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" 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
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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. "
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" If advertisers want to decorate their ads to increase their conversions by showing what users think, that's a good thing. "
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Want
" 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. "
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" That's why it has to be a nonprofit, because a nonprofit is required to take monies it receives and use them for the purposes for which it's chartered by the government. It can't be pocketed. "
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Government
Nonprofit
" 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. "
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Go
Possible
" 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
" 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. "
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Down
Own
Mean
" The more you eliminate the inefficient use of information, the better it is for productivity. "
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Information
Use
Better
" I routinely failed to understand that 'simple and straightforward' would have been a much better product strategy for Lotus. "
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Strategy
Understand
Simple
" I soon realized that the best thing I could do for the profession of human services was to get out of it. "
Mitch Kapor
Profession
Soon
Best
" 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. "
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October
Market
Available
" 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. "
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Shoe
Change
New
" The kind of products you envision as an entrepreneur is a function of your life experience. "
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Life
Entrepreneur
You
" Startups, in some sense, have gotten so easy to start that we are confusing two things. And what we are confusing, often, is, 'How far can you get in your first day of travel?' with, 'How long it is going to take to get up to the top of the mountain?' "
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Long
You
Travel
" We are living in an era of anxiety produced by computer and communications technology. "
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Computer
Anxiety
Living
" Computers ought to help people find their own best path through lots of textual information. "
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Own
Best
Computers
" 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. "
Mitch Kapor
Nobody
Internet
Fast
" My history is to find the next big thing early. "
Mitch Kapor
Big
Find
History
" 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. "
Mitch Kapor
People
Responsibility
Society
" I think there is widespread agreement that there is a crisis in public education. "
Mitch Kapor
Crisis
Education
Think
" 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. "
Mitch Kapor
Design
Software
Needs
" 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. "
Mitch Kapor
Father
School
Help
" 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. "
Mitch Kapor
Questions
Electricity
Talk
" 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. "
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See
Winner
You
" Lotus's efforts around the Mac were pathetically unsuccessful, which is sad. "
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Around
Lotus
Unsuccessful
" Jazz was a bomb. That was also the low point of Mac sales. People had just written it off. "
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Point
People
Off
" Microsoft represents the best of ourselves or the worst. "
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Best
Microsoft
Worst
" 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. "
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Me
World
Sense
" 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. "
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Empires
Know
Google
" Technology advances at exponential rates, and human institutions and societies do not. They adapt at much slower rates. Those gaps get wider and wider. "
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Institutions
Adapt
Technology