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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" Velano Vascular has developed a simple, game-changing innovation that will improve the way medicine has been practiced for decades. "

" 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. "

" Before I started a company, I was an employee with a bad attitude. I was always felt like, bosses are stupid, and people weren't well treated. "

" For people who know both New York and the Bay Area, it is a complement to say that Oakland is San Francisco's Brooklyn. It's a complement both to Oakland and to Brooklyn. And, if you look at Brooklyn, Brooklyn is hot; Brooklyn is cool. "

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

" 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. "

" You can't be in the tech community... without realizing there's a big shortage of talent. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I soon realized that the best thing I could do for the profession of human services was to get out of it. "

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

" Computers ought to help people find their own best path through lots of textual information. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Microsoft represents the best of ourselves or the worst. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Reversing the escalation of health care costs is going to need more than legislation, yet it can be done without imposing rationing, as critics of reform fear. "

" Well, I had a lot of help from my father with the soldering and so on, and he was very good at math and was fascinated with computers, and so I was fortunate enough to have a bunch of exposure going all the way back to high school - this was in the 1960s. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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