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" One of the perks of being the founder is that you get to build the company in your image. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" That's why it has to be a nonprofit, because a nonprofit is required to take monies it receives and use them for the purposes for which it's chartered by the government. It can't be pocketed. "

" We have a responsibility to give people opportunities to do what they can do. It's a fundamental tenet of democratic society. Libertarians who believe in a completely minimalist state, and don't feel we have that responsibility, are harming humanity. "

" 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

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

" 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. "

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

" Every year we are greeted by a host of new apps that will 'change the way we think' about ordering takeout, 'fundamentally transform' our shoe purchases, or 'revolutionize' the way we edit photos. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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