
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Angel
Investors
Disruptive
" 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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See
I Am
" 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. "
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Back
You
Accomplishment
" I've been around long enough to know that empires come and empires go, and I can't tell how long the Google empire is going to last - but I'm pretty convinced that the answer is less than forever. "
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Empires
Know
Google
" I soon realized that the best thing I could do for the profession of human services was to get out of it. "
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Profession
Soon
Best
" Linden Lab's technological breakthroughs have made 'Second Life' a truly revolutionary experience. "
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Made
Technological
Life
" 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. "
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Young
Born
Brooklyn
" The more you eliminate the inefficient use of information, the better it is for productivity. "
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Information
Use
Better
" E-mail is a victim of its own success. "
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Own
Victim
E-Mail
" 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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Practice
Performance
Medical
" 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. "
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Down
Own
Mean
" 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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Foundation
Government
Support
" One of the perks of being the founder is that you get to build the company in your image. "
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Build
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" If only I'd stayed on the West Coast, I might have made something of myself. "
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Made
West
" Successful entrepreneurs develop products that inspire their passion. They have to. It's that passion that gets them through the long, arduous, uncertain and frightening early days of a start-up. "
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Early
Passion
" I'd always wanted to live in San Francisco, and my circumstances never permitted it. I'm so happy I made the move. "
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Live
Circumstances
Move