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" 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. "

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

Mitch Kapor

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" 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

Health

" 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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" Well, I had a lot of help from my father with the soldering and so on, and he was very good at math and was fascinated with computers, and so I was fortunate enough to have a bunch of exposure going all the way back to high school - this was in the 1960s. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" When new technology in the classroom starts happening, some people get very excited and think of it as a panacea. It attracts very high amounts of money; it raises expectations, and those expectations aren't met. "

" 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. "

Mitch Kapor

Succeed

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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 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. "

" Both VisiCalc and MultiPlan were available when the IBM PC shipped in October 1981. 1-2-3 didn't hit the market until January 1983. "

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

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

" The culmination of all of that was the decision to start a company, which became Lotus, to do a product, which became 1-2-3. By the time I reached that point it had been four years, and it felt like a lifetime, but really it was kind of evolutionary. "

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

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

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

" Fundly is at the dynamic intersection of high-growth technology startups, social entrepreneurship, and the exploding world of social media. Kapor Capital is proud to back this passionate team, their product, and Fundly's impressive customer base. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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

World

Sense

" 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. "

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

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

" I was not a student of Wall Street, but I was a quick study. "

" 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. "

" Microsoft represents the best of ourselves or the worst. "