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" In an economy where more and more value is in information - is in the bits, not the atoms, where bits can be copied essentially for free - any time you have that situation, economic schemes that rely on existing models of intellectual property laws for protection are going to do less and less well. "

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

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

" 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. "

" On a personal note, I was born in Brooklyn. My folks moved out to Long Island when I was quite young, but once a Brooklynite, always a Brooklynite. "

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

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

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

" Linden Lab's technological breakthroughs have made 'Second Life' a truly revolutionary experience. "

" Hackers are seen as shadowy figures with superhuman powers that threaten civilization. "

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

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

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" One of the perks of being the founder is that you get to build the company in your image. "

" If we're not creating an educated and skilled workforce, there is just no conceivable way that were going to be economically competitive. "

" 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. "

" 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'd always wanted to live in San Francisco, and my circumstances never permitted it. I'm so happy I made the move. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When regulations restricting competition are relaxed, nobody's market share is protected. If telephone companies can offer video programming, cable revenue will surely drop. "

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

" The kind of products you envision as an entrepreneur is a function of your life experience. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "