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" Jazz was a bomb. That was also the low point of Mac sales. People had just written it off. "
Mitch Kapor
Point
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Off
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" There are excellent public interest grounds to have a search engine whose rankings are transparent. "
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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. "
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" Technology advances at exponential rates, and human institutions and societies do not. They adapt at much slower rates. Those gaps get wider and wider. "
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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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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Old ways of thinking die hard, particularly when they were weaned by legally enforced monopolies. "
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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. "
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" No, my family is Russian, Georgian, via Ellis Island. "
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" I actually built a tiny computer as a junior high school project. "
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" 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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" I was trying to figure out what to do next, I'd been accumulating ideas for productivity tools - software people could use every day, particularly to help organize their lives. "
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" I soon realized that the best thing I could do for the profession of human services was to get out of it. "
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Soon
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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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" The Internet, the network of networks, is growing at an exponential pace. It's growing so fast, in fact, nobody really knows how many people use the Internet. "
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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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" You can't be in the tech community... without realizing there's a big shortage of talent. "
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" I had no fear of speaking to large audiences. "
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Fear
No Fear
Had
" 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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Down
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" The computer environment is radically different today. In the 1980s, it was like the Wild West, with a lot of open territory. Now, the cowboys have moved out and the farmers have moved in. "
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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 believe in having an impact in doing things. "
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" I'd always wanted to live in San Francisco, and my circumstances never permitted it. I'm so happy I made the move. "
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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. "
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