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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. "

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Old ways of thinking die hard, particularly when they were weaned by legally enforced monopolies. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I'd been a great angel investor, but professional venture capital was clearly not the right thing for me. "

" Jazz was a bomb. That was also the low point of Mac sales. People had just written it off. "

" There are excellent public interest grounds to have a search engine whose rankings are transparent. "

" I think there is widespread agreement that there is a crisis in public education. "

" 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. "

" I give Bill Gates an A for vision because, as a business person and a strategist, he's brilliant. His flaw is that his view is not informed by a humanistic or compassionate vision of how to make computers work for people. "

" 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?' "

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

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

" 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. "

" Failing to continue to support the public higher-ed system in California will have devastating long-term consequences. "

" For people who know both New York and the Bay Area, it is a complement to say that Oakland is San Francisco's Brooklyn. It's a complement both to Oakland and to Brooklyn. And, if you look at Brooklyn, Brooklyn is hot; Brooklyn is cool. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "