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

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" 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. "

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

" Failing to continue to support the public higher-ed system in California will have devastating long-term consequences. "

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

" There's a great deal of suspicion and misunderstanding about IT among practicing doctors. One hears things like, 'I don't want to be turned into a data entry clerk, and I don't want some machine between me and my patients.' "

Misunderstanding

" I actually built a tiny computer as a junior high school project. "

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

" 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 advertisers want to decorate their ads to increase their conversions by showing what users think, that's a good thing. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 accomplishment of open source is that it is the back end of the web, the invisible part, the part that you don't see as a user. "

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

" 'Silicon Valley' has come to mean the Bay Area, not just down the Peninsula. "

" Both VisiCalc and MultiPlan were available when the IBM PC shipped in October 1981. 1-2-3 didn't hit the market until January 1983. "

" 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. "

" Diversifying our tech talent pool is an imperative for the tech sector. More diverse engineers and entrepreneurs will bring about a new type of innovation that Silicon Valley has yet to see. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I've been around long enough to know that empires come and empires go, and I can't tell how long the Google empire is going to last - but I'm pretty convinced that the answer is less than forever. "