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" Life in cyberspace seems to be shaping up exactly like Thomas Jefferson would have wanted: founded on the primacy of individual liberty and a commitment to pluralism, diversity, and community. "

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" 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. "

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

Mitch Kapor

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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. "

" Fundly is at the dynamic intersection of high-growth technology startups, social entrepreneurship, and the exploding world of social media. Kapor Capital is proud to back this passionate team, their product, and Fundly's impressive customer base. "

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

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

" There are a lot of similarities between cyberspace and the frontier. It's pretty raw and primitive. I mean, you have to churn your own butter in cyberspace. You can't go down to the 7-Eleven and buy a stick of butter because it's not that well developed. "

" 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. "

" If you look at the history of other movements, whether Civil Rights or environmental rights, these are all decades-long undertakings. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Mitch Kapor

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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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" I'm like George Lucas, bringing together a creative team that will come up with a unique, well-crafted product. "

" 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. "

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