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

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" 'Silicon Valley' has come to mean the Bay Area, not just down the Peninsula. "

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

" 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. "

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

" No, my family is Russian, Georgian, via Ellis Island. "

" I'm like George Lucas, bringing together a creative team that will come up with a unique, well-crafted product. "

" 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. "

" I think there is widespread agreement that there is a crisis in public education. "

" 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. "

" If only I'd stayed on the West Coast, I might have made something of myself. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

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" 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. "

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

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

" Managerial and professional people hadn't really used computers, hadn't sat down at keyboards, until personal computers. Personal computers have a totally different feel. "

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

" Computers ought to help people find their own best path through lots of textual information. "

" I believe in having an impact in doing things. "

" 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. "

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

" Technology advances at exponential rates, and human institutions and societies do not. They adapt at much slower rates. Those gaps get wider and wider. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I routinely failed to understand that 'simple and straightforward' would have been a much better product strategy for Lotus. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "