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" On a personal note, I was born in Brooklyn. My folks moved out to Long Island when I was quite young, but once a Brooklynite, always a Brooklynite. "

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" I'd been a great angel investor, but professional venture capital was clearly not the right thing for me. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I routinely failed to understand that 'simple and straightforward' would have been a much better product strategy for Lotus. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" Startups, in some sense, have gotten so easy to start that we are confusing two things. And what we are confusing, often, is, 'How far can you get in your first day of travel?' with, 'How long it is going to take to get up to the top of the mountain?' "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I think there is widespread agreement that there is a crisis in public education. "

" Oakland's time is coming. In fact, Oakland's time is already here. Tech is coming to Oakland, and it's terribly exciting. "

" 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. "

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

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

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