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" I had no fear of speaking to large audiences. "
Mitch Kapor
Fear
No Fear
Had
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" If information wants to be free, then that's true everywhere, not just in information technology. "
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" 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
" 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. "
Mitch Kapor
Creation
World
Personal
" Jazz was a bomb. That was also the low point of Mac sales. People had just written it off. "
Mitch Kapor
Point
People
Off
" 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. "
Mitch Kapor
Best
Which
Than
" Reversing the escalation of health care costs is going to need more than legislation, yet it can be done without imposing rationing, as critics of reform fear. "
Mitch Kapor
Care
More
Health
" 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. "
Mitch Kapor
Company
Bad
Stupid
" E-mail is a victim of its own success. "
Mitch Kapor
Own
Victim
E-Mail
" I don't think Silicon Valley understands the power of Wikipedia, how it works, or the opportunities it represents. "
Mitch Kapor
Opportunities
How
Valley
" The kind of products you envision as an entrepreneur is a function of your life experience. "
Mitch Kapor
Life
Entrepreneur
You
" I was trying to figure out what to do next, I'd been accumulating ideas for productivity tools - software people could use every day, particularly to help organize their lives. "
Mitch Kapor
People
Day
Help
" 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. "
Mitch Kapor
Shoe
Change
New
" 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
" 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. "
Mitch Kapor
Foundation
Government
Support
" 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
" The more you eliminate the inefficient use of information, the better it is for productivity. "
Mitch Kapor
Information
Use
Better
" Velano Vascular has developed a simple, game-changing innovation that will improve the way medicine has been practiced for decades. "
Mitch Kapor
Medicine
Way
Will
" My history is to find the next big thing early. "
Mitch Kapor
Big
Find
History
" 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
" Computers ought to help people find their own best path through lots of textual information. "
Mitch Kapor
Own
Best
Computers
" 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. "
Mitch Kapor
Days
Early
Passion
" I'd been a great angel investor, but professional venture capital was clearly not the right thing for me. "
Mitch Kapor
Professional
Great
Angel
" Today, in the Internet gold rush, so many people go into dot-com jobs right from school or even before finishing. Their motivation is understandable, but sometimes they just lack experience. "
Mitch Kapor
Experience
Gold
People
" I actually built a tiny computer as a junior high school project. "
Mitch Kapor
High
Tiny
School
" 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. "
Mitch Kapor
Farmers
Wild
Today
" In an economy where more and more value is in information - is in the bits, not the atoms, where bits can be copied essentially for free - any time you have that situation, economic schemes that rely on existing models of intellectual property laws for protection are going to do less and less well. "
Mitch Kapor
Information
You
Value
" 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'd always wanted to live in San Francisco, and my circumstances never permitted it. I'm so happy I made the move. "
Mitch Kapor
Live
Circumstances
Move
" One of the perks of being the founder is that you get to build the company in your image. "
Mitch Kapor
Build
Company
Get
" If advertisers want to decorate their ads to increase their conversions by showing what users think, that's a good thing. "
Mitch Kapor
A Good Thing
Good
Want