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

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" 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. "

" 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 was not a student of Wall Street, but I was a quick study. "

" 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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Often, the disconnect between the marketing hype around a new product and what the product actually does is astounding. "

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

" In an economy where more and more value is in information - is in the bits, not the atoms, where bits can be copied essentially for free - any time you have that situation, economic schemes that rely on existing models of intellectual property laws for protection are going to do less and less well. "

" When new technology in the classroom starts happening, some people get very excited and think of it as a panacea. It attracts very high amounts of money; it raises expectations, and those expectations aren't met. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Few industries have the ability to transform society like tech, yet too few companies are asking the questions or working on the problems that would create meaningful social change. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" We have to examine very carefully any privacy-reducing technology. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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