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" If information wants to be free, then that's true everywhere, not just in information technology. "
Mitch Kapor
True
Free
Technology
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Lotus's efforts around the Mac were pathetically unsuccessful, which is sad. "
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" Microsoft represents the best of ourselves or the worst. "
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" We have to examine very carefully any privacy-reducing technology. "
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Very
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Examine
" 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. "
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Pool
See
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" 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. "
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Organizing
Down
Create
" Hackers are seen as shadowy figures with superhuman powers that threaten civilization. "
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Seen
Hackers
Civilization
" Old ways of thinking die hard, particularly when they were weaned by legally enforced monopolies. "
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Hard
Ways
Thinking
" 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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" 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
" I think there is widespread agreement that there is a crisis in public education. "
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Crisis
Education
Think
" I'd been a great angel investor, but professional venture capital was clearly not the right thing for me. "
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Professional
Great
Angel
" 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. "
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Creation
World
Personal
" 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. "
Mitch Kapor
History
Possible
People
" 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
" Beware angel investors: they can be disruptive. "
Mitch Kapor
Angel
Investors
Disruptive
" I don't think Silicon Valley understands the power of Wikipedia, how it works, or the opportunities it represents. "
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Opportunities
How
Valley
" 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
" 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
" Often, the disconnect between the marketing hype around a new product and what the product actually does is astounding. "
Mitch Kapor
Around
Marketing
New
" The kind of products you envision as an entrepreneur is a function of your life experience. "
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Life
Entrepreneur
You
" If only I'd stayed on the West Coast, I might have made something of myself. "
Mitch Kapor
Myself
Made
West
" 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
" I originally invested in Dropcam because I foresaw what the company and their products could do for consumers and the industry. I've been deeply impressed with what they've done in such little time, and I'm confident that they'll continue to exceed my expectations. "
Mitch Kapor
Expectations
Time
Confident
" 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
Go
Possible
" 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. "
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Feel
People
Professional
" No, my family is Russian, Georgian, via Ellis Island. "
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Family
Island
Russian
" 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. "
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Care
More
Health