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" 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. "

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" If you can command a lot of attention, that's what is valuable, and many in the commercial ecology would like to have a piece of that attention. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" No, my family is Russian, Georgian, via Ellis Island. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" E-mail is a victim of its own success. "

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

" I had no fear of speaking to large audiences. "

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

" 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. "

" I woke up nights, worrying that Lotus was out of control - that no one would know what to do. "

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

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" 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. "