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

" 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. "

" My history is to find the next big thing early. "

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

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

" 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. "

" If only I'd stayed on the West Coast, I might have made something of myself. "

" Technology advances at exponential rates, and human institutions and societies do not. They adapt at much slower rates. Those gaps get wider and wider. "

" People are hungry for community. They're hungry for meaning in a society that is oriented around the production and consumption of consumer goods. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" We have to examine very carefully any privacy-reducing technology. "

" Open source can propagate to fill all the nooks and crannies that people want it to fill. "

" 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. "

" Human intelligence is a marvelous, subtle, and poorly understood phenomenon. There is no danger of duplicating it anytime soon. "

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

" Even though I had the talent, programming just didn't feel right. I never considered it very seriously. Some people get gratification from bending a machine to their will. I didn't. "

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

" 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 was not a student of Wall Street, but I was a quick study. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" StumbleUpon has humanized the Web and mastered a way for people to discover online content by incorporating an individual's personal preferences and recommendations of friends and like-minded people. "

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

" 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. "

" The main languages out of which web applications are built - whether it's Perl or Python or PHP or any of the other languages - those are all open source languages. So the infrastructure of the web is open source... the web as we know it is completely dependent on open source. "