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" I don't think Silicon Valley understands the power of Wikipedia, how it works, or the opportunities it represents. "

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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. "

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

" 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. "

" Every year we are greeted by a host of new apps that will 'change the way we think' about ordering takeout, 'fundamentally transform' our shoe purchases, or 'revolutionize' the way we edit photos. "

" Before I started a company, I was an employee with a bad attitude. I was always felt like, bosses are stupid, and people weren't well treated. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" We are living in an era of anxiety produced by computer and communications technology. "

" 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. "

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

" Open source can propagate to fill all the nooks and crannies that people want it to fill. "

" If advertisers want to decorate their ads to increase their conversions by showing what users think, that's a good thing. "

" Bulletin boards are sort of the garage bands of cyberspace. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" If information wants to be free, then that's true everywhere, not just in information technology. "

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

" 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. "

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