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" For people who know both New York and the Bay Area, it is a complement to say that Oakland is San Francisco's Brooklyn. It's a complement both to Oakland and to Brooklyn. And, if you look at Brooklyn, Brooklyn is hot; Brooklyn is cool. "

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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. "

Mitch Kapor

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" Wikipedia has a way of compiling compendiums of information on subjects. "

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

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

" Often, the disconnect between the marketing hype around a new product and what the product actually does is astounding. "

" I'd always wanted to live in San Francisco, and my circumstances never permitted it. I'm so happy I made the move. "

" 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. "

" Everyone has a subconscious and automatic preference of this over that. Once you're aware of that, you can take steps to change. "

" 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. "

" It's illegitimate to talk about a post-scarcity Utopia without talking about questions of distribution. There have always been these Utopian predictions - 'electricity too cheap to meter' was the atomic promise of the 1950s. "

" Hackers are seen as shadowy figures with superhuman powers that threaten civilization. "

" The more you eliminate the inefficient use of information, the better it is for productivity. "

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

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

" 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

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" If we're not creating an educated and skilled workforce, there is just no conceivable way that were going to be economically competitive. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" People are hungry for community. They're hungry for meaning in a society that is oriented around the production and consumption of consumer goods. "

" 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. "

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

Mitch Kapor

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" Velano Vascular has developed a simple, game-changing innovation that will improve the way medicine has been practiced for decades. "

" I actually built a tiny computer as a junior high school project. "

" 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. "

" I soon realized that the best thing I could do for the profession of human services was to get out of it. "

" Beware angel investors: they can be disruptive. "

" Failing to continue to support the public higher-ed system in California will have devastating long-term consequences. "